Quantization of energy and writhe in self-repelling knots

Details Quantization of energy and writhe in self-repelling knots Quantization of energy and writhe in self-repelling knots

2002-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0201018v1

Physics

Computational Physics

LaTeX, 16 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/320

Probably the most natural energy functional to be considered for knotted strings is the one given by the electrostatic repulsion. In the absence of counter-charges, a charged, knotted string evolving along the energy gradient of electrostatic repulsion would progressively tighten its knotted domain into a point on a perfectly circular string. However, in the presence of charge screeningthe self-repelling knotted strings can get stabilised. It is known that energy functionals in which repulsive forces between repelling charges grow inversely proportional to the third or higher power of their relative distance stabilise self-repelling knots. Especially interesting is the case of the third power since the repulsive energy becomes scale invariant and does not change upon Moebius transformations (reflections in spheres) of knotted trajectories. We observe here thatknots minimising their repulsive Moebius energy show quantization of the energy and writhe (measure of chirality) within several tested families of knots.

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