THE SELF-LINKING NUMBER OF A CLOSED CURVE IN ℝn

DOI10.1142/S0218216500000268MaRDI QIDQ4541124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angel Montesinos Amilibia, J. J. Nuño-Ballesteros

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/9906015

zbMATH Keywords

osculating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

Abstract: We introduce the self-linking number of a smooth closed curve in R^n with respect to a 3-dimensional vector bundle over the curve, provided that some regularity conditions are satisfied. When n=3, this construction gives the classical self-linking number of a closed embedded curve with non-vanishing curvature. We also look at some interesting particular cases, which correspond to the osculating or the orthogonal vector bundle of the curve.

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