The Ranks of the Groups of Links
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The group of links in codimension greater than two is the group of isotopy classes of smooth embeddings 
, where 
are positive integers. A link is primary, if it becomes trivial after removing any of its components. This application computes the rank of the group of primary links of given dimensions 
.
Contributed by: Mikhail Skopenkov (May 2011)
(Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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This application is based on the formula given in [1].
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[1] D. Crowley, S. C. Ferry, and M. Skopenkov, "The Rational Classification of Links of Codimension > 2." (May 2011) http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sferry/ps/RCL24-MS.pdf.
[2] A. Haefliger, "Differentiable Links," Topology, 1, 1962 pp. 241–244.
[3] V. Nezhinsky, "Some Computations in Higher Dimensional Link Theory," Siberian Mathematical Journal, 24(4), 1982 pp. 104–115 (in Russian).
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Published: May 23 2011
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