Profiles of inflated surfaces

DOI10.1142/S140292511000057XMaRDI QIDQ3161575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Pak, Jean-Marc Schlenker

Publication date 15 October 2010

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5057

zbMATH Keywords

convex polyhedrongeodesic distanceinflated surfaceMylar balloonshort embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Abstract: We study the shape of inflated surfaces introduced in cite{B1} and cite{P1}. More precisely, we analyze profiles of surfaces obtained by inflating a convex polyhedron, or more generally an almost everywhere flat surface, with a symmetry plane. We show that such profiles are in a one-parameter family of curves which we describe explicitly as the solutions of a certain differential equation.

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