The half-twisted splice operation on reduced knot projections
Geometric Topology
2012-08-07 v1
Abstract
We show that any nontrivial reduced knot projection can be obtained from a trefoil projection by a finite sequence of half-twisted splice operations and their inverses such that the result of each step in the sequence is reduced.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.0989,
title = {The half-twisted splice operation on reduced knot projections},
author = {Noboru Ito and Ayaka Shimizu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0989},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
14 pages, 19 figures, to be published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications