Chart descriptions of regular braided surfaces
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Chart descriptions of regular braided surfaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 1378.57035
author: Seiichi Kamada
author: Takao Matumoto
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: 01668641-230-218.pdf
review text: The paper under review is in the PL category. The authors investigate braided surfaces, continuing work of the first author. A surface braid is a properly embedded surface \(F\) in \(D_1^2 \times D_2^2\) such that the second projection \(\pi : D_1^2 \times D_2^2 \to D_2^2\) restricted to \(F\) is a branched covering map of \(F\), and \(\partial F \subset \partial (D_1^2 \times D_2^2)\) is the standard unlink (\(n\) points \(\times S^1\)). The previously introduced graphical method called ``chart description'' was useful in describing so called simple and embedded braided surfaces. This paper generalizes the chart description method to make it applicable to more general braided surfaces, so called regular braided surfaces (for each singular value there exists exactly one singular point). Then any regular braided surface is described by a regular chart description. Conversely, if a braided surface is described by a regular chart, then it is a regular braided surface. All simple braided surfaces are regular.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57Q45
zbMATH DE Number: 6778198
zbMATH Keywords: braided surface
zbMATH Keywords: chart description
zbMATH Keywords: regular braided surfaces
zbMATH Keywords: regular chart
reviewed by: Ivan Ivanšić
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2749239750
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DOI: 10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.08.034
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6778198