Counterexamples to the quadrisecant approximation conjecture

DOI10.1142/S0218216518500220MaRDI QIDQ4606552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 8 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00538

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polygonal knotquadrisecant approximation

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Abstract: A quadrisecant of a knot is a straight line intersecting the knot at four points. If a knot has finitely many quadrisecants, one can replace each subarc between two adjacent secant points by the line segment between them to get the quadrisecant approximation of the original knot. It was conjectured that the quadrisecant approximation is always a knot with the same knot type as the original knot. We show that every knot type contains two knots, the quadrisecant approximation of one knot has self intersections while the quadrisecant approximation of the other knot is a knot with different knot type.

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