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2006 Ordering the Reidemeister moves of a classical knot
Alexander Coward
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6(2): 659-671 (2006). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.659

Abstract

We show that any two diagrams of the same knot or link are connected by a sequence of Reidemeister moves which are sorted by type.

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Alexander Coward. "Ordering the Reidemeister moves of a classical knot." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6 (2) 659 - 671, 2006. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2006.6.659

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Received: 8 June 2005; Revised: 13 April 2006; Accepted: 17 April 2006; Published: 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1095.57005
MathSciNet: MR2240911
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.659

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25
Secondary: 57M27

Keywords: knot diagram , Reidemeister move

Rights: Copyright © 2006 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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