Moduli-space structure of knots with intersections

DOI10.1063/1.531527MaRDI QIDQ5284257zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norbert Grot, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 22 January 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9604010

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphismsknotsmoduli-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

Abstract: It is well known that knots are countable in ordinary knot theory. Recently, knots {it with intersections} have raised a certain interest, and have been found to have physical applications. We point out that such knots --equivalence classes of loops in $R^3$ under diffeomorphisms-- are not countable; rather, they exhibit a moduli-space structure. We characterize these spaces of moduli and study their dimension. We derive a lower bound (which we conjecture being actually attained) on the dimension of the (non-degenerate components) of the moduli spaces, as a function of the valence of the intersection.

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