Topology of knot spaces in dimension 3

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDP058zbMATH Open1201.57021arXivmath/0506524OpenAlexW1502157462MaRDI QIDQ3589236FDOQ3589236

Authors: Ryan D. Budney 

Publication date: 20 September 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is a computation of the homotopy type of K, the space of long knots in R^3, the same space of knots studied by Vassiliev via singularity theory. Each component of K corresponds to an isotopy class of long knot, and we `enumerate' the components via the companionship trees associated to the knot. The knots with the simplest companionship trees are: the unknot, torus knots, and hyperbolic knots. The homotopy-type of these components of K were computed by Hatcher. In the case the companionship tree has height, we give a fibre-bundle description of those components of K, recursively, in terms of the homotopy types of `simpler' components of K, in the sense that they correspond to knots with shorter companionship trees. The primary case studied in this paper is the case of a knot which has a hyperbolic manifold contained in the JSJ-decomposition of its complement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506524

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zbMATH Keywords

embeddingcomponenthomotopy typeJSJ-decompositionlong knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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