The distortion of a knotted curve

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09705-0zbMath1179.53003arXivmath/0409438OpenAlexW2038435185MaRDI QIDQ3617605

Elizabeth Denne, John M. Sullivan

Publication date: 30 March 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409438

zbMATH Keywords

borderline-essential arcsdistortion nontrivial tame knotshortest essential secant

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