Back Baula de Hopf Catalan Hopf-Verschlingung German Eslabón de Hopf Spanish Entrelacs de Hopf French 호프 연환 Korean Hopf-schakel Dutch Splot Hopfa Polish Enlace de Hopf Portuguese Зацепление Хопфа Russian Зачеплення Гопфа Ukrainian

Hopf link

Braid length2
Braid no.2
Crossing no.2
Hyperbolic volume0
Linking no.1
Stick no.6
Unknotting no.1
Conway notation[2]
A–B notation22
1
ThistlethwaiteL2a1
Last / NextL0 / L4a1
Other
alternating, torus, fibered
Skein relation for the Hopf link.

In mathematical knot theory, the Hopf link is the simplest nontrivial link with more than one component.[1] It consists of two circles linked together exactly once,[2] and is named after Heinz Hopf.[3]

  1. ^ Adams, Colin Conrad (2004), The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots, American Mathematical Society, p. 151, ISBN 9780821836781.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ks98 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ps97 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Developed by StudentB