In a recent paper, Gallego, González and Purnaprajna showed that rational 3-ropes can be smoothed. We generalise their proof, and obtain smoothability of rational m-ropes for m ≥ 3.

Define for a smooth compact hypersurface $M^n$ of ${\mathbf{R}}^{n+1}$ its crumpleness $\kappa \left(M^n\right)$ as the ratio ${diam}_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n+1}}(M^n)/r(M^n)$, where $r\left(M^n\right)$ is the distance from $M^n$ to its central set. (In other words, $r\left(M^n\right)$ is the maximal radius of an open non-selfintersecting tube around $M^n$ in ${\mathbf{R}}^{n+1}.)$We prove that any $n$-dimensional non-singular compact algebraic hypersurface of degree $d$ is rigidly isotopic to an algebraic hypersurface of degree $d$ and of crumpleness $\le exp\left(c\right(n\left)d^{\alpha \left(n\right)d^{n+1}}\right)$. Here $c\left(n\right)$, $\alpha \left(n\right)$ depend only on $n$, and rigid isotopy means an isotopy passing only through hypersurfaces of degree...

Soient $k$ un corps commutatif et $I=(p_1,\cdots ,p_m)k_n\left[X\right]$ un idéal de l’anneau des polynômes $k[X_1,\cdots ,X_n]$ (éventuellement $I=k_n\left[X\right]$). Nous prouvons une conjecture de C. Berenstein - A. Yger qui affirme que pour tout polynôme $p$, élément de la clôture intégrale $\overline{I}$ de l’idéal $I$, on a une représentation$$p^m=\sum _{1\le i\le m}{p}_i{q}_i,\text{avec}maxdeg\left(q_i{p}_i\right)\le mdegp+m{d}_1\cdots d_m,$$où $d_i=deg{p}_i,1\le i\le m$.