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Any link has a diagram with only triangles and quadrilaterals

  • Reiko Shinjo,
  • Kokoro Tanaka

摘要

A link diagram can be considered as a 4-valent graph embedded in the 2-sphere and divides the sphere into complementary regions. In this paper, we show that any link has a diagram with only triangles and quadrilaterals. This extends previous results shown by the authors and C. Adams.