Total curvature and packing of knots

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2006.04.002zbMATH Open1114.57002arXivmath/0310365OpenAlexW2074185220MaRDI QIDQ857049FDOQ857049

Jonathan K. Simon, Gregory R. Buck

Publication date: 14 December 2006

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

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.

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)

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