Shadow-diagram move conjecture for surface-links

Let D1\mathfrak D^1 and D2\mathfrak D^2 be shadow diagrams for a fixed surface-link (X,F)(X,\mathcal F). The allowed moves are core stabilization or destabilization, Hopf stabilization or destabilization, relative double twist, interior perturbation or deperturbation, Markov perturbation or deperturbation, arc and curve slides, and isotopy rel-\partial.

Shadow-diagram move conjecture. The diagrams D1\mathfrak D^1 and D2\mathfrak D^2 can be related by a finite sequence of moves, each of which is one of the listed types.

This is presented as a diagrammatic analogue of the stabilization and perturbation conjecture for bridge trisections. It would give a finite move-set relating any two shadow diagrams of the same surface-link, but the source does not prove it.

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Jeffrey Meier, “Filling braided links with trisected surfaces”, arXiv:2010.11135 (2020).

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