Variational formulae and estimates of O’Hara’s knot energies

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500170zbMATH Open1441.53001arXiv1908.11677MaRDI QIDQ5111674FDOQ5111674

Takeyuki Nagasawa, Shoya Kawakami

Publication date: 27 May 2020

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

Abstract: O'Hara's energies, introduced by Jun O'Hara, were proposed to answer the question of what is the canonical shape in a given knot type, and were configured so that the less the energy value of a knot is, the "better" its shape is. The existence and regularity of minimizers has been well studied. In this article, we calculate the first and second variational formulae of the $(alpha,p)$-O'Hara energies and show absolute integrability, uniform boundedness, and continuity properties. Although several authors have already considered the variational formulae of the $(alpha,1)$-O'Hara energies, their techniques do not seem to be applicable to the case $p>1$. We obtain the variational formulae in a novel manner by extracting a certain function from the energy density. All of the $(alpha,p)$-energies are made from this function, and by analyzing it, we obtain not only the variational formulae but also estimates in several function spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11677

zbMATH Keywords

estimatesknot energyvariational formulaeO'Hara's energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

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