On the square peg problem

DOI10.1007/S00454-025-00720-XMaRDI QIDQ6983226zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gregory R. Chambers

Publication date 15 May 2025

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00454-025-00720-X

zbMATH Keywords

inscribed square problemJordan curvesquare peg problemToeplitz conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete geometry (52C99) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Review text

The square peg problem, posed by Toeplitz in 1911, asks if any Jordan curve in the plane contains four points that define a square of positive area. Many partial solutions are known, often in cases where there are extra regularity conditions imposed on the Jordan curve in question. The general case, however, remains open.\N\NThe current paper gives a nice short exposition of some the classical approaches. The author then proves a new partial result to the conjecture for Jordan curves which are close (with respect to the maximum unsigned curvature of the Jordan curve in question) to a \(C^2\) Jordan curve, crediting previous work of Schirelman as inspiration for this approach.

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