Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Degree
Fall 2017
Degree Name
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Degree In
Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
First Advisor
Isabel K. Darcy
First Committee Member
Maggy Tomova
Second Committee Member
Keith Stroyan
Third Committee Member
Colleen Mitchell
Fourth Committee Member
Cynthia Farthing
Abstract
A knot can be thought of as a knotted piece of string with the ends glued together. A tangle is formed by intersecting a knot with a 3-dimensional ball. The portion of the knot in the interior of the ball along with the fixed intersection points on the surface of the ball form the tangle. Tangles can be used to model protein- DNA binding, so another way to think of a tangle is in terms of segments of DNA (the strings) bounded by the protein complex (the 3-dimensional ball). In this thesis, we look at an algorithm used to list tangles. We also classify tangles into families.
Pages
ix, 95 pages
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-95).
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 Christine Caples