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TauCeti.KnotTheory.PDCode.DisjointUnion.Planar

Planarity of disjoint unions of PD-codes #

Placing diagrams in disjoint discs preserves planarity, and a disjoint union is planar only if both summands are planar. This lets a planar local replacement on isolated components be used inside an arbitrary planar surrounding diagram.

The crossing rotation and face traversal act separately on the two blocks of half-edges. The graph components correspond to the disjoint union of the summands' graph components; this is proved on monodromy orbits, without identifying the monodromy group with a product (it may be a proper subdirect product). Face counts are additive, and the Euler bound for each summand gives the converse of planarity preservation. Crossing-free circles contribute neither graph components nor faces, so the results include diagrams without crossings.

References #

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The crossing rotation acts independently on the two summands.

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Face traversal stays within each summand and follows its original face traversal.

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The faces of disjoint diagrams are counted independently.

The graph components of a disjoint union are exactly the components of its two summands. This correspondence includes empty blocks of half-edges.

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    A representative in the first block maps to its original graph component.

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    A representative in the second block maps to its original graph component.

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    The inverse component correspondence includes the first block's representative.

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    The inverse component correspondence includes the second block's representative.

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    A disjoint union is planar exactly when both summands are planar. The converse uses the Euler bound separately on each summand, so a deficit of faces cannot cancel.