Self-crossing geodesics

DOI10.1007/S00283-021-10127-0MaRDI QIDQ2154137zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Petrunin

Publication date 14 July 2022

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08546

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsconvex surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We discuss self-crossing patterns of closed geodesics on a convex surface.

Review text

The paper is part of a column about mathematics passed on informally, but are of wider interest. Here closed geodesics on strictly convex (i.e., positively curved) surfaces with a fixed number of self-intersections are presented. Fixing the number of self-intersections limits the number of possible configurations. The article explains how to use the Gauß-Bonnet Theorem and Toponogov's Theorem in order to exclude certain configuration with five simple self-intersections.

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