Timeline for Proof of the Reidemeister theorem
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| Feb 14, 2010 at 13:48 | comment | added | Scott Carter | I did not mean to be cryptic at all, but it was late when I wrote it. Masahico and I proved a "movie move theorem" that was published in Journ. of Knot Thy. and its Ram. There were problems with the interpretations that people could make of it. So we proved a more precise result with Joachim Rieger (CRS). A lot of the transversality arguments are worked out in both places. In particular, when your knot diagram has a height function, you have to deal with critical interchange, zig-zag, and $\psi$ moves. I just don't remember if we gave a proof of the R thm, or not. Probably not. | |
| Feb 14, 2010 at 5:30 | comment | added | algori | Scott, thanks! Your second paragraph is a bit cryptic. For the record: I know how to prove Reidemeister's theorem, I'm looking for a detailed proof accessible to undergraduate students with a limited experience of mathematics, let alone topology. | |
| Feb 14, 2010 at 3:09 | history | answered | Scott Carter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |