2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/74928In this paper we study how to distinguish two embeddings of a finite collection of disjoint circles into the plane up to planar isotopy. We adopt the spirit of the approach by V. Turaev, Operator Invariants of Tangles, Math. USSR-Izv. 35 (1990), 411--444, by considering a category of planar tangles and representing it in an ``algebraic'' category. From this we can extract a numerical invariant for embeddings of a finite collection of disjoint circles and this invariant is, up to certain choices, complete.61 pages, 32 figuresGeometric TopologyCategory Theory57Q35; 57Q37; 57Q99; 06-xxtext