Title
Upper bounds for equilateral stick numbers
Department/School
Mathematics
Date
1-1-2002
Document Type
Article
Keywords
upper bounds, equilateral stick numbers
Abstract
We use algorithms in the software KnotPlot to compute upper bounds for the equilateral stick numbers of all prime knots through 10 crossings, i.e., the least number of equal length line segments it takes to construct a conformation of each knot type. We find seven knots for which we cannot construct an equilateral conformation with the same number of edges as a minimal non-equilateral conformation, notably the 8 19 knot.
Published in
Contemporary Mathematics
COinS
Citation/Other Information
Rawdon, E.J. & Scharein, R.G. (2002). Upper bounds for equilateral stick numbers. In Calvo, J.C., Millett, K.C., and Rawdon, E.J., Physical knots: knotting, linking, and folding geometric objects in R^3, (304). 10.1090/conm/304/05184.