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Topological symmetry groups and mapping class groups for spatial graphs

Geometric Topology 2012-06-22 v2

Abstract

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the mapping class group of the pair of the 3-sphere and a graph embedded in it to be isomorphic to the topological symmetry group of the embedded graph.

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@article{arxiv.1111.2668,
  title  = {Topological symmetry groups and mapping class groups for spatial graphs},
  author = {Sangbum Cho and Yuya Koda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.2668},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures; minor changes, typos corrected; to appear in Michigan Mathematical Journal

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