The IH-complex of spatial trivalent graphs
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The IH-complex of spatial trivalent graphs
zbMATH Open document ID: 1213.57010
author: Atsushi Ishii
author: Kengo Kishimoto
published in: Tokyo Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2011-03-25T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors define the IH-complex on the set of spatial trivalent graphs as follows: The vertices of the complex are isotopy classes of spatial trivalent graphs, and two vertices are connected by an edge if one graph can be obtained from another by an IH-move. An IH-move can be described as follows: begin with two adjacent vertices, \(v\) and \(w\), and suppose \(v\) is also adjacent to \(a\) and \(b\), while \(w\) is adjacent to \(x\) and \(y\). Then replace \(v\) and \(w\) by adjacent vertices \(v'\) and \(w'\) such that \(v'\) is adjacent to \(a\) and \(x\), and \(w'\) is adjacent to \(b\) and \(y\). The distance between two vertices in the complex is the minimal number of IH-moves required to transform one graph into the other (or \(\infty\) if there is no such sequence of moves). The authors prove that the trivial spatial theta graph and the trivial spatial handcuff graph are adjacent in the complex, but while the degree of the handcuff graph is 1, the degree of the theta graph is \(\infty\) (so the complex is not locally finite). They go on to define flows along the graphs, and use these to provide a lower bound on the distance between two spatial graphs in the complex. The also construct a family of spatial graphs which realize all integral distances between vertices in the complex.
reviewed by: Blake Mellor
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C10
zbMATH DE Number: 5869980
zbMATH Keywords: spatial graph
zbMATH Keywords: simplicial complex
zbMATH Keywords: IH-move
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3836/tjm/1296483486
OpenAlex ID: W1982119259
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DOI: 10.3836/TJM/1296483486
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5869980