The necessity of all generalized Reidemeister moves for virtual-knot diagrams
The necessity of all generalized Reidemeister moves for virtual-knot diagrams
Let be a virtual knot, and let and be diagrams of . The generalized Reidemeister-move conjecture. There exist two diagrams and such that every sequence of generalized Reidemeister moves transforming into contains all of the generalized Reidemeister moves. This would establish that, for virtual knots, no generalized Reidemeister move can be omitted in general when relating diagrams of the same knot; the preceding discussion notes that the claim is known for several individual move types, while the remaining cases motivate the conjecture.
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Kanako Oshiro, Ayaka Shimizu and Yoshiro Yaguchi, “Up-down colorings of virtual-link diagrams and the necessity of Reidemeister moves of type II”, arXiv:1703.03573 (2017).
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