The conjecture that planar-move graphs differ from knot-move graphs
The conjecture that planar-move graphs differ from knot-move graphs
Let be the set of graphs isotopic to planar graphs, the set of graphs isotopic to graphs obtained from planar graphs by the specified moves, the set of graphs isotopic to graphs obtained from knots, including the unknot, by those moves, and the set of graphs whose polynomial equals . The known inclusions are .
The conjecture that and differ.
The question concerns whether the classes generated from planar graphs and from knots by the allowed graph moves coincide; the source gives the preceding inclusions and an example proving , but no resolution of this separation is supplied.
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Primary source
Rui Pedro Carpentier, “Topological notions for Kauffman and Vogel's polynomial”, arXiv:math/0204207 (2002).
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