On the necessity of Reidemeister move 2 for simplifying immersed planar curves

Tobias Hagge; Jonathan Yazinski

Banach Center Publications (2014)

  • Volume: 103, Issue: 1, page 101-110
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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In 2001, motivated by his results on finite-type knot diagram invariants, Östlund conjectured that Reidemeister moves 1 and 3 are sufficient to describe a homotopy from any generic immersion S¹ → ℝ² to the standard embedding of the circle. We show that this conjecture is false.

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Tobias Hagge, and Jonathan Yazinski. "On the necessity of Reidemeister move 2 for simplifying immersed planar curves." Banach Center Publications 103.1 (2014): 101-110. <http://eudml.org/doc/282358>.

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