Splittings of Tangles and Spatial Graphs

MaRDI QIDQ6423614zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Erica Flapan, Hugh Nelson Howards

Publication date 17 January 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: Menasco proved the surprising result that if $G$ is a reduced, alternating, connected projection of a link $L$ and $G$ is prime then $L$ is prime. This result has been generalized to other classes of links, tangles, and spatial graphs. We draw attention to some issues with previous splitting results about tangles and spatial graphs, and obtain new more general results for tangles and spatial graphs.

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