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Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
March 21-23, 2002
University of Texas
Austin, TX, USA

Organizers
Cameron Gordon, John Luecke, Alan Reid

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Additivity properties of widths of knots
by
Jennifer Schultens
Emory University

We show that for any knots, K1 and K2, the width satisfies the following inequality: w(K1 # K2) >= 1/2(w(K1) + w(K2)).

Date received: January 20, 2002

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