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Symmetric knots and the cabling conjecture

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Dedicated to Professor G. Nöbeling on his eightyfifth birthday

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Luft, E., Zhang, X. Symmetric knots and the cabling conjecture. Math. Ann. 298, 489–496 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01459747

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