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A knot which is not the connected sum of two nontrivial knots is called a prime knot.
Examples include the trefoil knot and the figure-eight knot.
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Cross-references: connected sum, knot
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This is version 2 of prime knot, born on 2007-02-02, modified 2007-02-05.
Object id is 8864, canonical name is PrimeKnot.
Accessed 676 times total.
Classification:
| AMS MSC: | 57M25 (Manifolds and cell complexes :: Low-dimensional topology :: Knots and links in $S^3$) |
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