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We characterize which automorphisms of an arbitrary complete bipartite graph $K_{n,m}$ can be induced by a homeomorphism of some embedding of the graph in $S^3$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Erica Flapan , Nicole Lehle , Blake Mellor , Matt Pittluck , Xan Vongsathorn

The {\em topological symmetry group} of an embedding $\Gamma$ of an abstract graph $\gamma$ in $S^3$ is the group of automorphisms of $\gamma$ which can be realized by homeomorphisms of the pair $(S^3, \Gamma)$. These groups are motivated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Blake Mellor , Robin Wilson

We prove that for every closed, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold, there exists an alternating group A_n which is not the topological symmetry group of any graph embedded in the manifold. We also show that for every finite group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Erica Flapan , Harry Tamvakis

The {\em topological symmetry group} of an embedding $\Gamma$ of an abstract graph $\gamma$ in $S^3$ is the group of automorphisms of $\gamma$ which can be realized by homeomorphisms of the pair $(S^3, \Gamma)$. These groups are motivated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Deion Elzie , Samir Fridhi , Blake Mellor , Daniel Silva , Robin Wilson

In this paper, all graphs are assumed to be finite. For $s\geq 1$ and a graph $\G$, if for every pair of isomorphic connected induced subgraphs on at most $s$ vertices there exists an automorphism of $\G$ mapping the first to the second,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Jinxin Zhou

In [36, Section 8], the present author proposed the hypergraph obstruction for the existence of k-regular embeddings. In this paper, we develop the hypergraph obstruction concretely and give some homological obstructions for the k-regular…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Shiquan Ren

We prove that every simplicial automorphism of the free splitting graph of a free group of at least rank 3 is induced by an outer automorphism of the free group.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-22 Javier Aramayona , Juan Souto

This work is the extension of the results by the author in [7] and [6] for low-genus surfaces. Let $S$ be an orientable, connected surface of finite topological type, with genus $g \leq 2$, empty boundary, and complexity at least $2$; as a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jesús Hernández Hernández

Let $N$ be a compact, connected, nonorientable surface of genus $g$ with $n$ boundary components. Let $\lambda$ be a simplicial map of the complex of curves, $\mathcal{C}(N)$, on $N$ which satisfies the following: $[a]$ and $[b]$ are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Elmas Irmak

The topological symmetry group $\mathrm{TSG}(\Gamma)$ of an embedding $\Gamma$ of a graph in $S^3$ is the subgroup of the automorphism group of the graph which is induced by homeomorphisms of $(S^3,\Gamma)$. If we restrict to orientation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 A. Álvarez , E. Flapan , M. Hunnell , J. Hutchens , E. Lawrence , P. Lewis , C. Price , R. Vanderpool

It is shown that for any locally knotted edge of a 3-connected graph in $S^3$, 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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Erica Flapan , Blake Mellor , Ramin Naimi

We introduce the notion of induced automorphisms in order to state a criterion to determine whether a given automorphism on a manifold of $K3^{[n]}$ type is, in fact, induced by an automorphism of a $K3$ surface and the manifold is a moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Giovanni Mongardi , Malte Wandel

We give a general construction leading to different non-isomorphic families $\Gamma_{n,q}(\K)$ of connected $q$-regular semisymmetric graphs of order $2q^{n+1}$ embedded in $\PG(n+1,q)$, for a prime power $q=p^h$, using the linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-10 Philippe Cara , Sara Rottey , Geertrui Van de Voorde

A \emph{self-complementary} graph is a graph isomorphic to its complement. An isomorphism between $G$ and its complement, viewed as a permutation of $V(G)$, is then called an \emph{antimorphism}. A \emph{skew partition} of $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Nicolas Trotignon

We prove that a graph is intrinsically linked in an arbitrary 3-manifold M if and only if it is intrinsically linked in S^3. Also, assuming the Poincare Conjecture, we prove that a graph is intrinsically knotted in M if and only if it is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-17 Erica Flapan , Hugh Howards , Don Lawrence , Blake Mellor

Let $H$ be a complex Hilbert space. Consider the ortho-Grassmann graph $\Gamma^{\perp}_{k}(H)$ whose vertices are $k$-dimensional subspaces of $H$ (projections of rank $k$) and two subspaces are connected by an edge in this graph if they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Mark Pankov , Krzysztof Petelczyc , Mariusz Zynel

In this paper, we consider the automorphisms of fine curve graphs restricted to continuously $k$-differentiable curves. We show that for closed surfaces with genus at least 2, they are induced by homeomorphisms of the surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Katherine Williams Booth

We consider constrained variants of graph homomorphisms such as embeddings, monomorphisms, full homomorphisms, surjective homomorpshims, and locally constrained homomorphisms. We also introduce a new variation on this theme which derives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Yangjing Long

We prove that there is an algorithm which determines whether or not a given 2-polyhedron can be embedded into some integral homology 3-sphere. This is a corollary of the following main result. Let $M$ be a compact connected orientable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Dmitry Tonkonog

For a given spatial graph $\mathcal{G} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$, we would like to find a closed orientable surface $\mathcal{S}$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in which $\mathcal{G}$ is cellular embedded. However, for general $\mathcal{G}$ this is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Senja Barthel , Fabio Buccoliero
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