Deformations of curves with constant curvature
Differential Geometry
2025-04-17 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We prove that curves of constant curvature satisfy the parametric -dense relative -principle in the space of immersed curves with nonvanishing curvature in Euclidean space . It follows that two knots of constant curvature in are isotopic, resp. homotopic, through curves of constant curvature if and only if they are isotopic, resp. homotopic, and their self-linking numbers, resp. self-linking numbers mod , are equal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.01729,
title = {Deformations of curves with constant curvature},
author = {Mohammad Ghomi and Matteo Raffaelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01729},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
14 pages, 2 figures; Typos corrected