Satellites of an oriented surface link and their local moves

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Abstract: For an oriented surface link F in mathbbR4, we consider a satellite construction of a surface link, called a 2-dimensional braid over F, which is in the form of a covering over F. We introduce the notion of an m-chart on a surface diagram pi(F)subsetmathbbR3 of F, which is a finite graph on pi(F) satisfying certain conditions and is an extended notion of an m-chart on a 2-disk presenting a surface braid. A 2-dimensional braid over F is presented by an m-chart on pi(F). It is known that two surface links are equivalent if and only if their surface diagrams are related by a finite sequence of ambient isotopies of mathbbR3 and local moves called Roseman moves. We show that Roseman moves for surface diagrams with m-charts can be well-defined.


The author studies satellites of oriented surface links in \({\mathbb R}^4\). A surface link in \({\mathbb R}^4\) is represented by its diagram in \({\mathbb R}^3\), which is unique up the equivalence relation generated by the Roseman moves [\textit{D. Roseman}, Banach Cent. Publ. 42, 347--380 (1998; Zbl 0906.57010)]. The author introduces the notion of a braid over a surface which has a graphical representation called an \(m\)-chart. The main result of the paper states that the Roseman moves for a surface diagram with \(m\)-charts are well defined if several new local moves are added to the list of the original Roseman moves.











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