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Plans' Theorem for Links: an Application of tk Moves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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Abstract

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We use tk moves on links to prove that the first homology group with Z2-coefficients of an odd sheeted cyclic cover of S3 branched over a link is even dimensional.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1988

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