Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 18, issue 6 (2018)

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Alternating links have representativity $2$

Thomas Kindred

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 18 (2018) 3339–3362

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2018.18.3339

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