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An upper bound on Reidemeister moves

Geometric Topology 2011-06-21 v2

Abstract

We provide an explicit upper bound on the number of Reidemeister moves required to pass between two diagrams of the same link. This leads to a conceptually simple solution to the equivalence problem for links.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1104.1882,
  title  = {An upper bound on Reidemeister moves},
  author = {Alexander Coward and Marc Lackenby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1882},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

40 pages, 14 figures; v2: very minor changes

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