Topological entropic force between a pair of random knots forming a fixed link

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 343-362

  Deguchi, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812703460_0018     Document Type: Chapter

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