There are non homotopic framed homotopies of long knots

Details There are non homotopic framed homotopies of long knots There are non homotopic framed homotopies of long knots

2007-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4253v3

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

15 pages, 14 figures v3: exposition improved, proofs completed

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Let $\mathcal {M}$ be the space of all, including singular, long knots in 3-space and for which a fixed projection into the plane is an immersion. Let $cl(\Sigma^{(1)}_{iness})$ be the closure of the union of all singular knots in $\mathcal {M}$ with exactly one ordinary double point and such that the two resolutions represent the same (non singular) knot type. We call $\Sigma^{(1)}_{iness}$ the {\em inessential walls} and we call $\mathcal {M}_{ess} = \mathcal {M} \setminus cl(\Sigma^{(1)}_{iness})$ the {\em essential diagram space}. We construct a non trivial class in $H^1(\mathcal {M}_{ess}; \mathbb{Z}[A, A^{-1}])$ by an extension of the Kauffman bracket. This implies in particular that there are loops in $\mathcal {M}_{ess}$ which consist of regular isotopies of knots together with crossing changings and which are not contractible in $\mathcal {M}_{ess}$ (leading to the title of the paper). We conjecture that our construction gives rise to a new knot polynomial for knots of unknotting number one.

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