Total curvature and packing of knots

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2006.04.002zbMATH Open1114.57002OpenAlexW2074185220MaRDI QIDQ857049FDOQ857049

Authors Gregory R. Buck, Jonathan K. Simon 

Publication date 14 December 2006

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310365

zbMATH Keywords

average crossing number of knotscrossing number of knotscurvature of knotsropelength of knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Abstract: We establish a new fundamental relationship between total curvature of knots and crossing number. If K is a smooth knot in 3-space, R the cross-section radius of a uniform tube neighborhood of K, L the arclength of K, and k the total curvature of K, then (up to a coefficient independent of K), crossing number of K < (k)(L/R). There are families of knots whose crossing numbers grow faster than either k or L/R separately. For example, the knots whose crossing numbers grow with the (4/3)-power of ropelength must have total curvature growing arbitrarily large as well.

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