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| Braid length | 2 |
|---|---|
| Braid no. | 2 |
| Crossing no. | 2 |
| Hyperbolic volume | 0 |
| Linking no. | 1 |
| Stick no. | 6 |
| Unknotting no. | 1 |
| Conway notation | [2] |
| A–B notation | 22 1 |
| Thistlethwaite | L2a1 |
| Last / Next | L0 / L4a1 |
| Other | |
| alternating, torus, fibered | |
In mathematical knot theory, the Hopf link is the simplest nontrivial link with more than one component.[1] It consists of two circles linked together exactly once,[2] and is named after Heinz Hopf.[3]
- ^ Adams, Colin Conrad (2004), The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots, American Mathematical Society, p. 151, ISBN 9780821836781.
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