Philipp Reiter, Duisburg Essen University, “Repulsive energies”
SAS 4201During the last thirty years, several (families of) functionals have been defined which model self-avoidance: their values tend to infinity if an embedded object degenerates, e.g., if a sequence of closed simple curves converges to a curve with a self-intersection. Many of these functionals exhibit regularizing effects: they not only ensure embeddedness but in fact…