Rigid isotopy of maximally writhed links

Abstract

This is a sequel to the paper MO-mw which identified maximally writhed algebraic links in 3 and classified them topologically. In this paper we prove that all maximally writhed links of the same topological type are rigidly isotopic, i.e. one can be deformed into another with a family of smooth real algebraic links of the same degree.

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