Farthest points on flat surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00022-018-0448-9zbMATH Open1407.53074arXiv1807.03507OpenAlexW2963875501MaRDI QIDQ1990609FDOQ1990609

Costin Vîlcu, Joël Rouyer

Publication date: 25 October 2018

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

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 $p$.

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

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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)

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