Reidemeister's theorem for 3-manifolds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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The Reidemeister theorem describes the equivalence of links in terms of diagrams (this theorem was proven in detail by Alexander [1]). A diagram for a link in S3 can be found by projecting the link to any disc recording the over or under crossings. It was shown that two links are equivalent if and only if their diagrams are related by a sequence of so called Reidemeister moves and isotopy in the disc.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , September 1991 , pp. 281 - 292
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