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Self \(\Delta\)-equivalence of ribbon links (English)
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9 June 1997
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The unknotting operation, or unknotting move, can be considered as an ``alternating'' version of the second Reidemeister move. The \(\Delta\)-move discussed in this paper can be considered as an ``alternating'' version of the third Reidemeister move. Therefore, applications of \(\Delta\)-moves change the knot or link types as does the unknotting move. If all 3 segments involved in a \(\Delta\)-move belong to the same component, a \(\Delta\)-move is called a self-\(\Delta\)-move. Two knots or links are said to be (self)-\(\Delta\)-equivalent if one can be transformed into another by a finite sequence of (self)-\(\Delta\)-moves. In this paper, the author proves that a ribbon link is self-\(\Delta\)-equivalent to a trivial link (Theorem). A proof is diagrammatic. As a natural consequence of the theorem, the author proposes the conjecture: If two links are cobordant in \(R\), then they are self-\(\Delta\)-equivalent.
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\(\Delta\)-move
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ribbon link
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cobordant
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