Symmetric critical knots for O'Hara's energies

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.04.014MaRDI QIDQ1637112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexandra Gilsbach, Heiko von der Mosel

Publication date 7 June 2018

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06949

zbMATH Keywords

knot energysymmetric criticalitytorus knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Abstract: We prove the existence of symmetric critical torus knots for O'Hara's knot energy family $E_{a}lpha$, $alphain(2,3)$ using Palais' classic principle of symmetric criticality. It turns out that in every torus knot class there are at least two smooth $E_{a}lpha$-critical knots, which supports experimental observations using numerical gradient flows.

Review text

The authors deal with O'Hara's energies of knots introduced in [\textit{J. O'Hara}, Topology Appl. 48, No. 2, 147--161 (1992; Zbl 0769.57006)]. They prove the existence of symmetric critical torus knots for O'Hara's energies \(E_\alpha\) for \(\alpha \in (2,3)\). The proof is based in Palais' principle of symmetric criticality. In particularly the authors have spotted that in every torus knot class there are at least two smooth \(E_\alpha\)-critical knots. This result supports experimental observations using numerical gradient flows.

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