Extremal area of polygons, sliding along a circle

DOI10.14492/HOKMJ/2020-312MaRDI QIDQ2134180zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Siersma

Publication date 6 May 2022

Published in Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10882

zbMATH Keywords

areacritical pointellipseKhimshiashvili formulaMorse indexpolygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polytopes and polyhedra (52B99) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: We determine all critical configurations for the Area function on polygons with vertices on a circle or an ellipse. For isolated critical points we compute their Morse index, resp index of the gradient vector field. We relate the computation at an isolated degenerate point to an eigenvalue question about combinations. In the even dimensional case non-isolated singularities occur as `zigzag trains'.

Review text

In the paper under review polygons having \(n\) vertices on a circle or an ellipse are considered, and all critical configurations for their (signed) area function are determined. In the main result, the author gives geometric criteria for the critical points, and determines the Hesse matrix at those points. Most of the critical points turn out to be of Morse type, although several of them have zigzag behavior. For isolated critical points, the Morse index is computed.

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