THE CONWAY FUNCTION OF A SPLICE

We give a closed formula for the Conway function of a splice in terms of the Conway function of its splice components. As corollaries, we refine and generalize results of Seifert, Torres and Sumners-Woods.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 57M25

KNOT SINGULARITIES OF HARMONIC MORPHISMS

A harmonic morphism defined on $\mathbb{R}^3$ with values in a Riemann surface is characterized in terms of a complex analytic curve in the complex surface of straight lines. We show how, to a certain family of complex curves, the singular set of the corresponding harmonic morphism has an isolated component consisting of a continuously embedded knot.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 57M25. Secondary 57M12; 58E20