A linklessly embeddable graph is a graph having the property that there exists an embedding in three dimensions that does not contain a nontrivial
link. A graph is linklessly embeddable iff
it does not contain one of the seven Petersen
family graphs as a forbidden minor (Robertson
et al. 1993).
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