Circles minimize most knot energies

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Publication:1863513


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


49Q10: Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)


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