Interlocked open and closed linkages with few joints. (Q1395574)

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Interlocked open and closed linkages with few joints.
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    Interlocked open and closed linkages with few joints. (English)
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    1 July 2003
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    Consider a simple polygonal chain (either an open polygonal arc or a closed polygon) embedded in 3-space. A \textit{motion} of the chain is a motion of the vertices of the chain in 3-space that preserves the length of the polygonal edges throughout the motion, and never causes the polygonal edges to cross each other. We say that two such chains are \textit{interlocked} if they can not be separated by a motion. In this article the authors study the interlocking of small chains. In particular, if an \(n\)-chain is a chain with \(n\) segments, they show that a triangle and an open 4-chain can interlock, a quadrilateral and an open 3-chain can interlock, but a triangle and an open 3-chain can not interlock.
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    knots
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    linkages in \(S^3\)
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    polygonal chain
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