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Homotopy theories of colored links and spatial graphs

Geometric Topology 2023-12-21 v1

Abstract

Two links are called link-homotopic if they are transformed to each other by a sequence of self-crossing changes and ambient isotopies. The notion of link-homotopy is generalized to spatial graphs and it is called component-homotopy. The link-homotopy classes were classified by Habegger and Lin through the classification of the link-homotopy classes of string links. In this paper, we classify colored string links up to colored link-homotopy by using the Habegger-Lin theory. Moreover, we classify colored links and spatial graphs up to colored link-homotopy and component-homotopy respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2312.12822,
  title  = {Homotopy theories of colored links and spatial graphs},
  author = {Yuka Kotorii and Atsuhiko Mizusawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12822},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 18 figures