Stable equivalence of bridge positions of a handlebody-knot

2020/12/14 by Makoto Ozawa, Ozawa, Makoto
Engineering · Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Primary 57M25 #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.07310

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Abstract

We show that any two bridge positions of a handlebody-knot are stably equivalent.

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