Predicting optimal lengths of random knots

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 239-247

  Dobay, Akos ^a   Sottas, Pierre Edouard ^a,b   Dubochet, Jacques ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biophysics; DNA; Knots; Polymers; Random walks; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009299719     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010921318473     Document Type: Article

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