What are the longest ropes on the unit sphere?

DOI10.1007/s00205-010-0390-yzbMath1268.49050OpenAlexW2100626528MaRDI QIDQ715299

Heiko von der Mosel, Henryk Gerlach

Publication date: 5 November 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/171307/files/205_2010_Article_390.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

longest ropes on the unit sphereminimal thicknesssphere filling curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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