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Stationary Points of O'Hara's Knot Energies

Simon Blatt, Philipp Reiter

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In this article we study the regularity of stationary points of the knot energies $E^α$ introduced by O'Hara in the range $α\in (2,3)$. In a first step we prove that $E^α$ is $C^1$ on the set of all regular embedded closed curves belonging to $H^{(α+1)/2,2}$ and calculate its derivative. After that we use the structure of the Euler-Lagrange equation to study the regularity of stationary points of $E^α$ plus a positive multiple of the length. We show that stationary points of finite energy are of class $C^\infty$ - so especially all local minimizers of $E^α$ among curves with fixed length are smooth.

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