Abstract
We introduce a new equivalence relation on decorated ribbon graphs, and show that its equivalence classes directly correspond to virtual links. We demonstrate how this correspondence can be used to convert any invariant of virtual links into an invariant of ribbon graphs, and vice versa.
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Baldridge, S., Kauffman, L. H., & Rushworth, W. (2022). On ribbon graphs and virtual links. European Journal of Combinatorics, 103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2022.103520
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