Rewriting Systems in Alternating Knot Groups with the Dehn Presentation
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Every tame, prime and alternating knot is equivalent to a tame, prime and alternating knot in regular position, with a common projection. In this work, we show that the Dehn presentation of the knot group of a tame, prime, alternating knot, with a regular and common projection has a finite and complete rewriting system. Although there are rules in the rewriting system with lefthand side a generator and which increase the length of the words we show that the system is terminating.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008