POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION AND ENERGY OF SMOOTH KNOTS

DOI10.1142/S0218216506004543MaRDI QIDQ5470141zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eric J. Rawdon, Jonathan K. Simon

Publication date 29 May 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305414

zbMATH Keywords

knotspolynomial approximationKnot energyminimum distance energyMöbuis energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Abstract: We establish a fundamental connection between smooth and polygonal knot energies, showing that the Minimum Distance Energy for polygons inscribed in a smooth knot converges to the Moebius Energy of the smooth knot as the polygons converge to the smooth knot. However, the polygons must converge in a ``nice way, and the energies must be correctly regularized. We determine an explicit error bound between the energies in terms of the number of the edges of the polygon and the Ropelength of the smooth curve.

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