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Gauss diagrams of real and virtual knots in the solid torus

Geometric Topology 2012-01-30 v1

Abstract

We define a new kind of Gauss diagrams to describe knots in the solid torus with projections in the annulus. We see that it provides an efficient tool for showing that a knot diagram can be fully recovered from its decorated Gauss diagram, and we use it to establish a characterization of the decorated Gauss diagrams of closed braids.

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@article{arxiv.1201.5859,
  title  = {Gauss diagrams of real and virtual knots in the solid torus},
  author = {Arnaud Mortier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.5859},
  year   = {2012}
}

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19 pages, 15 figures