illitantrix a new way of looking at knot projections yana malysheva, amit chatwani illimath2002
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Funding Provided By: NSF VIGRE –National Science Foundation –Vertical Integration Research in Education UIUC MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT –University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign NCSA –National Center for Super Computer ApplicationsTRANSCRIPT
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IlliTantrixA new way of looking at knot projections
Yana Malysheva, Amit ChatwaniIlliMath2002
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Mentors•Elizabeth Denne
– Principal Mentor
•Prof. John Sullivan– Corresponding Mentor
•Prof. George Francis– Director IlliMath 2002
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Funding Provided By:• NSF VIGRE
– National Science Foundation – Vertical Integration Research in Education
• UIUC MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT– University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• NCSA– National Center for Super Computer Applications
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Definition of a Knot
• A knot is a simple closed curve K in R3, such that K is homeomorphic to a circle.
• IlliTantrix works with stick knots – knots composed of a finite number of sticks.
Smooth knot
Stick knot
Examples:
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Projections of a knot
• A knot in R3 can be projected onto a plane.
• Different projections of the same knot may have a different number of crossings (places where the projection intersects itself.)
Two projections of a trefoil knot
3 crossings
6 crossings
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Regular projections
• We are interested in regions of regularity – those projections in which you can definitely count the number of crossings.
• These regions will be separated by curves of irregular projections.
Examples of irregular projections:
trisecants
overlapping edges
vertices on edges
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Crossing map
• The crossing map of a knot captures the change in the number of crossings you see as you change your view of the knot.
• A point on the sphere corresponds to a direction in which to view the knot. This view will have a number of crossings. The crossing map assigns each point on the sphere this number.
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Aim of the project
The aim of this project is to visualize the crossing map of a knot in a real-time interactive computer animator (RTICA).
It was inspired by the work of Colin Adams.
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Features of the crossing map
• Moving across 1-curves, the number of crossings changes by one.
1 - curves
Change of view across a 1-curve:
this is where the 1-curve is
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• The tantrix (tangent indicatrix) is the curve of directions of unit tangent vectors of the knot.
• For stick knots, this is the arc of the great circle connecting two consecutive directions.
• When looking in a tangent direction, you will see part of a 1-curve.
Tantrix
Two edges of the knot and the corresponding part of the 1-curve
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Features of the crossing map
• Moving across 2-curves, the number of crossings changes by two.
2-curves
change of view across the 2-curve:
this is where the 2-curve is
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Constructing the 2-curve
• The two edges adjacent to the vertex v lie on the same side of the plane spanned by v and edge e.
• The 2-curve is the arc of the great circle connecting the two vectors from v to the endpoints of e.
v
e
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Trisecant Curves
• A trisecant is a triple of collinear points of the knot.
• The trisecant curve captures the directions in which you see a trisecant.
• Moving across trisecant curves does not change the number of crossings. this is where the trisecant is
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Trisecant Curves
• We care about trisecant curves because we know that when a trisecant curve intersects itself, there is a quadrisecant.
• Since we know that every knot has a quadrisecant, we also know that every knot has a projection with a least six crossings.
Changing our view from a quadrisecant, we see six crossings:
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Vertex-Eye View curves
• Vertex-Eye View curves are curves on the crossing map that represent all the directions in which you would look from a specified vertex, V , and see a part of the knot.
• Parts of the VEV curve correspond to parts of the 1, 2 and trisecant curves.
Vi
i
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When curves meet
• Curves often meet and intersect each other on the crossing map. When that happens, we can predict the change in the number of crossings in the adjacent regions.
1
1
k
k+1
k+1
k+2
If two 1-curves intersect:
1
2
k
k+1k+3
k+2
If a 1-curve and a 2-curve intersect:
1
2
kk+1
k+2
If a 2-curve meets a 1-curve:
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When curves meet
• In some situations, there are two regions whose number of crossings differs by 4.
• We also know that for any knot that is not an unknot, the minimum number of crossings in any projection is 3.
If two 2-curves intersect:
2
2
k
k+2k+4
k+2If a 2-curve is
intersected by two 1-curves going in the
same direction:
2
1 1
k
k+2 k+4
k+2
k+3
k+1
If we could prove that any trefoil knot’s crossing map contains at least one of these cases, then we would know that every trefoil has a projection with at least 7 crossings, a conjecture knot theorists have been trying to prove.
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Future developments
• The trisecant curve requires a lot of calculation to derive. For that reason, it is not currently calculated in IlliTantrix.
• One of the future changes could be to add the trisecant curve to the program.
Trisecant curve
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Future developments
• A point and its antipode have the same number of crossings.Thus, the crossing map is actually a map from RP Z .
• In the future, one could change the visualization of the crossing map to represent that.
A more accurate visualization of the crossing map
2 +