A homotopy classification of two-component spatial graphs up to neighborhood equivalence

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2015.05.041MaRDI QIDQ898508zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Atsuhiko Mizusawa, Ryo Nikkuni

Publication date 18 December 2015

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6629

zbMATH Keywords

spatial graphlinking numberhandlebody-linkdelta move

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: A neighborhood homotopy is an equivalence relation on spatial graphs which is generated by crossing changes on the same component and neighborhood equivalence. We give a complete classification of all 2-component spatial graphs up to neighborhood homotopy by the elementary divisor of a linking matrix with respect to the first homology group of each of the connected components. This also leads a kind of homotopy classification of 2-component handlebody-links.

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