Forming the Borromean rings out of arbitrary polygonal unknots

DOI10.1142/S0218216513500831zbMATH Open1287.57007arXiv1406.3370OpenAlexW2963031054MaRDI QIDQ5404522FDOQ5404522

Authors: Hugh Nelson Howards 

Publication date: 24 March 2014

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Borromean ringsstick knotspolygonal knotsrigid motions of space

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