Abstract
We introduce and study local moves for links, called simple ribbon moves. We also introduce a complexity of links, called the $h$-complexity, which coincides with the genus in the case of knots, and we show that simple ribbon moves never reduce the $h$-complexities of links.
Citation
Kazuaki Kobayashi. Tetsuo Shibuya. Tatsuya Tsukamoto. "Simple ribbon moves for links." Osaka J. Math. 51 (3) 545 - 573, July 2014.
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