Singular Knot

A smooth map whose image has singularities. In particular, in the theory of Vassiliev's knot invariants, singular knots with a finite number of ordinary double points play an important role.

See also

Ordinary Double Point, Vassiliev Invariant

This entry contributed by Sergei Duzhin

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