On Free Knots and Links
On Free Knots and Links
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2009
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V. Manturov
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V. Manturov
AbstractBoth classical and virtual knots arise as formal Gauss diagrams modulo some abstract movescorresponding to Reidemeister moves. If we forget about both over/under crossings structure andwrithe numbers of knots modulo the same Reidemeister moves, we get a dramatic simplificationof virtual knots, which kills all classical knots. However, many virtual knots survive after thissimplification.We construct invariants of these objects and present their applications to minimality problemsof virtual knots as well as some questions related to graph-links.One can easily generalize these results for the orientable case and apply them for solvingnon-invertibility problems.The main idea behind these invariants is some geometrical construction which reduces thegeneral equivalence to the equivalence only modulo Reidemeister - 2 move.This paper is a sequel of the paper [5]. 1 Introduction In [5], for a certain class objects (a terrific simplification of virtual knots) we proved a theoremthat the equivalence questions of some diagrams can often be reduced to the question of some verysimple equivalence (using only Reidemeister 2 moves). To do that, we made difference between twotypes of crossings: the “odd” ones and the “even” ones and created a diagram-valued invariant ofour objects (free knots). For some diagrams which are “irreducibly odd” the value of the invariantconsists of the diagram itself, and it has been considered then only up to second Reidemeistermove.This has a lot of corollaries (already described here or still to come in forthcoming papers):for flat virtual knots (for virtual knots and their generalizations see [4]), their non-triviality,non-equivalence, non-invertibility etc.However, the main nerve of the construction was the notion of odd crossing. Roughly speaking,we are taking a Gauss diagram and forgetting all over/under information and all writhe numbersmodulo formal Reidemeister moves. Odd crossings are precisely those corresponding to