The first rational Chebyshev knots

  • Authors:
  • P. -V. Koseleff;D. Pecker;F. Rouillier

  • Affiliations:
  • UPMC-Paris 6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), France and INRIA-Paris-Rocquencourt Salsa, France and LIP6 (Laboratoire dInformatique de Paris 6, CNRS-UMR 7606), France;UPMC-Paris 6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), France;UPMC-Paris 6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), France and INRIA-Paris-Rocquencourt Salsa, France and LIP6 (Laboratoire dInformatique de Paris 6, CNRS-UMR 7606), France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A Chebyshev knot C(a,b,c,@f) is a knot which has a parametrization of the form x(t)=T"a(t);y(t)=T"b(t);z(t)=T"c(t+@f), where a,b,c are integers, T"n(t) is the Chebyshev polynomial of degree n and @f@?R. We show that any rational knot is a Chebyshev knot with a=3 and also with a=4. For every a,b,c integers (a=3,4 and a, b coprime), we describe an algorithm that gives all Chebyshev knots C(a,b,c,@f). We deduce the list of minimal Chebyshev representations of rational knots with 10 or fewer crossings.