QUADRISECANTS OF KNOTS AND LINKS

DOI10.1142/S021821659400006XzbMATH Open0797.57007arXivmath/9712205OpenAlexW2002102982MaRDI QIDQ4293448FDOQ4293448

Authors: Greg Kuperberg 

Publication date: 24 October 1994

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

Abstract: We show that every non-trivial tame knot or link in R^3 has a quadrisecant, i.e. four collinear points. The quadrisecant must be topologically non-trivial in a precise sense. As an application, we show that a nonsingular, algebraic surface in R^3 which is a knotted torus must have degree at least eight.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712205

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zbMATH Keywords

quadrisecantknotted torusalgebraic surface in \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\)tame knot or link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J99)

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