On critical nets in R^k

DOI10.1007/S10711-020-00556-0zbMATH Open1467.53049arXiv1910.09002OpenAlexW2981186818MaRDI QIDQ2025656FDOQ2025656

Authors: Yashar Memarian, A. Gournay 

Publication date: 14 May 2021

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Critical nets in $mathbb{R}^k$ (sometimes called geodesic nets) are embedded graph with the property that their embedding is a critical point of the total (edge) length functional and under the constraint that certain 1-valent vertices (leaves) have a fixed position. In contrast to what happens on generic manifolds, we show that, if n is the number of 1-valent vertices, the total length of the edges not incident with a 1-valent vertex is bounded by rn (where r is the outer radius), the degree of any vertex is bounded by n and that the number of edges (and hence the number of vertices) is bounded by nl where l is related to the combinatorial diameter of the graph.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09002

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zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric inequalitiesLaplacianminimal immersionsgeodesic nets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in graphs (05C21) Random walks on graphs (05C81) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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