INSCRIBING SMOOTH KNOTS WITH REGULAR POLYGONS

DOI10.1112/S0024609303002662zbMATH Open1052.57010arXivmath/0610867MaRDI QIDQ4465111FDOQ4465111

Authors: Ying-Qing Wu 

Publication date: 27 May 2004

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

Abstract: A regular $n$-gon inscribing a knot is a sequence of $n$ points on a knot, such that the distances between adjacent points are all the same. It is shown that any smooth knot is inscribed by a regular $n$-gon for any $n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610867

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zbMATH Keywords

regular \(n\)-gon

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