Forming the Borromean rings out of arbitrary polygonal unknots

DOI10.1142/S0218216513500831MaRDI QIDQ5404522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hugh Nelson Howards

Publication date 24 March 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3370

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Borromean ringsstick knotspolygonal knotsrigid motions of space

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Abstract: We prove the perhaps surprising result that given any three polygonal unknots in $R^3$, then we may form the Borromean rings out of them through rigid motions of $R^3$ applied to the individual components together with possible scaling of the components. We also prove that if at least two of the unknots are planar, then we do not need scaling. This is true even for a set of three polygonal unknots that are arbitrarily close to three circles, which themselves cannot be usedfigure to form the Borromean Rings.

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