Paper
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The manuscript **“Discriminant Varieties for Stick Knots and Links”** by
Alexander Kolpakov and Igor Rivin is authoritative for this project.

* `Read the compiled PDF <knot_fewnomials.pdf>`__.
* `Download the TeX source <knot_fewnomials.tex>`__.

The documentation summarizes the result and explains the accompanying code,
but does not maintain a separate version of the mathematical argument. If a
summary here and the manuscript ever differ, the manuscript controls.

The paper is version-dated August 2, 2026.