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The boundaries of dipole graphs and the complete bipartite graphs K_{2,n}

Geometric Topology 2014-09-11 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study the Seifert surfaces of a link by relating the embeddings of graphs by using induced graphs. As applications, we prove that every link LL is the boundary of an oriented surface which is obtained from a graph embedding of a complete bipartite graph K2,nK_{2,n}, where all voltage assignments on the edges of K2,nK_{2,n} are 0. We also provide an algorithm to construct such a graph diagram of a given link and demonstrate the algorithm by dealing with the links 4124_1^2 and 525_2.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3829,
  title  = {The boundaries of dipole graphs and the complete bipartite graphs K_{2,n}},
  author = {Dongseok Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3829},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, 12 figures