On ribbon graphs and virtual links

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2022.103520MaRDI QIDQ2136201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scott Baldridge, William Rushworth, Louis Kauffman

Publication date 10 May 2022

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04238

zbMATH Keywords

ribbon graphvirtual link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

Abstract: We introduce a new equivalence relation on decorated ribbon graphs, and show that its equivalence classes directly correspond to virtual links. We demonstrate how this correspondence can be used to convert any invariant of virtual links into an invariant of ribbon graphs, and vice versa.

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