Every knot is a billiard knot
Volume 100 / 2014
Banach Center Publications 100 (2014), 173-178
MSC: 57M25.
DOI: 10.4064/bc100-0-9
Abstract
We show that every knot can be realized as a billiard trajectory in a convex prism. This proves a conjecture of Jones and Przytycki.