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 #
- S. K. Lando, A. K. Zvonkin, Graphs on Surfaces and Their Applications, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences 141, Springer 2004, §1.3 (rotation systems) and §1.5.
The crossing rotation acts independently on the two summands.
Face traversal stays within each summand and follows its original face traversal.
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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The inverse component correspondence includes the first block's representative.
The inverse component correspondence includes the second block's representative.
The number of graph components is additive under disjoint union.
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.