Global Knotting in Equilateral Random Polygons

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 597-607

  Diao, Y ^a   Nardo, J C ^b   Sun, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilateral Random Polygons; Equilateral Random Walks; Frisch Wasserman Delbr ck Conjecture; Random Knotting; Random Polygons; Random Walks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035592909     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216501001025     Document Type: Article

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