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Conformal invariance of the writhe of a knot

Geometric Topology 2016-03-21 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We give a new proof of an old theorem by Banchoff and White 1975 that claims that the writhe of a knot is conformally invariant.

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@article{arxiv.0803.1876,
  title  = {Conformal invariance of the writhe of a knot},
  author = {R. Langevin and J. O'Hara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1876},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures