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Unknottability of spatial graphs by region crossing changes

Geometric Topology 2020-10-06 v2

Abstract

A region crossing change is a local transformation on spatial graph diagrams switching the over/under relations at all the crossings on the boundary of a region. In this paper, we show that a spatial graph of a planar graph is unknottable by region crossing changes if and only if the spatial graph is non-Eulerian or is Eulerian and proper.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.12119,
  title  = {Unknottability of spatial graphs by region crossing changes},
  author = {Yukari Funakoshi and Kenta Noguchi and Ayaka Shimizu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12119},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures

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