Unknotting singular surface braids by crossing changes
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Unknotting singular surface braids by crossing changes
zbMATH Open document ID: 1143.57011
author: Masahide Iwakiri
published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2008-04-16T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1205503556
review text: A singular surface link is a closed oriented immersed surface \(S \subset \mathbb R^4\) whose singularities are transverse double points. Moreover, \(S\) is called a singular surface braid if it is contained in a tubular neighborhood of the standard sphere \(S^2 \subset \mathbb R^4\), in such a way that the canonical projection \(S \to S^2\) is a simple branched covering (up to desingularization). It is known that any singular surface link is isotopic to a singular surface braid. A crossing change consists in creating/deleting two opposite double points, by a finger move along an arc between different sheets of a singular surface braid, producing in this way another singular surface braid. The main result of the paper is an unknotting theorem for singular surface braids in terms of crossing changes. The proof is based on a diagrammatic argument on the chart presentation of singular surface braids. This provides a new approach to an analogous unknotting theorem for singular surface links by \textit{C. A. Giller} [Ill. J. Math. 26, 591--631 (1982; Zbl 0476.57009)]. A second result concerns the finite type invariants of singular surface braids associated with crossing changes. It says that these invariants are completely determined by the number of sheets, the Euler characteristic and the number of (signed) double points for each component.
reviewed by: Riccardo Piergallini
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57Q45
zbMATH DE Number: 5264713
zbMATH Keywords: singular surface link
zbMATH Keywords: singular surface braid
zbMATH Keywords: crossing change
zbMATH Keywords: unknotting
zbMATH Keywords: finite type invariant
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