Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5777733 | Topology and its Applications | 2017 | 27 Pages |
Abstract
It is known that every surface-link can be presented by a marked graph diagram, and such a diagram presentation is unique up to moves called Yoshikawa moves. G. Kuperberg introduced a regular isotopy invariant, called the quantum A2 invariant, for tangled trivalent graph diagrams. In this paper, a polynomial for a marked graph diagram is defined by use of the quantum A2 invariant and it is studied how the polynomial changes under Yoshikawa moves. The notion of a ribbon marked graph is introduced to show that this polynomial is useful for an invariant of a ribbon 2-knot.
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Authors
Yewon Joung, Seiichi Kamada, Akio Kawauchi, Sang Youl Lee,