h-principle for curves with prescribed curvature

Abstract: We prove that every immersed

C^{2}

-curve

g a m m a

in

m a t h b b R^{n}

,

n g e q s l a n t 3

with curvature

k_{g a m m a}

can be

C^{1}

-approximated by immersed

C^{2}

-curves having prescribed curvature

k > k_{g a m m a}

. The approximating curves satisfy a

C^{1}

-dense

h

-principle. As an application we obtain the existence of

C^{2}

-knots of arbitrary positive curvature in each isotopy class, which generalizes a similar result by McAtee for

C^{2}

-knots of constant curvature.

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