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Conformal invariance of the writhe of a knot

Rémi LangevinJun O'hara

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Mathematics - Differential GeometryPure mathematicsQuantitative Biology::BiomoleculesAlgebra and Number TheoryConformal mapGeometric Topology (math.GT)Mathematics::Geometric TopologyMathematics - Geometric TopologyDifferential Geometry (math.DG)Conformal symmetryFOS: Mathematics57M25 53A30Knot (mathematics)MathematicsWrithe

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We give a new proof of an old theorem by Banchoff and White 1975 that claims that the writhe of a knot is conformally invariant.

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0803.1876