Primeness of alternating virtual links

arXiv2210.03225MaRDI QIDQ6413151FDOQ6413151

Authors: Thomas Kindred 

Publication date: 6 October 2022

Abstract: The usual notion of primeness for virtual links does not correspond to the notion of primeness typically found in the literature on links in thickened surfaces. We compare these and related notions (split, stabilized, irreducible). Our main result, generalizing a classical result of Menasco, is that an alternating virtual diagram $V$ represents a prime virtual link unless $V$ is "obviously" nonprime. (Adams et al proved a related result.) We also introduce "lassos" for virtual link diagrams and describe how to use lassos to determine by inspection whether or not an alternating virtual diagram is weakly prime, pairwise prime, or nonsplit. This is a companion paper to $extitThevirtualflypingtheorem$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

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