Secondary invariants for links
A coordinate cone in is an intersection of some coordinate hyperplanes and open coordinate half-spaces. A semi-monotone set is an open bounded subset of , definable in an o-minimal structure over the reals, such that its intersection with any translation of any coordinate cone is connected. This notion can be viewed as a generalization of convexity. Semi-monotone sets have a number of interesting geometric and combinatorial properties. The main result of the paper is that every semi-monotone...
Define for a smooth compact hypersurface of its crumpleness as the ratio , where is the distance from to its central set. (In other words, is the maximal radius of an open non-selfintersecting tube around in We prove that any -dimensional non-singular compact algebraic hypersurface of degree is rigidly isotopic to an algebraic hypersurface of degree and of crumpleness . Here , depend only on , and rigid isotopy means an isotopy passing only through hypersurfaces of degree...
We show that there exist non-trivial piecewise linear (PL) knots with isolated singularities , n ≥ 5, whose complements have the homotopy type of a circle. This is in contrast to the case of smooth, PL locally flat, and topological locally flat knots, for which it is known that if the complement has the homotopy type of a circle, then the knot is trivial.