Energy, ropelength, and other physical aspects of equilateral knots

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 426-456

  Millett, Kenneth C ^a   Rawdon, Eric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilateral knots; Knot energy; Knot space; Polygonal knots; Ropelength; Thickness

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ENERGY; EQUILATERAL KNOT; KNOT ENERGY; KNOT SPACE; MACROMOLECULAR CHAIN; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; POLYGONAL KNOT; ROPELENGTH; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; THICKNESS;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0037431127     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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