The elastic trefoil is the doubly covered circle

DOI10.1007/s00205-017-1100-9zbMath1385.53002arXiv1510.06171OpenAlexW3104968610MaRDI QIDQ529847

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 9 June 2017

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06171

zbMATH Keywords

knotsenergy minimizerelasticaeelastic knotstrefoil knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

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Uses Software

• KnotInfo

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