Generalized n-colorings of links
Volume 42 / 1998
Banach Center Publications 42 (1998), 381-394
DOI: 10.4064/-42-1-381-394
Abstract
The notion of an (n,r)-coloring for a link diagram generalizes the idea of an n-coloring introduced by R. H. Fox. For any positive integer n the various (n,r)-colorings of a diagram for an oriented link l correspond in a natural way to the periodic points of the representation shift $Φ_{
