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The ideal trefoil knot

Computational Physics 2009-11-07 v1 General Physics

Abstract

The most tight conformation of the trefoil knot found by the SONO algorithm is presented. Structure of the set of its self-contact points is analyzed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0103039,
  title  = {The ideal trefoil knot},
  author = {P. Pieranski and S. Przybyl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0103039},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 8 figures