Virtual knot

Virtual knot

In knot theory, a virtual knot is a generalization of the classical idea of knots in several ways which are all equivalent.

*In the theory of classical knots, knots can be considered equivalence classes of knot diagrams under the Reidemeister moves. Likewise a virtual knot can be considered an equivalence of virtual knot diagrams which are equivalent under generalized Reidemeister moves. A virtual knot diagram is a 4-valent planar graph, but each vertex is now allowed to be a classical crossing or a new type called virtual. The generalized moves show how to manipulate such diagrams to obtain an equivalent diagram; one move called the semi-virtual move involves both classical and virtual crossings, but all the other moves involve only one variety of crossing.

*A classical knot can also be considered an equivalence class of Gauss diagrams under certain moves on coming from the Reidemeister moves. Not all Gauss diagrams are realizable as knot diagrams, but by considering "all" such equivalence classes we obtain virtual knots.

*A classical knot can be considered an ambient isotopy class of embeddings of the circle into a thickened 2-sphere. This can be generalized by considering such classes of embeddings into thickened higher genus surfaces. This is not quite what we want since adding a handle to a (thick) surface will create a higher genus embedding of the original knot. The adding of a handle is called stabilization and the reverse process destabilization. Thus a virtual knot can be considered an ambient isotopy class of embeddings of the circle into thickened surfaces with the equivalence given by (de)stabilization.

Some basic theorems relating classical and virtual knots:
*If two classical knots are equivalent as virtual knots, they are equivalent as classical knots.
*There is an algorithm to determine if a virtual knot is classical.
*There is an algorithm to determine if two virtual knots are equivalent.

References

*Kauffman, L. and Manturov, V., Virtual knots and links. Tr. Mat. Inst. Steklova 252 (2006), Geom. Topol., Diskret. Geom. i Teor. Mnozh., 114--133; translation in Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 2006, no. 1 (252), 104--121 [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0502.5014 arXiv link]

External links

* [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Students/GreenJ/ Virtual Knot Table]


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