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A FINITE SET OF LOCAL MOVES FOR KIRBY CALCULUS

BRUNO MARTELLI

Dipartimento di Matematica "Tonelli", Largo Pontecorvo 5, 56127 Pisa, Italy

https://doi.org/10.1142/S021821651250126XCited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We exhibit a finite set of local moves that connect any two surgery presentations of the same 3-manifold via framed links in S³. The moves are handle-slides and blow-downs/ups of a particular simple kind.

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AMSC: 57M25, 57M27

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