Geometry of Călugăreanu's theorem

DOI10.1098/rspa.2005.1527zbMath1370.53003arXivmath-ph/0503012MaRDI QIDQ5428308

Mark Dennis, J. H. Hannay

Publication date: 21 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0503012

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss map; linking number; twist; writhe; ribbon; curve framing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

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