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Several authors have recently studied virtual knots and links because they admit invariants arising from R-matrices.We prove that every virtual link is uniquely represented by a link L ⊂ S ×I in a thickened, compact, oriented surface S such that the link complement (S × I) \ L has no essential vertical cylinder.
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