Ropelength of tight polygonal knots

Physical And Numerical Models In Knot Theory: Including Applications To The Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 293-321

  Baranska, Justyna ^a   Pieranski, Piotr ^a   Rawdon, Eric J ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812703460_0016     Document Type: Chapter

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