Möbius energy of knots and unknots

DOI10.2307/2946626zbMath0817.57011OpenAlexW2122724852MaRDI QIDQ1319109

Zheng-Xu He, Zhenghan Wang, Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 12 April 1994

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2946626

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Möbius invariancetopologically tameaverage crossing numbercurves which minimize the energyenergy of a simple closed curve in \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\)gradient of the energy

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