Crossings and writhe of flexible and ideal knots

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2 I, 2001, Pages 0215061-0215066

  Huang, Juin Yan ^a   Lai, Pik Yin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROTEINS; TOPOLOGY;

KNOTTED RING POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 4243653687     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.021506     Document Type: Article

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