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In this chapter, we discuss how to construct a new link from given links by various compositions. Then we discuss decompositions, which are the inverse operations of compositions. After that, compositions of tangles are discussed. Throughout this chapter, links are understood to be links in S3.
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Kawauchi, A. (1996). Compositions and decompositions. In: A Survey of Knot Theory. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9227-8_4
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