{ "id": "1710.11034", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-10-30T16:03:41.000Z", "updated": "2017-10-30T16:03:41.000Z", "title": "Classification of Engel Knots", "authors": [ "Roger Casals", "Álvaro del Pino" ], "comment": "10 Pages, 3 Figures. Comments welcome !", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.SG" ], "abstract": "For any Engel 4-fold, we show that the scanning map from the space of Engel knots to the space of formal Engel knots is a weak homotopy equivalence when restricted to the complement of the orbits of the Engel kernel. This is a relative, parametric and close h-principle.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-10-30T16:03:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "classification", "weak homotopy equivalence", "formal engel knots", "engel kernel", "close h-principle" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }