{
  "id": "math/0601242",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-01-11T09:40:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-09-26T15:12:33.000Z",
  "title": "A new proof that alternating links are non-trivial",
  "authors": [
    "Iain Moffatt"
  ],
  "comment": "Minor changes. To appear in Fundamenta Mathematicae",
  "journal": "J. Knot Theory Ramifications 19 (2010) 821-828",
  "doi": "10.1142/S0218216510008157",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2008-09-26T15:12:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "alternating links",
      "non-trivial",
      "simple geometric argument",
      "combinatorial group theory",
      "small cancellation properties"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2006math......1242M"
    }
  }
}