The Lissajous projection conjecture

A knot has a Lissajous projection if its projection to the xx-yy plane arises from a second-order Lissajous parametrization, with coordinates of the form

x(t)=cos(n1t+ϕ1),y(t)=cos(n2t+ϕ2),x(t)=\cos(n_1t+\phi_1),\qquad y(t)=\cos(n_2t+\phi_2),

for integer frequencies n1,n2n_1,n_2 and real phase shifts ϕ1,ϕ2\phi_1,\phi_2. The Lissajous projection conjecture. Every knot has a Lissajous projection. The source motivates this by observing that sufficiently large frequencies may produce the required projections; whether every knot admits one remains open in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Jim Hoste and Laura Zirbel, “Lissajous knots and knots with Lissajous projections”, arXiv:math/0605632 (2006).

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