Curved folding and planar cutting of simple closed curve on a conical origami (Q502126)

This paper generalizes the cut-and-fold theorem by which any polygon can be obtained by a single straight cut of a flat folding of a piece of paper. It establishes which simple closed plane curves can be obtained by cutting with a plane a conical folding of a piece of paper. This folding is a surface composed of half-lines with a common vertex. More precisely, a conical origami is a Lipschitz continuous piecewise \(C^1\) map \(u:\Omega\rightarrow \mathbb R^3\), where \(\Omega\) is a connected set in the plane, such that the differential of \(u\) has orthonormal columns outside the singular set, there exists a sequence of injective Lipschitz continuous maps which converges uniformly to \(u\) and \(u(tv)=tu(v)\) for all \(t\in\mathbb R\) such that \(v\) and \(vt\) lie in \(\Omega\). The main result states that for any piecewise \(C^1\) simple closed plane curve parametrized by \(\gamma(s)=(r(s)\cos{s},r(s)\sin{s})\), \(s\in[0,2\pi[\), where \(r\) is a Lipschitz continuous periodic positive function satisfying a certain angular variation condition, there exists a conical origami such that \(\gamma\) can be obtained by a plane cut of it.