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Spatial Graphs with Local Knots

Geometric Topology 2015-03-17 v2

Abstract

It is shown that for any locally knotted edge of a 3-connected graph in S3S^3, there is a ball that contains all of the local knots of that edge and is unique up to an isotopy setwise fixing the graph. This result is applied to the study of topological symmetry groups of graphs embedded in S3S^3.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1010.0479,
  title  = {Spatial Graphs with Local Knots},
  author = {Erica Flapan and Blake Mellor and Ramin Naimi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0479},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures; in v. 2 the proof of Theorem 1 has been clarified, and other minor revisions have been made

R2 v1 2026-06-21T16:23:09.621Z