On the existence of closed \(C^{1, 1}\) curves of constant curvature (Q6073862)

This paper establishes a variant of a conjecture of \textit{V. I. Arnold} [Arnold's problems. Translated and revised edition of the 2000 Russian original. Berlin: Springer; Moscow: PHASIS (2004; Zbl 1051.00002)], namely for every positive constant \(c<\infty\) the existence of an immersed \(C^{1,1}\)-curve on any Riemannian surface, which is smooth with curvature equal to \(\pm c\) except possibly at one single point \(p\). The authors provide examples to illustrate that the regularity of the resulting curve cannot be enhanced in general.