English

New lower bound for the distortion of a knotted curve

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove that distortion of a knotted curve in R3\R^3 is great than 4.76. This improves a result obtained by John M. Sullivan and Elizabeth Denne in \cite{DS}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0612472,
  title  = {New lower bound for the distortion of a knotted curve},
  author = {T. Bereznyak and P. Svetlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0612472},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures