06-1350/Class Notes for Tuesday October 10

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Question. Can you embed a trinion (a.k.a. a sphere with three holes, a pair of pants, or a band theta graph) in ${\mathbb R}^3$ so that each boundary component would be unknotted yet each pair of boundary components would be knotted?

Plastic trinions