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math.GT2014
A specious unlinking strategy
Stefan Friedl, Matthias Nagel, Mark Powell
We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and t…
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Blanchfield forms and Gordian distance
Maciej Borodzik, Stefan Friedl, Mark Powell
Given a link in we will use invariants derived from the Alexander module and the Blanchfield pairing to obtain lower bounds on the Gordian distance between links, the unlinki…