Realizing exterior Cromwell moves on rectangular diagrams by Reidemeister moves

DOI10.1142/S0218216514500230zbMATH Open1300.57007arXiv1403.0209MaRDI QIDQ2878656FDOQ2878656

Authors: Tatsuo Ando, Chuichiro Hayashi, Yuki Nishikawa 

Publication date: 4 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If a rectangular diagram represents the trivial knot, then it can be deformed into the trivial rectangular diagram with only four edges by a finite sequence of merge operations and exchange operations, without increasing the number of edges, which was shown by I. A. Dynnikov. Using this, Henrich and Kauffman gave an upper bound for the number of Reidemeister moves needed for unknotting a knot diagram of the trivial knot. However, exchange or merge moves on the top and bottom pairs of edges of rectangular diagrams are not considered in the proof. In this paper, we show that there is a rectangular diagram of the trivial knot which needs such an exchange move for being unknotted, and study upper bound of the number of Reidemeister moves needed for realizing such an exchange or merge move.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0209

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zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister moveexchange moverectangular diagram

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