Oriented area is a perfect Morse function

DOI10.1090/SPMJ/1503MaRDI QIDQ4636965zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Panina

Publication date 17 April 2018

Published in St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04265

zbMATH Keywords

flexible polygonMorse indexpolygonal linkage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

Abstract: We show that an appropriate generalization of the oriented area function is a perfect Morse function on the space of three-dimensional configurations of an equilateral polygonal linkage with odd number of edges. Therefore cyclic equilateral polygons (which appear as Morse points) are interpreted as independent generators of the homology groups of the (decorated) configuration space.

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