FIBER QUADRISECANTS IN KNOT ISOTOPIES

DOI10.1142/S0218216508006695zbMATH Open1220.57001MaRDI QIDQ3602969FDOQ3602969

Authors Thomas Fiedler, Vitaliy Kurlin

Publication date 12 February 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701878

zbMATH Keywords

lower boundfiber secantgeneric isotopygeneric knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: Fix a straight line L in Euclidean 3-space and consider the fibration of the complement of L by half-planes. A generic knot K in the complement of L has neither fiber quadrisecants nor fiber extreme secants such that K touches the corresponding half-plane at 2 points. Both types of secants occur in generic isotopies of knots. We give lower bounds for the number of these fiber secants in all isotopies connecting given isotopic knots. The bounds are expressed in terms of invariants calculable in linear time with respect to the number of crossings.

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