Fintushel-Stern knot

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English[edit]

The Fintushel-Stern knot

Etymology[edit]

After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".

Noun[edit]

Fintushel-Stern knot (plural Fintushel-Stern knots)

  1. The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.

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