Spatial graphs with local knots

DOI10.1007/S13163-011-0072-9MaRDI QIDQ365136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi

Publication date 4 September 2013

Published in Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0479

zbMATH Keywords

local knotsprime decompositionspatial graphstopological symmetry groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: It is shown that for any locally knotted edge of a 3-connected graph in $S^3$, there is a ball that contains all of the local knots of that edge and is unique up to an isotopy setwise fixing the graph. This result is applied to the study of topological symmetry groups of graphs embedded in $S^3$.

Review text

In 1987, \textit{S. Suzuki} [``A prime decomposition theorem for a graph in the 3-sphere, in: Topology and computer science, (Atami, 1986), 259--276, Kinokuniya, Tokyo, (1987)] extended a classic result of \textit{H. Schubert} [Sitzungsber. Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturw. Kl. 1949, No.3, 50 S. (1949; Zbl 0031.28602)] to spatial graphs by providing a prime decomposition theorem for graphs in \(S^3\). This paper continues in this vein and shows that every locally knotted edge of a 3-connected spatial graph has a ball meeting the graph in an arc that contains all the local knots of that edge. It is shown that this unknotting ball is unique up to an isotopy that setwise fixes the graph. This result is applied to the study of topological symmetry groups that preserve orientation of certain graphs in \(S^3\).

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