Elastic knots in Euclidean 3-space

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(99)80010-9zbMath0935.49023MaRDI QIDQ1284416

Heiko von der Mosel

Publication date: 4 May 2000

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1999__16_2_137_0

zbMATH Keywords

curvature functionals; closed knotted curves; existence in isotopy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J40: Variational inequalities

49N60: Regularity of solutions in optimal control

49Q10: Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

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