English

Cubulated moves and discrete knots

Geometric Topology 2013-07-30 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we prove than given two cubic knots K1K_1, K2K_2 in R3\mathbb{R}^3, they are isotopic if and only if one can pass from one to the other by a finite sequence of cubulated moves. These moves are analogous to the Reidemeister moves for classical tame knots. We use the fact that a cubic knot is determined by a cyclic permutation of contiguous vertices of the Z3\mathbb{Z}^3-lattice (with some restrictions), to describe some of the classic invariants and properties of the knots in terms of such cyclic permutations, by projecting onto a plane such that it is injective when restricted to the Z3\mathbb{Z}^3-lattice and the image of the Z3\mathbb{Z}^3-lattice is dense.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.2133,
  title  = {Cubulated moves and discrete knots},
  author = {Gabriela Hinojosa and Alberto Verjosvky and Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.2133},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

40 pages, 31 figures

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