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arxiv: math/0701913 · v3 · submitted 2007-01-31 · 🧮 math.DG

Skew loops in flat tori

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We produce skew loops -- loops having no pair of parallel tangent lines -- homotopic to any loop in a flat torus or other quotient of R^n. The interesting case here is n=3. More subtly for any n, we characterize the homotopy classes that will contain a skew loop having a specified loop in the unit sphere as tangent indicatrix.

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