nLab boxed knot

Definition

A boxed knot is an embedding of a polygonal curve into a cube $[0,1]^3$, intersecting the boundary exactly at the center points of two opposite faces.

Related concepts

• knot sum

References

• Alexei B. Sossinsky, §3.1 in: Knots, Links and Their Invariants: An Elementary Course in Contemporary Knot Theory, The Student Mathematical Library 101, AMS (2023) [doi:10.1090/stml/101]