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The conjugacy problem for the group of any tame alternating knot is solvable. (English) Zbl 0243.20036

##### MSC:
 20F10 Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) 20F05 Generators, relations, and presentations of groups 20F34 Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) 57M05 Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus 57M25 Knots and links in the $$3$$-sphere (MSC2010) 03D40 Word problems, etc. in computability and recursion theory
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