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Genus-zero links with prescribed knots as components
Raphael Appenzeller, José Pedro Quintanilha
We prove that any finite collection of at least three isotopy classes of knots in a 3-manifold is realizable as the components of a genus-zero link in , provided that an obv…
All knots are trivial: a "proof" by sleight of hand
Raphael Appenzeller, José Pedro Quintanilha
We take a close look at a classical magic trick performed with a string, where a trivial knot is seemingly isotoped into a trefoil, and generalize it to a family of magic tricks fo…
Semisimple algebraic groups over real closed fields
Raphael Appenzeller
We give a self-contained introduction to linear algebraic and semialgebraic groups over real closed fields, and we generalize several key results about semisimple Lie groups to alg…
Generalized affine buildings for semisimple algebraic groups over real closed fields
Raphael Appenzeller
We use real algebraic geometry to construct an affine -building associated to the -points of a semisimple algebraic group, where is a valued real cl…