Quadrisecants and essential secants of knots with applications to the geometry of knots

DOI10.1515/9783110571493-007zbMATH Open1426.57003arXiv1608.02608OpenAlexW2532991059MaRDI QIDQ5380946FDOQ5380946

Authors: Elizabeth Denne 

Publication date: 6 June 2019

Published in: New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quadrisecant line is one which intersects a curve in at least four points, while an essential secant captures something about the knottedness of a knot. This survey article gives a brief history of these ideas, and shows how they may be applied to questions about the geometry of a knot via the total curvature, ropelength and distortion of a knot.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02608

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zbMATH Keywords

knotsdistortionropelengthtotal curvaturequadrisecantstrisecantsessential secants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Knot theory (57K10)

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