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Property P


A knot having the property that no surgery could possibly yield a counterexample to the Poincaré conjecture is said to satisfy Property P (Adams 1994, p. 262).


See also

P-Problem, P Versus NP Problem, Poincaré Conjecture

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References

Adams, C. C. The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994.

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Property P

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Property P." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PropertyP.html

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