English

Basic nets in the projective plane

Combinatorics 2024-12-04 v3

Abstract

The notion of basic net (called also basic polyhedron) on S2S^2 plays a central role in Conway's approach to enumeration of knots and links in S3S^3. Drobotukhina applied this approach for links in RP3RP^3 using basic nets on RP2RP^2. By a result of Nakamoto, all basic nets on S2S^2 can be obtained from a very explicit family of minimal basic nets (the nets (2×n)(2\times n)^*, n3n\ge3, in Conway's notation) by two local transformations. We prove a similar result for basic nets in RP2RP^2. We prove also that a graph on RP2RP^2 is uniquely determined by its pull-back on S3S^3 (the proof is based on Lefschetz fix point theorem).

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@article{arxiv.1307.7377,
  title  = {Basic nets in the projective plane},
  author = {S. Yu. Orevkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7377},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

14 pages, 15 figures

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