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I mean, quite honestly, I'm not in the grad student phase yet, so I simply don't even see why that subset should be a circle, much less why it should be the cinquefoil knot.
@ Robert: "this makes much more sense from knot theory rather than basic algebraic topology." I'm curious, how can you solve your problem with just basic algebraic topology and no knot theory?
