Disjoint unions of oriented diagrams #
Disjoint union retains each component's direction, including the directions on crossing-free circles. Crossing signs are unchanged, and writhe is additive. Consequently the writhe-normalized Kauffman bracket has the same disjoint-union formula as the unoriented bracket. This is the formula used to transport an invariant local replacement of an isolated diagram into an arbitrary surrounding diagram.
References #
- W. B. R. Lickorish, An Introduction to Knot Theory, Springer GTM 175 (1997), Chapter 3, Theorem 3.5 (the writhe normalization).
Disjoint union retains the direction of each component of the two diagrams.
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Forgetting orientations commutes with disjoint union.
The first diagram's half-edges retain their directions.
The second diagram's half-edges retain their directions.
The crossing-free circles and their directions are concatenated as multisets.
Reflection commutes with oriented disjoint union.
Reversing every component commutes with disjoint union.
Every crossing of the first diagram retains its sign.
Every crossing of the second diagram retains its sign.
Writhe is additive under disjoint union.
The normalized bracket of two nonempty disjoint diagrams is the product of their normalized brackets times the circle value.
An empty first summand leaves the other diagram's normalized bracket unchanged.
An empty second summand leaves the other diagram's normalized bracket unchanged.