Subspaces of knot spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-01-05913-5MaRDI QIDQ2723512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig Benham, Xiao-Song Lin, David Miller

Publication date 5 July 2001

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905154

zbMATH Keywords

DNA topologyknot spacesknotsweak homotopy equivalencewrithe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

Abstract: The inclusion of the space of all knots of a prescribed writhe in a particular isotopy class into the space of all knots in that isotopy class is a weak homotopy equivalence.

Review text

The paper is concerned with the writhe of smoothly embedded knots in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), which is a real number defined by a differential geometric integral as used in work on DNA, rather than the combinatorially defined integer writhe of a knot diagram. The result proved here is that the inclusion of the space of all knots of a fixed writhe in an isotopy class into the space of all knots in that class is a weak homotopy equivalence. The proof depends on modification of families of embeddings parametrised by \(S^n\), making careful use of helical segments to allow suitable control of the writhe.

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