Farthest points on flat surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00022-018-0448-9MaRDI QIDQ1990609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joël Rouyer, Costin Vîlcu

Publication date 25 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03507

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusVoronoi diagramflat torusAlexandrov surfaceflat Klein bottle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Abstract: We consider the distance function from an arbitrary point $p$ on a flat surface, and determine the set $F_p$ of all emph{farthest points} (i.e., points at maximal distance) from $p$.

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