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On Free Knots

Geometric Topology 2009-02-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that for some knot-like objects one can easily recognize non-equivalence w.r.t. all Reidemeister moves by studying some equivalence classes modulo only 2nd Reidemeister moves. There are applications to virtual knots, graph-links and looped graphs.

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@article{arxiv.0901.2214,
  title  = {On Free Knots},
  author = {Vassily Olegovich Manturov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2214},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 11 Figures

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