{"title":"Region crossing change on spatial theta-curves","authors":"Ayaka Shimizu, R. Takahashi","doi":"10.1142/s0218216520500285","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A region crossing change at a region of a spatial-graph diagram is a transformation changing every crossing on the boundary of the region. In this paper, it is shown that every spatial graph consisting of theta-curves can be unknotted by region crossing changes.","PeriodicalId":8454,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Geometric Topology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv: Geometric Topology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218216520500285","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A region crossing change at a region of a spatial-graph diagram is a transformation changing every crossing on the boundary of the region. In this paper, it is shown that every spatial graph consisting of theta-curves can be unknotted by region crossing changes.