Cubic graphs induced by bridge trisections

DOI10.4310/MRL.2023.V30.N4.A8MaRDI QIDQ6131212zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeffrey Meier, Abigail Thompson, Alexander Zupan

Publication date 4 April 2024

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07280

zbMATH Keywords

1-skeleton of a bridge trisectioncrosscap summationtubing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15)

Abstract: Every embedded surface $mathcalK$ in the 4-sphere admits a bridge trisection, a decomposition of $(S^4,mathcalK)$ into three simple pieces. In this case, the surface $mathcalK$ is determined by an embedded 1-complex, called the $extit1-skeleton$ of the bridge trisection. As an abstract graph, the 1-skeleton is a cubic graph $Gamma$ that inherits a natural Tait coloring, a 3-coloring of the edge set of $Gamma$ such that each vertex is incident to edges of all three colors. In this paper, we reverse this association: We prove that every Tait-colored cubic graph is isomorphic to the 1-skeleton of a bridge trisection corresponding to an unknotted surface. When the surface is nonorientable, we show that such an embedding exists for every possible normal Euler number. As a corollary, every tri-plane diagram for a knotted surface can be converted to a tri-plane diagram for an unknotted surface via crossing changes and interior Reidemeister moves.

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