On Kirby calculus for null-homotopic framed links in 3–manifolds

Kirby proved that two framed links in $S^{3}$ give orientation-preserving homeomorphic results of surgery if and only if these two links are related by a sequence of two kinds of moves called stabilizations and handle-slides. Fenn and Rourke gave a necessary and sufficient condition for two framed links in a closed, oriented $3$ –manifold to be related by a finite sequence of these moves.

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first give a generalization of Fenn and Rourke’s result to $3$ –manifolds with boundary. Then we apply this result to the case of framed links whose components are null-homotopic in the $3$ –manifold.

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Keywords

$3$–manifold, framed link, surgery, Kirby calculus, null-homotopic link

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 57M25, 57M27

References

Publication

Received: 23 February 2013

Revised: 19 June 2013

Accepted: 21 June 2013

Preview posted: 21 November 2013

Published: 9 January 2014

Authors

Kazuo Habiro
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kyoto University Kyoto 606-8502 Japan

Tamara Widmer
Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zürich Switzerland

Volume 14, issue 1 (2014)

Kazuo Habiro and Tamara Widmer

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