The Reidemeister graph is a complete knot invariant

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.643MaRDI QIDQ2175876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Agnese Barbensi, Daniele Celoria

Publication date 30 April 2020

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03313

zbMATH Keywords

complete knot invariantgraphknot diagramsknots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: We describe two locally finite graphs naturally associated to each knot type K, called Reidemeister graphs. We determine several local and global properties of these graphs and prove that in one case the graph-isomorphism type is a complete knot invariant up to mirroring. Lastly, we introduce another object, relating the Reidemeister and Gordian graphs, and determine some of its properties.

Review text

This paper defines a locally finite graph for each classical knot and proves that its graph-isomorphism type is a complete knot invariant up to mirroring. Minimizing reliance on nontrivial tools, the authors observe that their proof of completeness ``is substantially more elementary, and self-contained than those of others for the previously known complete invariants.

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