Integrating curvature: from Umlaufsatz to J^+ invariant

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2013.01.016MaRDI QIDQ390794zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergei Lanzat, Michael Polyak

Publication date 9 January 2014

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4288

zbMATH Keywords

Arnold's \(J^+\) invariantcurve invariantsgeneric circle immersionshomotopy invariantHopf's Umlaufsatzplanar curvesquantization of the total curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Abstract: Hopf's Umlaufsatz relates the total curvature of a closed immersed plane curve to its rotation number. While the curvature of a curve changes under local deformations, its integral over a closed curve is invariant under regular homotopies. A natural question is whether one can find some non-trivial densities on a curve, such that the corresponding integrals are (possibly after some corrections) also invariant under regular homotopies of the curve in the class of generic immersions. We construct a family of such densities using indices of points relative to the curve. This family depends on a formal parameter q and may be considered as a quantization of the total curvature. The linear term in the Taylor expansion at q=1 coincides, up to a normalization, with Arnold's J^+ invariant. This leads to an integral expression for J^+.

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