{"paper":{"title":"Well-quasi-order of plane minors and an application to link diagrams","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.CO"],"primary_cat":"math.GT","authors_text":"Bojan Mohar, Carolina Medina, Gelasio Salazar","submitted_at":"2019-05-06T06:01:58Z","abstract_excerpt":"A plane graph $H$ is a {\\em plane minor} of a plane graph $G$ if there is a sequence of vertex and edge deletions, and edge contractions performed on the plane, that takes $G$ to $H$. Motivated by knot theory problems, it has been asked if the plane minor relation is a well-quasi-order. We settle this in the affirmative. We also prove an additional application to knot theory. If $L$ is a link and $D$ is a link diagram, write $D\\leadsto L$ if there is a sequence of crossing exchanges and smoothings that takes $D$ to a diagram of $L$. We show that, for each fixed link $L$, there is a polynomial-"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1905.01830","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}