Some non-trivial PL knots whose complements are homotopy circles

DOI10.4064/FM193-1-1MaRDI QIDQ3414786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Greg Friedman

Publication date 10 January 2007

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408325

zbMATH Keywords

knot complementknot theoryPL knotsimple knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10)

Abstract: We show that there exist non-trivial piecewise-linear (PL) knots with isolated singularities $S^{n-2}subset{S}^n$, $ngeq5$, whose complements have the homotopy type of a circle. This is in contrast to the case of smooth, PL locally-flat, and topological locally-flat knots, for which it is known that if the complement has the homotopy type of a circle, then the knot is trivial.

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