Making curves minimally crossing by Reidemeister moves (Q1369656)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1076875
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    Making curves minimally crossing by Reidemeister moves
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1076875

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      Making curves minimally crossing by Reidemeister moves (English)
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      25 November 1997
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      A regular system of curves on a surface \(S\) is a continuous map \(C:kS^1\to S\) which has no triple points and which is an embedding off a finite set of double points. The main result of this paper is that any such regular system can be transformed to a regular system with minimal intersections and self-intersections by a series of ``Reidemeister'' moves. Moreover, this can be implemented via a finite algorithm.
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      intersection
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      Reidemeister move
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      surface
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      regular system of curves
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