Energies of knot diagrams

DOI10.1134/S1061920811030046MaRDI QIDQ455592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Karpenkov, A. B. Sosinskiĭ

Publication date 22 October 2012

Published in Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3414

zbMATH Keywords

curvatureknot diagramReidemeister movesKnot energyknot energy minimum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We introduce and begin the study of new knot energies defined on knot diagrams. Physically, they model the internal energy of thin metallic solid tori squeezed between two parallel planes. Thus the knots considered can perform the second and third Reidemeister moves, but not the first one. The energy functionals considered are the sum of two terms, the uniformization term (which tends to make the curvature of the knot uniform) and the resistance term (which, in particular, forbids crossing changes). We define an infinite family of uniformization functionals, depending on an arbitrary smooth function $f$ and study the simplest nontrivial case $f(x)=x^2$, obtaining neat normal forms (corresponding to minima of the functional) by making use of the Gauss representation of immersed curves, of the phase space of the pendulum, and of elliptic functions.

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