Spaces of polynomial knots in low degree

DOI10.1142/S021821651550073XMaRDI QIDQ3465792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rama Mishra, Hitesh Raundal

Publication date 22 January 2016

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5728

zbMATH Keywords

polynomial knotpath equivalencepolynomial degree of a knotpolynomial representation of a knotspaces of polynomial knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25)

Abstract: We show that all knots up to $6$ crossings can be represented by polynomial knots of degree at most $7$, among which except for $5_2,5_2^{\ast },6_1,6_1^{\ast },6_2,6_2^{\ast }$ and $6_3$ all are in their minimal degree representation. We provide concrete polynomial representation of all these knots. Durfee and O'Shea had asked a question: Is there any $5$ crossing knot in degree $6$? In this paper we try to partially answer this question. For an integer $dgeq2$, we define a set $mathcal{ildeP}_d$ to be the set of all polynomial knots given by $$ such that $extdeg(f)=d-2$, $extdeg(g)=d-1$ and $extdeg(h)=d$. This set can be identified with a subset of $mathbb{R}^{3d}$ and thus it is equipped with the natural topology which comes from the usual topology $mathbb{R}^{3d}$. In this paper we determine a lower bound on the number of path components of $mathcal{ildeP}_d$ for $dleq7$. We define a path equivalence for polynomial knots in the space $mathcal{ildeP}_d$ and show that it is stronger than the topological equivalence.

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