Finding Good Coordinates for Sampling Configuration Spaces

Clayton Shonkwiler

Colorado State University

shonkwiler.org

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References

Symplectic geometry and connectivity of spaces of frames

Tom Needham and Clayton Shonkwiler

Advances in Computational Mathematics 47 (2021), no. 1, 5

The symplectic geometry of closed equilateral random walks in 3-space

Jason Cantarella and Clayton Shonkwiler

Annals of Applied Probability 26 (2016), no. 1, 549–596

A fast direct sampling algorithm for equilateral closed polygons

Jason Cantarella, Bernard Duplantier, Clayton Shonkwiler, and Erica Uehara

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 49 (2016), no. 27, 275202

New stick number bounds from random sampling of confined polygons

Thomas D. Eddy and Clayton Shonkwiler

Experimental Mathematics, DOI: 10.1080/10586458.2021.1926000