Seminar series
Date
Mon, 08 Mar 2004
17:00
17:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Friedemann Schuricht
Organisation
Cologne
Let gamma be a closed knotted curve in R^3 such that the tubular
neighborhood U_r (gamma) with given radius r>0 does not intersect
itself. The length minimizing curve gamma_0 within a prescribed knot class is
called ideal knot. We use a special representation of curves and tools from
nonsmooth analysis to derive a characterization of ideal knots. Analogous
methods can be used for the treatment of self contact of elastic rods.