Circles minimize most knot energies

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00016-2zbMath1030.57006arXivmath/0105138OpenAlexW1998938425MaRDI QIDQ1863513

Jason Cantarella, Mohammad Ghomi, Ralph Howard, Aaron Abrams, Joseph Howland Guthrie Fu

Publication date: 11 March 2003

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105138

zbMATH Keywords

knot energyO'Hara's knot energies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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