Rectangular Seifert circles and arcs system

DOI10.1142/S0218216514500412MaRDI QIDQ2930997zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tatsuo Ando, Chuichiro Hayashi, Miwa Hayashi

Publication date 21 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6787

zbMATH Keywords

arc presentationlink diagramnumber of crossingsrectangular diagramrectangular Seifert circles and arcs system

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Abstract: Rectangular diagrams of links are link diagrams in the plane ${mathbbR}^2$ such that they are composed of vertical line segments and horizontal line segments and vertical segments go over horizontal segments at all crossings. P. R. Cromwell and I. A. Dynnikov showed that rectangular diagrams of links are useful for deciding whether a given link is split or not, and whether a given knot is trivial or not. We show in this paper that an oriented link diagram $D$ with $c(D)$ crossings and $s(D)$ Seifert circles can be deformed by an ambient isotopy of ${mathbbR}^2$ into a rectangular diagram with at most $c(D)+2s(D)$ vertical segments, and that, if $D$ is connected, at most $2c(D)+2-w(D)$ vertical segments, where $w(D)$ is a certain non-negative integer. In order to obtain these results, we show that the system of Seifert circles and arcs substituting for crossings can be deformed by an ambient isotopy of ${mathbbR}^2$ so that Seifert circles are rectangles composed of two vertical line segments and two horizontal line segments and arcs are vertical line segments, and that we can obtain a single circle from a connected link diagram by smoothing operations at the crossings regardless of orientation.

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