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Give each bounded region Ri​ a generator ai​ and give the unbounded region R0​ the identity generator. At every crossing, read the four incident regions cyclically as a,b,c,d and impose
ab−1cd−1=1.
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Using the opposite cyclic convention inverts all such relators and gives the same group. One crossing relation is redundant, leaving n generators and n−1 relators; this is the Dehn presentation of a knot group.

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