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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 C1C^1-dense relative hh-principle in the space of immersed curves with nonvanishing curvature in Euclidean space Rn3R^{n\geq 3}. It follows that two knots of constant curvature in R3R^3 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 22, are equal.

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@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