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Modeling repulsive forces on fibres via knot energies

Simon Blatt, Philipp Reiter (2014)

Molecular Based Mathematical Biology

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Modeling of repulsive forces is essential to the understanding of certain bio-physical processes, especially for the motion of DNA molecules. These kinds of phenomena seem to be driven by some sort of “energy” which especially prevents the molecules from strongly bending and forming self-intersections. Inspired by a physical toy model, numerous functionals have been defined during the past twenty-five years that aim at modeling self-avoidance. The general idea is to produce “detangled”...

The Knot Spectrum of Confined Random Equilateral Polygons

Y. Diao, C. Ernst, A. Montemayor, E. Rawdon, U. Ziegler (2014)

Molecular Based Mathematical Biology

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It is well known that genomic materials (long DNA chains) of living organisms are often packed compactly under extreme confining conditions using macromolecular self-assembly processes but the general DNA packing mechanism remains an unsolved problem. It has been proposed that the topology of the packed DNA may be used to study the DNA packing mechanism. For example, in the case of (mutant) bacteriophage P4, DNA molecules packed inside the bacteriophage head are considered to be circular...

Homogeneity of dynamically defined wild knots.

Gabriela Hinojosa, Alberto Verjovsky (2006)

Revista Matemática Complutense

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In this paper we prove that a wild knot K which is the limit set of a Kleinian group acting conformally on the unit 3-sphere, with its standard metric, is homogeneous: given two points p, q ∈ K, there exists a homeomorphism f of the sphere such that f(K) = K and f(p) = q. We also show that if the wild knot is a fibered knot then we can choose an f which preserves the fibers.

Lissajous knots and billiard knots

Vaughan Jones, Józef Przytycki (1998)

Banach Center Publications

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We show that Lissajous knots are equivalent to billiard knots in a cube. We consider also knots in general 3-dimensional billiard tables. We analyse symmetry of knots in billiard tables and show in particular that the Alexander polynomial of a Lissajous knot is a square modulo 2.

Braids in Pau – An Introduction

Enrique Artal Bartolo, Vincent Florens (2011)

Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal

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In this work, we describe the historic links between the study of 3 -dimensional manifolds (specially knot theory) and the study of the topology of complex plane curves with a particular attention to the role of braid groups and Alexander-like invariants (torsions, different instances of Alexander polynomials). We finish with detailed computations in an example.