Surfaces Defined on Torus Knots
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A torus knot is a particular type of knot that is defined on the surface of an unknotted torus. It is possible to define a surface whose edges coincide with a knot or link, which can be a non-oriented surface, as presented in this Demonstration, or an orientable surface, in which case it is named a Seifert surface, for Herbert Seifert, who introduced a general method for any knot in 1934.
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Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (March 2015)
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A torus knot is defined as
where is the link crossing number.
References
[1] J. J. van Wijk, "Seifert Surfaces," Mathematical Imagery. (Feb 11, 2015) www.ams.org/mathimagery/thumbnails.php?album=14.
[2] J. J. van Wijk and A. M. Cohen, "Visualization of Seifert Surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1(10), 2006. www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/vanwijk.pdf.
[3] The Knot Atlas. (Feb 11, 2015) katlas.math.toronto.edu/wiki/Main_Page.
[4] A. Gray, "Torus Knots," Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed., Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997 pp. 209-215.
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