Special Session 45: 

O`hara`s knot energies and W^{1/p,p}-harmonic maps into spheres

Armin Schikorra
U Pittsburgh
USA
Co-Author(s):    S. Blatt, Ph. Reiter.
Abstract:
I will report on advances in the regularity theory for minimizers and critical points of a class of knot energies defined by Jun O`Hara. When parametrized by arclength the tangent field of these knots are critical points of a W^{1/p,p}-type energy, and we employ arguments from the regularity theory of W^{1/p,p}-harmonic maps into the sphere.