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 is great than 4.76. This improves a result obtained by John M. Sullivan and Elizabeth Denne in \cite{DS}.
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}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures