They Cried for Help
Chinen, Jon J. Energy of knots is a theory that was introduced to create a canonical configuration of a knot - a beautiful knot which represents its knot type. This book introduces several kinds of energies, and studies the problem of whether or not there is a canonical configuration of a knot in each knot type. It also considers this problems in the context of conformal geometry. The energies presented in the book are defined geometrically. They measure the...