English

Classification of links up to self $#$-move

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A pass-move and a #-move are local moves on oriented links defined by L.H. Kauffman and H. Murakami respectively. Two links are self pass-equivalent (resp. self #-equivalent) if one can be deformed into the other by pass-moves (resp. #-moves), where non of them can occur between distinct components of the link. These relations are equivalence relations on ordered oriented links and stronger than link-homotopy defined by J. Milnor. We give two complete classifications of links with arbitrarily many components up to self pass-equivalence and up to self #-equivalence respectively. So our classifications give subdivisions of link-homotopy classes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0006040,
  title  = {Classification of links up to self $#$-move},
  author = {Tetsuo Shibuya and Akira Yasuhara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0006040},
  year   = {2007}
}

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LaTeX, 9 pages with 8 figures

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