An algorithm for determining the simplicity of (i,j)-curves on a surface

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Authors Masahira Homma

Publication date 25 September 2006

Published in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

punctured surfacesimple curvewinding number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree, winding number (55M25) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Review text

In [Math. Ann. 196, 218--249 (1972; Zbl 0221.57001) and ibid. 199, 131--153 (1972; Zbl 0231.57002)], \textit{D. R. J. Chillingworth} studied his winding numbers on surfaces to establish an algorithm for determining whether a given element of the fundamental group of a surface can be represented by simple closed curves. In the paper under review, the author extends these results to the homotopy classes of open curves on a punctured surface. His strategy is to construct a double curve of a given open curve and to apply Chillingworth's result to the closed curve.

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