Gordian complexes of knots and virtual knots given by region crossing changes and arc shift moves

DOI10.1142/S0218216520420080zbMATH Open1458.57005arXiv1908.05382MaRDI QIDQ3388018FDOQ3388018

Authors: A. Gill, M. Prabhakar, Andrei Vesnin 

Publication date: 8 January 2021

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

Abstract: Gordian complex of knots was defined by Hirasawa and Uchida as the simplicial complex whose vertices are knot isotopy classes in $mathbb{S}^3$. Later Horiuchi and Ohyama defined Gordian complex of virtual knots using $v$-move and forbidden moves. In this paper we discuss Gordian complex of knots by region crossing change and Gordian complex of virtual knots by arc shift move. Arc shift move is a local move in the virtual knot diagram which results in reversing orientation locally between two consecutive crossings. We show the existence of an arbitrarily high dimensional simplex in both the Gordian complexes, i.e., by region crossing change and by the arc shift move. For any given knot (respectively, virtual knot) diagram we construct an infinite family of knots (respectively, virtual knots) such that any two distinct members of the family have distance one by region crossing change (respectively, arc shift move). We show that that the constructed virtual knots have the same affine index polynomial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05382

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zbMATH Keywords

virtual knotGordian complexlocal moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

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