The original paper, first published in the scientific journal Nature:

    Thomas M. Fink and Yong Mao,
    `Designing Tie Knots Using Random Walks,'
    Nature, 398, 31 (1999).   pdf


The uncut version, with all the mathematical details:

    Thomas M. Fink and Yong Mao,
    `Tie Knots, Random Walks and Topology,'
    Physica A, 276, 109 (2000).   pdf


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