English

Burnside groups and $n$-moves for links

Geometric Topology 2018-01-31 v1

Abstract

Let nn be a positive integer. M. K. Dabkowski and J. H. Przytycki introduced the nnth Burnside group of links which is preserved by nn-moves, and proved that for any odd prime pp there exist links which are not equivalent to trivial links up to pp-moves by using their ppth Burnside groups. This gives counterexamples for the Montesinos-Nakanishi 33-move conjecture. In general, it is hard to distinguish ppth Burnside groups of a given link and a trivial link. We give a necessary condition for which ppth Burnside groups are isomorphic to those of trivial links. The necessary condition gives us an efficient way to distinguish ppth Burnside groups of a given link and a trivial link. As an application, we show that there exist links, each of which is not equivalent to a trivial link up to pp-moves for any odd prime pp.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.09863,
  title  = {Burnside groups and $n$-moves for links},
  author = {Haruko A. Miyazawa and Kodai Wada and Akira Yasuhara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09863},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures

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