Local Writhing Dynamics
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-30 v2 Statistical Mechanics
dg-ga
Differential Geometry
Abstract
We present an alternative local definition of the writhe of a self-avoiding closed loop which differs from the traditional non-local definition by an integer. When studying dynamics this difference is immaterial. We employ a formula due to Aldinger, Klapper and Tabor for the change in writhe and propose a set of local, link preserving dynamics in an attempt to unravel some puzzles about actin.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9703137,
title = {Local Writhing Dynamics},
author = {Randall D. Kamien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9703137},
year = {2009}
}
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plain TeX, harvmac + epsf, 11 pages, 1 included eps figure. Reference added