Knot Types, Homotopies and Stability of Closed Elastic Rods

DOI10.1112/S0024611599011983zbMath1036.53001arXivmath/9901131MaRDI QIDQ4487579

Thomas A. Ivey, David A. Singer

Publication date: 22 June 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9901131

zbMATH Keywords

torsionLagrange multipliercurvatureelastic rodspace curveelastic curvetorus knotFrenet equationselastic rod centerline

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