We show that any two diagrams of the same knot or link are connected by a sequence of Reidemeister moves which are sorted by type.
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author = {Coward, Alexander},
title = {Ordering the {Reidemeister} moves of a classical knot},
journal = {Algebraic and Geometric Topology},
pages = {659--671},
year = {2006},
volume = {6},
number = {2},
doi = {10.2140/agt.2006.6.659},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.2140/agt.2006.6.659/}
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Coward, Alexander. Ordering the Reidemeister moves of a classical knot. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 6 (2006) no. 2, pp. 659-671. doi: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.659
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