2 papers
math.GT2024
Studying links via plats: split and composite links
William W. Menasco, Deepisha Solanki
Our main results concern changing an arbitrary plat presentation of a split or composite link to one which is obviously recognizable as being split or composite. Pocket moves, firs…
math.GT2023
Studying Links via Plats: The Unlink
Deepisha Solanki
Our main result is a version of Birman's theorem about equivalence of plats, which does not involve stabilization, for the unlink. We introduce the pocket and flip moves, which mod…