Oriented circle-and-arc Reidemeister clasps #
Lift PDCode.insertCircleClasp to oriented diagrams, retaining the direction of the
chosen arc and specifying the new circle's direction. The new crossings have opposite
signs, so the writhe is unchanged. The normalized Kauffman bracket and Jones polynomial
agree with those of the original diagram with that oriented circle adjoined.
References #
- W. B. R. Lickorish, An Introduction to Knot Theory, GTM 175 (1997), Chapter 3, Lemma 3.3 and Theorem 3.5.
- L. H. Kauffman, State models and the Jones polynomial, Topology 26 (1987), 395–407.
Push a new oriented circle across the arc ending at p. The circle's direction is
o, and the first crossing has over-pair indicator b.
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Forgetting orientation gives the underlying circle-and-arc clasp.
The insertion retains the orientation of every old half-edge.
Orientations at the first new crossing.
Orientations at the second new crossing.
Existing crossing-free components retain their chosen directions.
Every old crossing keeps its sign.
The two new crossings have opposite signs.
The circle-and-arc clasp preserves writhe.
Reflection exchanges the over-strand and retains the new circle's direction.
Reversing all components also reverses the new circle's direction.
The writhe-normalized bracket is invariant under the circle-and-arc move.