Quadrisecant approximation of hexagonal trefoil knot

DOI10.1142/S0218216511009467MaRDI QIDQ3110874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gyo Taek Jin, Seojung Park

Publication date 16 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2926

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knotpolygonal knotquadrisecantquadrisecant approximationtrefoil knot

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Abstract: It is known that every nontrivial knot has at least two quadrisecants. Given a knot, we mark each intersection point of each of its quadrisecants. Replacing each subarc between two nearby marked points with a straight line segment joining them, we obtain a polygonal closed curve which we will call the quadrisecant approximation of the given knot. We show that for any hexagonal trefoil knot, there are only three quadrisecants, and the resulting quadrisecant approximation has the same knot type.

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