English

Virtualized Delta moves for virtual knots and links

Geometric Topology 2024-01-24 v1

Abstract

We introduce a local deformation called the virtualized Δ\Delta-move for virtual knots and links. We prove that the virtualized Δ\Delta-move is an unknotting operation for virtual knots. Furthermore we give a necessary and sufficient condition for two virtual links to be related by a finite sequence of virtualized Δ\Delta-moves.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.12506,
  title  = {Virtualized Delta moves for virtual knots and links},
  author = {Takuji Nakamura and Yasutaka Nakanishi and Shin Satoh and Kodai Wada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.12506},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

10 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:24:20.635Z