Clément Legrand-Duchesne, Ashutosh Rai, Martin Tancer
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SIAM Journal on Computing, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 431-479, April 2024. Abstract. Deciding whether a diagram of a knot can be untangled with a given number of moves (as a part of the input) is known to be NP-complete. In this paper we determine the parameterized complexity of this problem with respect to a natural parameter called defect. Roughly speaking, it measures the efficiency of the moves used in the shortest untangling sequence of Reidemeister moves. We show that in a shortest untangling sequence the [math] moves, that is, the moves removing two adjacent crossings, can be essentially performed greedily. Using that, we show that this problem belongs to W[P] when parameterized by the defect. We also show that this problem is W[P]-hard by a reduction from Minimum axiom set.
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