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Surface singularities in $R^4$: first steps towards Lipschitz knot theory

Algebraic Geometry 2020-02-14 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A link of an isolated singularity of a two-dimensional semialgebraic surface in R4R^4 is a knot (or a link) in S3S^3. Thus the ambient Lipschitz classification of surface singularities in R4R^4 can be interpreted as a bi-Lipschitz refinement of the topological classification of knots (or links) in S3S^3. We show that, given a knot KK in S3S^3, there are infinitely many distinct ambient Lipschitz equivalence classes of outer metric Lipschitz equivalent singularities in R4R^4 with the links topologically equivalent to KK.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02002,
  title  = {Surface singularities in $R^4$: first steps towards Lipschitz knot theory},
  author = {Lev Birbrair and Andrei Gabrielov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02002},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, 9 figures. Minor corrections, including several definitions and proof outlines, have been made

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