An application of the fundamental group

Andrei Teleman (1)

1 UniBuc - University of Bucharest

We determine the fundamental group of the complement of two circles linked n times in R3 and we prove that for different values of n the corresponding complements have nonisomorphic fundamental groups.

Mots clés: knots; links; fundamental group

Domaines: Topologie géométrique [math.GT]

Andrei Teleman. An application of the fundamental group. Studii şi Cercetări Matematice, 1983, 35 (2), pp.147-150. ⟨hal-00881783⟩