Iain Moffatt
Published 2006-01-11, updated 2008-09-26Version 2
We use a simple geometric argument and small cancellation properties of link groups to prove that alternating links are non-trivial. This proof uses only classic results in topology and combinatorial group theory.
Comments: Minor changes. To appear in Fundamenta Mathematicae
Journal: J. Knot Theory Ramifications 19 (2010) 821-828
CWR sequence of invariants of alternating links and its properties
Involutions of alternating links
On positive and almost alternating links
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