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Let pr: F 2 × ℝ → F 2 denote the standard projection. A knot K is the oriented image of a smooth embedding of S l in F 2 × ℝ. We call K a diagram if pr: K → F 2 is an immersion.
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Fiedler, T. (2001). The space of diagrams. In: Gauss Diagram Invariants for Knots and Links. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 532. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9785-2_1
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