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On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves

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Main Author: Ayivor, Audry F
Other Authors: Gay, David T
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 2015
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12164 On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves Ayivor, Audry F Gay, David T Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42). Grid diagrams are essential in the new combinatorial version [MOST07] of the Heegaard Floer knot homology, and proving that these homologies are actually knot and link invariants depends on knowing that two grid diagrams representing isotopic links are related by grid moves. The purpose of this paper is to prove this fact. This result has already been proved by Cromwell [CrogS] and Dynnikov [Dyn06]. We present a new proof which is built upon Markov's theorem involving moves on braid words and link isotopy. 2015-01-14T07:18:09Z 2015-01-14T07:18:09Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12164 eng application/pdf Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Faculty of Science University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Ayivor, Audry F
On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
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title On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
title_full On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
title_fullStr On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
title_full_unstemmed On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
title_short On grid diagrams, braids and Markov moves
title_sort on grid diagrams braids and markov moves
topic Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12164
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