Knotted surfaces as vanishing sets of polynomials
- 22 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mathematical Society of Japan (Project Euclid) in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
- Vol. 73 (4), 1-34
- https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/84618461
Abstract
We present an algorithm that takes as input any element $B$ of the loop braid group and constructs a polynomial $f:\mathbb{R}^5 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ such that the intersection of the vanishing set of $f$ and the unit 4-sphere contains the closure of $B$. The polynomials can be used to create real analytic time-dependent vector fields with zero divergence and closed flow lines that move as prescribed by $B$. We also show how a family of surface braids in $\mathbb{C} \times S^1 \times S^1$ without branch points can be constructed as the vanishing set of a holomorphic polynomial $f:\mathbb{C}^3 \to \mathbb{C}$ on $\mathbb{C} \times S^1 \times S^1 \subset \mathbb{C}^3$. Both constructions allow us to give upper bounds on the degree of the polynomials.
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