New perspectives on self-linking
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Publication:705989
DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2004.03.004zbMATH Open1078.57011arXivmath/0303034OpenAlexW1994253307WikidataQ63351133 ScholiaQ63351133MaRDI QIDQ705989FDOQ705989
Authors: James Conant, Kevin P. Scannell, Ryan D. Budney, Dev P. Sinha 
Publication date: 16 February 2005
Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We initiate the study of classical knots through the homotopy class of the n-th evaluation map of the knot, which is the induced map on the compactified n-point configuration space. Sending a knot to its n-th evaluation map realizes the space of knots as a subspace of what we call the n-th mapping space model for knots. We compute the homotopy types of the first three mapping space models, showing that the third model gives rise to an integer-valued invariant. We realize this invariant in two ways, in terms of collinearities of three or four points on the knot, and give some explicit computations. We show this invariant coincides with the second coefficient of the Conway polynomial, thus giving a new geometric definition of the simplest finite-type invariant. Finally, using this geometric definition, we give some new applications of this invariant relating to quadrisecants in the knot and to complexity of polygonal and polynomial realizations of a knot.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303034
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