KNOTS AND LINKS WITHOUT PARALLEL TANGENTS

DOI10.1112/S0024609302001273MaRDI QIDQ4431491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ying-Qing Wu

Publication date 22 October 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912050

zbMATH Keywords

knotslinkstangents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Abstract: Steinhaus conjectured that every closed oriented $C^1$-curve has a pair of anti-parallel tangents. Porter disproved the conjecture by showing that there exist curves with no anti-parallel tangents. Colin Adams rised the question of whether there exists a nontrivial knot in $R^3$ which has no parallel or antiparallel tangents. The main result of this paper solves this problem, showing that any (smooth or polygonal) link $L$ in $R^3$ is isotopic to a smooth link $hatL$ which has no parallel or antiparallel tangents.

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