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The Link Component Number of Suspended Trees

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This paper provides a relationship between a geometric structure of a suspended tree and the number of link components of the associated link diagram.

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Endo, T. The Link Component Number of Suspended Trees. Graphs and Combinatorics 26, 483–490 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-010-0936-7

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