Properties of minimal charts and their applications IV: Loops

Abstract

We investigate minimal charts with loops, a simple closed curve consisting of edges of label $m$ containing exactly one white vertex. We shall show that there does not exist any loop in a minimal chart with exactly seven white vertices in this paper.

34 pages, 28 figures

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