Questions tagged [knot-link]
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Can I wrap a suitcase with hair ties
Is there a nontrivial link in a big solid torus that is trivial in the ambient Euclidean space such that each circle is unknot and has a sufficiently small length?
It is motivated by a question that ...
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Random rings linked into one component?
Let $S$ be a sphere of unit radius.
Let $C_n$ be a collection of unit-radius circles/rings whose centers
are (uniformly distributed)
random points in $S$, and which are oriented (tilted) randomly (...
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How to prove the product of Whitehead manifold and $\mathbb{R}$ is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^4$?
I am currently reading Rolfsen's "Knots and Links". At page 82 Whitehead manifold $W$ is defined and an exercise asking to show that $W\times \mathbb{R}\cong \mathbb{R}^4$ is left. Reference ...
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Is there a "simplest" way to embed a graph in 3-space?
I consider embeddings of graphs into 3-space with edges embedded as arbitrary curves. In the simplest (non-trivial) case the graph $G$ is a cycle or union of cycles, in which case the embeddings can ...
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Tangled random triangles: One giant component?
Suppose you have $n$ triangles whose corners are random points on a sphere $S$
in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
Viewing the triangles as built from rigid bars as edges,
two triangles are linked if they cannot be ...
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Infinitely many Brunnian links with bounded crossings
A set of Brunnian link is a nontrivial link such that if one component is removed, it becomes trivial. The best known example is the Borromean rings:
Here's a six component example:
There is likely ...
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Link invariants distinguishing components
I was recently thinking about links where each component plays the same role: for every permutation of components, there is an isotopy permuting these components in the prescribed way. In the vein of ...
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