Any nontrivial knot projection with no triple chords has a monogon or a bigon

MaRDI QIDQ5156484zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Noboru Ito, Yusuke Takimura

Publication date 18 October 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10133, http://topology.nipissingu.ca/tp/restricted/v60/tp60003.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

knot projectionsReidemeister moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A generic immersion of a circle into a $2$-sphere is often studied as a projection of a knot; it is called a knot projection. A chord diagram is a configuration of paired points on a circle; traditionally, the two points of each pair are connected by a chord. A triple chord is a chord diagram consisting of three chords, each of which intersects the other chords. Every knot projection obtains a chord diagram in which every pair of points corresponds to the inverse image of a double point. In this paper, we show that for any knot projection $P$, if its chord diagram contains no triple chord, then there exists a finite sequence from $P$ to a simple closed curve such that the sequence consists of flat Reidemeister moves, each of which decreases $1$-gons or strong $2$-gons, where a strong $2$-gon is a $2$-gon oriented by an orientation of $P$.

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