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Triviality of the Conway–Gordon Function ω 2 for Spatial Complete Graphs

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We prove that ω 2(G n ) = 0 for any spatial complete graph G n with n ≥ 7 vertices, where ω 2 is the function introduced by J.Y. Conway and C. McA. Gordon in 1983.

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Correspondence to A. A. Kazakov.

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Translated from Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta: Seriya Matematika, Mekhanika, Informatika 13, No. 2, 2013, pp. 51–60.

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Kazakov, A.A., Korablev, P.G. Triviality of the Conway–Gordon Function ω 2 for Spatial Complete Graphs. J Math Sci 203, 490–498 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-014-2152-0

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