Reidemeister's theorem using transversality

DOI10.1017/S0004972724000844MaRDI QIDQ6961792zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hoel Queffelec

Publication date 10 July 2025

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972724000844

zbMATH Keywords

knotsReidemeister's theoremtransversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

Review text

Reidemeister's theorem is important in classical knot theory, especially for checking a knot invariant through moves on planar diagrams. In this paper, the author reproves Reidemeister's theorem using transversality. With the tools of smooth functions, jet spaces, codimension discussions, singularities and Taylor expansion, the author can deal with knot diagrams' isotopies and the three types of Reidemeister moves. Furthermore, these ideas can be generalized to deal with embedded surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^4\).

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