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G^3 = Geometric Groups on the Gulf coast
May 28-29, 1999
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL, USA

Organizers
Phil Bowers, Stephen Brick, Jon Corson

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A Class of Aspherical LOTs
by
Guenther Huck
Northern Arizona University
Coauthors: Stephan Rosebrock (Paedagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe)

The question whether ribbon-disk complements or, equivalently, standard 2-complexes over labeled-oriented-tree-presentations (LOTs) are aspherical is important in knot theorie and in the context of Whitehead's asphericity conjecture. We present a class of aspherical LOTs.

Date received: May 25, 1999

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