THE PLANETARY PROBLEM .2.

Authors
Citation
G. Cairns et Dm. Elton, THE PLANETARY PROBLEM .2., Journal of knot theory and its ramifications, 5(2), 1996, pp. 137-144
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics, Pure",Mathematics
ISSN journal
02182165
Volume
5
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
137 - 144
Database
ISI
SICI code
0218-2165(1996)5:2<137:TPP.>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
C. F. Gauss gave a necessary condition for a word to be the intersecti on sequence of a closed normal planar curve and he gave an example whi ch showed that his condition was not sufficient. Since then several au thors have given algorithmic solutions to this problem. In a previous paper, along the lines of Gauss's original condition, we gave a necess ary and sufficient condition for the planarity of ''signed'' Gauss wor ds. In this present paper we give a solution to the planarity problem for unsigned Gauss words.