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Smooth-Rolling Knots

Brodeur, Max
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Vidulis, Michele  
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Dandy, Liliane-Joy
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July 14, 2025
Bridges Eindhoven 2025 Conference Proceedings. Mathematics and the Arts
Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts

Morton's knots are a family of space curves to which there is no plane simultaneously tangent in three distinct points. This property enables a physical instance to roll on a plane while having at most two contact points with it. These knots are not smooth-rolling, i.e. they require a force to provoke a rolling motion, during which their center of mass oscillates up and down. By drawing a connection between Morton's knots and smooth-rolling Two-Disk Rollers, we design new smooth-rolling knots. These curves preserve the mesmerizing rolling behavior of Morton's knots while requiring only an infinitesimal force to be set in motion. We apply our method to a variety of knots beyond Morton's family, obtaining tightly-winding, smooth-rolling knots with different topologies.

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