Braid presentation of spatial graphs

DOI10.3836/TJM/1296483485MaRDI QIDQ632499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ken Kanno, Kouki Taniyama

Publication date 25 March 2011

Published in Tokyo Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1511

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We define braid presentation of edge-oriented spatial graphs as a natural generalization of braid presentation of oriented links. We show that every spatial graph has a braid presentation. For an oriented link it is known that the braid index is equal to the minimal number of Seifert circles. We show that an analogy does not hold for spatial graphs.

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