A problem of Ulam about magnetic fields generated by knotted wires

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2017.117MaRDI QIDQ4968751zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Enciso, Daniel Peralta-Salas

Publication date 9 July 2019

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Topological and differential topological methods for problems in mechanics (70G40)

Abstract: In the context of magnetic fields generated by wires, we study the connection between the topology of the wire and the topology of the magnetic lines. We show that a generic knotted wire has a magnetic line of the same knot type, but that given any pair of knots there is a wire isotopic to the first knot having a magnetic line isotopic to the second. These questions can be traced back to Ulam in 1935.

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