A braidoid equivalence for spherical knotoids

Braidoids form a counterpart theory to the theory of planar knotoids, just as braids do for three-dimensional links. As such, planar knotoid diagrams represent the same knotoid in R² if and only if they can be presented as the closure of two labeled braidoid diagrams related by an equivalence relation, named L-equivalence. In this paper, we refine the notion of L-equivalence of braidoid diagrams in order to obtain an equivalence theorem for (multi)-knotoid diagrams in S² when represented as the closure of labeled braidoid diagrams.