On the groundstate energy of tight knots

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2008.0536zbMATH Open1186.76699arXiv0905.3805OpenAlexW1969871667MaRDI QIDQ3561983FDOQ3561983

Authors: Francesca Maggioni, Renzo L. Ricca 

Publication date: 19 May 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: New results on the groundstate energy of tight, magnetic knots are presented. Magnetic knots are defined as tubular embeddings of the magnetic field in an ideal, perfectly conducting, incompressible fluid. An orthogonal, curvilinear coordinate system is introduced and the magnetic energy is determined by the poloidal and toroidal components of the magnetic field. Standard minimization of the magnetic energy is carried out under the usual assumptions of volume- and flux-preserving flow, with the additional constraints that the tube cross-section remains circular and that the knot length (ropelength) is independent from internal field twist (framing). Under these constraints the minimum energy is determined analytically by a new, exact expression, function of ropelength and framing. Groundstate energy levels of tight knots are determined from ropelength data obtained by the SONO tightening algorithm developed by Pieranski (Pieranski, 1998) and collaborators. Results for torus knots are compared with previous work done by Chui & Moffatt (1995), and the groundstate energy spectrum of the first prime knots (up to 10 crossings) is presented and analyzed in detail. These results demonstrate that ropelength and framing determine the spectrum of magnetic knots in tight configuration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3805

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zbMATH Keywords

energy minimizerropelengthmagnetic relaxationmagnetic knotsideal shapes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02)

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