Classification of string links up to $2n$-moves and link-homotopy

Haruko A. Miyazawa, Kodai Wada, Akira Yasuhara

Published 2019-02-16Version 1

Two string links are equivalent up to $2n$-moves and link-homotopy if and only if their all Milnor link-homotopy invariants are congruent modulo $n$. Moreover, the set of the equivalence classes forms a finite group generated by elements of order $n$. The classification induces that if two string links are equivalent up to $2n$-moves for every $n>0$, then they are link-homotopic.