Curves defined by Chebyshev polynomials

Authors Gene Freudenburg, Jenna Freudenburg

Publication date 19 February 2009

Plane and space curves (14H50) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10)

Abstract: Working over a field

k k

of characteristic zero, this paper studies line embeddings of the form

p h i = (T_{i}, T_{j}, T_{k}) : A^{1} o A^{3}

, where

T_{n}

denotes the degree

n

Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind. In {it Section 4}, it is shown that (1)

p h i

is an embedding if and only if the pairwise greatest common divisor of

i, j, k

is 1, and (2) for a fixed pair

i, j

of relatively prime positive integers, the embeddings of the form

(T_{i}, T_{j}, T_{k})

represent a finite number of algebraic equivalence classes. {it Section 2} gives an algebraic definition of the Chebyshev polynomials, where their basic identities are established, and {it Section 3} studies the plane curves

(T_{i}, T_{j})

. {it Section 5} establishes the Parity Property for Nodal Curves, and uses this to parametrize the family of alternating

(i, j)

-knots over the real numbers.

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