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The number of Reidemeister moves for splitting a link

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We give an explicit upper bound for the number of Reidemeister moves for deforming a link diagram of a split link to be disconnected.

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  1. Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women’s University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681, Japan

    Chuichiro Hayashi

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 57M25, 57N10

The author is partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 15740047), Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Technology, Japan.

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Hayashi, C. The number of Reidemeister moves for splitting a link. Math. Ann. 332, 239–252 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-004-0599-x

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