POLYGONAL KNOT SPACE NEAR ROPELENGTH-MINIMIZED KNOTS

DOI10.1142/S0218216508006282MaRDI QIDQ3519946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth C. Millett, Michael Piatek, Eric J. Rawdon

Publication date 19 August 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508293

zbMATH Keywords

perturbationropelengthlocal knotssatellite knotsthick knotspolygonal knotsequilateral knots

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Abstract: For a polygonal knot K, it is shown that a tube of radius R(K), the polygonal thickness radius, is an embedded torus. Given a thick configuration K, perturbations of size r<R(K) define satellite structures, or local knotting. We explore knotting within these tubes both theoretically and numerically. We provide bounds on perturbation radii for which we can see small trefoil and figure-eight summands and use Monte Carlo simulations to approximate the relative probabilities of these structures as a function of the number of edges.

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