Natural parameterizations of closed projective plane curves

DOI10.1007/S00022-020-00530-XMaRDI QIDQ2309615zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roland Hildebrand

Publication date 1 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06675

zbMATH Keywords

projective plane curveglobal invariantForsyth-Laguerre parametrization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: A natural parametrization of smooth projective plane curves which tolerates the presence of sextactic points is the Forsyth-Laguerre parametrization. On a closed projective plane curve, which necessarily contains sextactic points, this parametrization is, however, in general not periodic. We show that by the introduction of an additional scalar parameter $alphaleqfrac12$ one can define a projectively invariant $2pi$-periodic global parametrization on every simple closed convex sufficiently smooth projective plane curve without inflection points. For non-quadratic curves this parametrization, which we call balanced, is unique up to a shift of the parameter. The curve is an ellipse if and only if $alpha=frac12$, and the value of $alpha$ is a global projective invariant of the curve. The parametrization is equivariant with respect to duality.

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