By Jun O'Hara
Strength of knots is a idea that was once brought to create a "canonical configuration" of a knot — a gorgeous knot which represents its knot variety. This publication introduces numerous sorts of energies, and reports the matter of even if there's a "canonical configuration" of a knot in every one knot sort. It additionally considers this difficulties within the context of conformal geometry. The energies offered within the e-book are outlined geometrically. They degree the complexity of embeddings and feature purposes to actual knotting and unknotting via numerical experiments.
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1 , . 14) -^—)dsdt. 15) Since the integrand is non-negative and not identically zero E(a\h) for any knot h when 1 < a < 3. >0 (2) When 3 < a < 4 F («> m _ ff ( l WW2 y . , . i (3) When 4 < a < 5 F(«)(hs = 1J ff ( i L _ "l ft// ( sa)l22 yy^xsAl^)-^)! 01 d(S)*)« 24d(s7t) ~ a(h"{s),h<-3\s)) 24d(s,i)°- 3 dsdt. E^(h) for a > 5 is given similarly. We call a the index of E^a>. The integrand of E^(h) is divided into the principal term \h(s) — h(t)\~a and the counter term to cancel the blow up of the integral.
This implies t h a t if a < 2 then E^ takes a finite value even for a "singular knot" with a self-intersection, and hence E^ is not self-repulsive. 1)). Let h b e a knot with \h"\ = 1 a n d b = E^a\h) (b > 0). Let s , i b e points in S 1 = [ 0 , 1 ] / - with 0