In Search of a Good Polygonal Knot Energy
Let \({\mathcal P}\) denote the collection of equilateral polygons in 3-space. An energy function of polygonal knots is a continuous, scale invariant function \(f:{\mathcal P} \to\mathbb{R} \cup \infty\). It is shown that the energy function \(E\) defined by \[ E(P_{2n}) =\max_{1\leq i\leq 2n, 2\leq k\leq n} L^2\left( {1\over d^2_{i,k}} -{1\over s^2_{i,k}} \right) \] satisfies a number of useful conditions, where \(L\) is the length of \(P_{2n}\), \(d_{i,k}\) is the Euclidean distance between the edges \(e_i\) and \(e_{i+k}\) of the polygon \(P_{2n}\) and \(s_{i,k}\) is the arc length from \(e_i\) to \(e_{i+k}\). Numerical methods are used to approximate the energy minima of this function over polygons representing a particular knot type.
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