The homothety conjecture for infinity-shaped extremal curves
The homothety conjecture for infinity-shaped extremal curves
Let be a closed extremal curve determined by a pendulum trajectory , and let denote the complete elliptic integral of the first kind. For a nonzero integer , consider satisfying
Homothety conjecture. All infinity-shaped extremal curves are homothetic to the curve for this choice of , where .
This conjecture identifies the nontrivial extremal shape numerically obtained from the pendulum equation and predicts that all infinity-shaped extremal curves differ only by scaling and parametrization. The source provides numerical evidence but no proof or resolution.
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Primary source
Oleg Karpenkov and Alexey Sossinsky, “Energies of knot diagrams”, arXiv:1106.3414 (2011).
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