Dehn presentation of a knot group

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Dehn presentation of a knot group by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
Give every region of a knot diagram a generator and set the generator of the unbounded region to the identity. At a crossing, reading the four incident regions cyclically gives a relation , with the cyclic order reversed if the opposite convention is chosen. These relations form the Dehn presentation of the knot group.

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