Mathematics
- Isotopy, a continuous path of homeomorphisms connecting two given homeomorphisms is an isotopy of the two given homeomorphisms in homotopy
- Regular isotopy of a link diagram, an equivalence relation in knot theory
- Ambient isotopy (or h-isotopy), two subsets of a fixed topological space are ambient isotopic if there is a homeomorphism, isotopic to the identity map of the ambient space, which carries one subset to the other.
- Isotopy of quasigroups. See Quasigroup#Homotopy and isotopy.
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