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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.j180615

ARC SHIFT NUMBER AND REGION ARC SHIFT NUMBER FOR VIRTUAL KNOTS  

Gill, Amrendra (Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Ropar)
Kaur, Kirandeep (Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Ropar)
Madeti, Prabhakar (Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Ropar)
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Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.56, no.4, 2019 , pp. 1063-1081 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we formulate a new local move on virtual knot diagram, called arc shift move. Further, we extend it to another local move called region arc shift defined on a region of a virtual knot diagram. We establish that these arc shift and region arc shift moves are unknotting operations by showing that any virtual knot diagram can be turned into trivial knot using arc shift (region arc shift) moves. Based upon the arc shift move and region arc shift move, we define two virtual knot invariants, arc shift number and region arc shift number respectively.
Keywords
virtual knot; Gauss diagram; forbidden moves;
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