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Main Author: Hass, Joel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01737
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  • This paper examines the relationship between the knotting of an embedded surface in $\R^3$ and the knotting of its fold curves, formed by the singular set of projection to a plane. The first result shows that every surface, no matter how knotted, can be isotoped so that its fold curves form an unlink. A second result defines a new invariant which gives a complete obstruction to turning a fixed curve on a surface into a fold curve.