Farthest points on flat surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00022-018-0448-9MaRDI QIDQ1990609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joël Rouyer, Costin Vîlcu

Publication date 25 October 2018

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03507

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov surfacecut locusflat Klein bottleflat torusVoronoi diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We consider the distance function from an arbitrary point $p$ on a flat surface, and determine the set $F_p$ of all emph{farthest points} (i.e., points at maximal distance) from $p$.

Review text

A recent result by the authors states that on most (in the sense of Baire categories) Alexandrov surfaces most points have a unique farthest point. Notable exceptions are flat tori and flat Klein bottles. An elementary treatment of the farthest point map for these surfaces is the topic of this paper. Denote by \(F_p\) the set of all farthest points of \(p\) and by \(F^n_p\) the set of all farthest points of \(p\) which are joined to \(p\) be exactly \(n\) segments. If the flat torus is obtained by identifying opposite sides of a parallelogram, then \(\# F_p = \# F_p^3 = 2\) in general and \(\# F_p = \# F_p^4 = 1\) precisely for rectangles. The case of a flat Klein bottle, obtained by suitable identification of opposite sides in a rectangle, is more complicated. Results not only depend on the side lengths but also on the point's distance to the main geodesics. In all cases one has \(\# F_p = \# F_p^n = k\) for some \(n \in \{3, 4\}\) and some \(k \in \{1, 2\}\).

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