Abstract
We realize closed geodesics on the real conformal compactification of the space V = Sym(2, ℝ) of all 2 × 2 real symmetric matrices as knots or 2-component links in S2 × S1 and show that these knots or links have certain types of symmetry of period 2.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 241-252 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Fundamenta Mathematicae |
| Volume | 164 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- 2-periodic knot
- Geodesic
- Shilov boundary
- Symmetric matrix