Jun O'Hara, legally named , is a Japanese mathematician who works on the fields of low-dimensional topology and knot theory. He is a professor at Chiba University.
He is known for his discovery of Möbius energy, a type of knot energy.Alexey Sossinsky . "Normal forms of wire knots and the Euler functional:a new approach to knot energy" Independent University of Moscow booklet "Knots and Links in Fluid Flows –from helicity to knot energies" (27-30 April 2015), p.12
He was born on 29 March 1963 in Hiroshima, Japan.
He was a PhD student of Takashi Tsuboi at the University of Tokyo.
Selected publications Energy of knots and conformal geometry. World Scientific, Singapore, (2003). "Energy of a knot", Topology v. 30 n. 2, pp. 241–247 (1991)
See also Knot energy
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