A class of curves in every knot type where chords of high distortion are common

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2007.05.003zbMATH Open1139.57006arXivmath/0607642OpenAlexW2033548651MaRDI QIDQ2643069FDOQ2643069

Authors: Chad A. S. Mullikin 

Publication date: 23 August 2007

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The distortion of a curve is the supremum, taken over distinct pairs of points of the curve, of the ratio of arclength to spatial distance between the points. Gromov asked in 1981 whether a curve in every knot type can be constructed with distortion less than a universal constant C. Answering Gromov's question seems to require the construction of lower bounds on the distortion of knots in terms of some topological invariant. We attempt to make such bounds easier to construct by showing that pairs of points with high distortion are very common on curves of minimum length in the set of curves in a given knot type with distortion bounded above and distortion thickness bounded below.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607642

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zbMATH Keywords

knot theoryropelengthknot energyGromov's distortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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