Inscribed right-handed trefoil conjecture
Inscribed right-handed trefoil conjecture
Let be an analytic -periodic function with nonvanishing derivative that parameterizes a right-handed trefoil. A polygonal inscribed trefoil is obtained by cyclically connecting finitely many points of the form by line segments. Inscribed right-handed trefoil conjecture. There exist numbers
such that the polygonal path obtained by cyclically connecting is also a right-handed trefoil. This conjecture asks whether the handedness of the inscribed trefoil can be prescribed; the preceding result guarantees an inscribed trefoil for analytically parameterized trefoils but gives no control over its handedness.
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Primary source
Cole Hugelmeyer, “Inscribed Trefoil Knots”, arXiv:1804.09818 (2018).
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