Timeline for Infinite knot composed of parallel helices
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | Ian Agol | I changed the description to describe more precisely the diffeomorphism. The ambient isotopy then follows by connectedness of the diffeo. group. | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 17:04 | history | edited | Ian Agol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 11:51 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Agol: This is an insightful observation, that a diffeomorphism takes it to the unknot. And I love that phrase, "combing the link to be straight"! | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 6:38 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Actually, the "combing off to infinity" that I was thinking of for the long knot wasn't an ambient isotopy. | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 4:19 | history | answered | Ian Agol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |