On the topology of the spaces of curvature constrained plane curves

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2017-0015zbMATH Open1386.53003arXiv1404.4378OpenAlexW2963887365MaRDI QIDQ1707397FDOQ1707397

Authors: José L. Ayala 

Publication date: 29 March 2018

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that plane curves with the same endpoints are homotopic. An analogous claim for plane curves with the same endpoints and bounded curvature still remains open. In this work we find necessary and sufficient conditions for two plane curves with bounded curvature to be deformed, one to another, by a continuous one-parameter family of curves also having bounded curvature. We conclude that the space of these curves has either one or two connected components, depending on the distance between the endpoints. The classification theorem here presented answers a question raised in 1961 by L. E. Dubins.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4378

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zbMATH Keywords

bounded curvaturehomotopy classesregular homotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20)

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