finite type invariants;
ribbon;
2-knots;
filtrations;
D O I:
10.1016/S0166-8641(01)00115-8
中图分类号:
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号:
070104 ;
摘要:
We have constructed a 'Vassiliev-like' filtration on the free abelian group generated by the set of ribbon 2-knots in 4-space in two ways: one is from a ribbon 2-disk, and the other from a projection of a ribbon 2-knot onto a generic 3-space whose singular set consists of only double points. Each filtration determines a notion of finite type invariants for ribbon 2-knots. We prove that the two filtrations are the same, and thus, the two finite type invariants are coincident. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.