A characterization of shortest geodesics on surfaces (Q5934076)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1605731
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1605731 |
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A characterization of shortest geodesics on surfaces (English)
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18 June 2001
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The publication concerns a characterization of shortest geodesics on surfaces. Any finite configuration of curves with minimal intersections on a surface is a configuration of shortest geoedesics for some Riemannian metric on the surface. The metric can be chosen so that the lengths of these geodesics are equal to the number of intersections along them.
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geodesics
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surfaces
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minimal intersections
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Riemannian metric
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