Level triangles on a surface with boundary

DOI10.1007/BF00181226MaRDI QIDQ1060427zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. H. Kronheimer, P. B. Kronheimer

Publication date 1985

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00181226

zbMATH Keywords

compact surfacediametereuclidean trianglelevel set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R35)

Review text

The following problem is studied: given a compact surface \(M\subseteq E^ 3\) (not necessarily differentiable) and a continuous map \(f: M\to [0,\infty)\) vanishing on \(\partial M\) (if there is a nonempty boundary) and a euclidean triangle \(\Delta\), does there exist a level set \(f^{- 1}(a)\) which contains the vertices of a triangle \(\Delta_ f\) congruent to \(\Delta\) ? In general the answer will be no, e.g. if \(\Delta\) is too large. In the present paper it is shown that the answer is yes under the assumptions that the surface has nonempty boundary ad is \(C^ 1\)- embedded in \(E^ 3\) and furthermore that the diameter of \(\Delta\) is bounded by a certain constant \(\sigma >0\) which depends on M. In addition, if \(\chi\) (M)\(\neq 0\) then one may prescribe the direction of \(\Delta_ f\) in a certain sense. By counterexamples it is shown that none of the assumptions can be omitted.

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