ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE MINIMUM DISTANCE ENERGY OF A POLYGONAL KNOT AND THE MÖBIUS ENERGY OF AN APPROXIMATING CURVE

DOI10.1142/S0218216510008303zbMath1206.57010OpenAlexW1963732532MaRDI QIDQ4930562

Joseph Worthington, Eric J. Rawdon

Publication date: 29 September 2010

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218216510008303

zbMATH Keywords

ropelengthknot energyMöbius energygeometric knotsminimum-distance energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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