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Regular Isotopy


The equivalence of manifolds under continuous deformation within the embedding space. Knots of opposite chirality have ambient isotopy, but not regular isotopy.


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Ambient Isotopy

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Regular Isotopy." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RegularIsotopy.html

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