Another space-filling trefoil knot (Q1892435)
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Another space-filling trefoil knot (English)
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2 July 1995
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The aim of this note is to construct a toroidal polyhedron which admits a tiling of Euclidean three-space. The presented polyhedron is homotopic to a trefoil knot. The idea of the construction can be generalized and used to obtain space-filling knotted polyhedron corresponding to an arbitrary type of knot. The author informs that similar results were obtained by a few other mathematicians independently soon after Egon Schulte announced this problem in 1993. For instance see the paper of \textit{W. Kuperberg} [ibid. 13, No. 3-4, 561-567 (1995)].
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toroidal polyhedron
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tiling of Euclidean three-space
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knot
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