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Remarkably there’s really just one way to tie them together, you can always manipulate the knot to move between the different variants
by masterjack 1y ago
Remarkably there’s really just one way to tie them together, you can always manipulate the knot to move between the different variants
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> Remarkably there’s really just one way to tie them together I would rather assume (but knot theorists shall correct me if I'm wrong) that there exist two ways of tying them together: Cut knots K, L at some point; denote the loose ends by K1, K2, L1, L2. - Option 1: connect K1 <-> L1, K2 <-> L2 - Option 2: connect K1 <-> L2, K2 <-> L1
- cottonseed 1y agoThose are the same. To see that, just flip over L before performing the connect sum.
- cluckindan 1y agoIf they are the same, the mirrored double-chiral knot from the article would have identical properties even if one of the knots wasn’t mirrored.