Cubic graphs induced by bridge trisections
Cubic graphs induced by bridge trisections
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
1
通讯作者:
Alexander Zupan
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作者:
J. Meier;A. Thompson;Alexander Zupan
Every embedded surface $mathcal{K}$ in the 4-sphere admits a bridge trisection, a decomposition of $(S^4,mathcal{K})$ into three simple pieces. In this case, the surface $mathcal{K}$ is determined by an embedded 1-complex, called the $ extit{1-skeleton}$ of the bridge trisection. As an abstract graph, the 1-skeleton is a cubic graph $Gamma$ that inherits a natural Tait coloring, a 3-coloring of the edge set of $Gamma$ such that each vertex is incident to edges of all three colors. In this paper, we reverse this association: We prove that every Tait-colored cubic graph is isomorphic to the 1-skeleton of a bridge trisection corresponding to an unknotted surface. When the surface is nonorientable, we show that such an embedding exists for every possible normal Euler number. As a corollary, every tri-plane diagram for a knotted surface can be converted to a tri-plane diagram for an unknotted surface via crossing changes and interior Reidemeister moves.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1717171115
发表时间:
2017-10
期刊:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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作者:
J. Meier;Alexander Zupan
通讯作者:
J. Meier;Alexander Zupan