unlink
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In the mathematical field of knot theory, an unlink is a link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.
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In the mathematical field of knot theory, an unlink is a link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.
The two-component unlink, consisting of two non-interlinked unknots, is the simplest possible unlink.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “unlink” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.