Reidemeister moves and groups

DOI10.1142/S0218216515400064zbMATH Open1325.05157arXiv1412.8691OpenAlexW1629878932MaRDI QIDQ3450792FDOQ3450792

Authors: V. O. Manturov 

Publication date: 9 November 2015

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

Abstract: Recently, the author discovered an interesting class of knot-like objects called free knots. These purely combinatorial objects are equivalence classes of Gauss diagrams modulo Reidemeister moves (the same notion in the language of words was introduced by Turaev, who thought all free knots to be trivial). As it turned out, these new objects are highly non-trivial, and even admit non-trivial cobordism classes. An important issue is the existence of invariants where a diagram evaluates to itself which makes such objects "similar" to free groups: an element has its minimal representative which "lives inside" any representative equivalent to it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8691

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zbMATH Keywords

knotReidemeister movefree knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph minors (05C83)

Cites Work

• Invariant functions on Lie groups and Hamiltonian flows of surface group representations
• Parity and projection from virtual knots to classical knots
• Parity in knot theory and graph-links
• Parity in knot theory
• Topology of words
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Cited In (4)

• ON GENERALIZED KNOT GROUPS
• Doodles and commutator identities
• On the relation between the three Reidemeister moves and the three gauge groups
• On marked braid groups

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