Knot types of generalized Kirchhoff rods

DOI10.1142/S0218216519400108MaRDI QIDQ4973351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tom Needham

Publication date 3 December 2019

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09124

zbMATH Keywords

Kirchhoff elastic rodknot energyparameterized knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Infinite-dimensional manifolds (46T05) Knot theory (57K10) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20)

Abstract: Kirchhoff energy is a classical functional on the space of arclength-parameterized framed curves whose critical points approximate configurations of springy elastic rods. We introduce a generalized functional on the space of framed curves of arbitrary parameterization, which model rods with axial stretch or cross-sectional inflation. Our main result gives explicit parameterizations for all periodic critical framed curves for this generalized functional. The main technical tool is a correspondence between the moduli space of shape similarity classes of closed framed curves and an infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold. The critical framed curves have surprisingly simple parameterizations, but they still exhibit interesting topological features. In particular, we show that for each critical energy level there is a one-parameter family of framed curves whose base curves pass through exactly two torus knot types, echoing a similar result of Ivey and Singer for classical Kirchhoff energy. In contrast to the classical theory, the generalized functional has knotted critical points which are not torus knots.

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