Spaces of polynomial knots in low degree

DOI10.1142/S021821651550073XzbMATH Open1331.57013arXiv1410.5728OpenAlexW2963081927MaRDI QIDQ3465792FDOQ3465792

Authors: Rama Mishra, Hitesh Raundal 

Publication date: 22 January 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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