A classification of generic curves on oriented surfaces

MaRDI QIDQ1264901zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. B. Sosinskiĭ

Publication date 24 November 1998

Published in Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

cellular embeddingchord diagramcombinatorial mapGauss wordgeneric curve on a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Review text

A generic curve in a closed oriented surface is an equivalence class of smooth self-transverse immersions \(S^1\to F\) where \(F\) is an oriented closed surface and where two such immersions \(f:S^1\to F\) and \(f':S^1\to F'\) are considered equivalent if there exist orientation preserving diffeomorphisms \(\alpha:S^1\to S^1\) and \(\beta:F\to F'\) such that \(f'=\beta f\alpha\). The generic curve represented by \(f:S^1\to F\) is said to be cellular if all components of \(F-f(S^1)\) are open disks. With every immersion \(f:S^1\to F\) as above, having \(n\) double points, say, the author associates the oriented chord diagram consisting of the circle \(S^1\) with \(n\) (abstract) oriented chords added: each chord joins two distinct points \(x',x\) in \(S^1\) such that \(f(x')=f(x)\), and the orientation of the chord depends on the way, orientationwise, the two ``branches of the curve meet at \(f(x')\). Then he explains the opposite construction, i.e.\ one that produces a cellular generic curve from an oriented chord diagram, and proves that in this way we obtain a bijective correspondence between cellular generic curves in oriented closed surfaces and isomorphism classes of oriented chord diagrams. Finally the relation of generic curves (or chord diagrams) to two kinds of classical objects, Gauss words and combinatorial maps, is pointed out.

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