Topology of knot spaces in dimension 3

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDP058MaRDI QIDQ3589236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryan D. Budney

Publication date 20 September 2010

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

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

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)

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.

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