%0 Journal Article %T New lower bound for the distortion of a knotted curve %A T. Bereznyak %A P. Svetlov %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X We prove that distortion of a knotted curve in $\R^3$ is great than 4.76. This improves a result obtained by John M. Sullivan and Elizabeth Denne in \cite{DS}. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612472v1