Unwinding spirals I

DOI10.4310/MAA.2018.V25.N3.A3zbMATH Open1428.14054arXiv1603.03145OpenAlexW2986404167WikidataQ126860306 ScholiaQ126860306MaRDI QIDQ2010769FDOQ2010769

Authors: Alexander Fish, Laurentiu Paunescu 

Publication date: 28 November 2019

Published in: Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that there is no bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism of $mathbb{R}^2$ that maps a spiral with a sub-exponential decay of winding radii to an unwinded arc. This result is sharp as shows an example of a logarithmic spiral.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03145

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zbMATH Keywords

logarithmic spiralbi-Lipschitz homeomorphismsub-exponential decayspirla

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Metric geometry (51F99)

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