COMPUTING THE WRITHE OF A KNOT

DOI10.1142/S0218216501000913MaRDI QIDQ4541019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Cimasoni

Publication date 30 July 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406148

zbMATH Keywords

lattice knotPL knotTait number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and population dynamics (92D99)

Abstract: We study the variation of the Tait number of a closed space curve according to its different projections. The results are used to compute the writhe of a knot, leading to a closed formula in case of polygonal curves.

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