Elastic knots in euclidean 3-space
Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 16 (1999) no. 2, pp. 137-166. 
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von der Mosel, Heiko. Elastic knots in euclidean 3-space. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 16 (1999) no. 2, pp. 137-166. http://archive.numdam.org/item/AIHPC_1999__16_2_137_0/

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