Closed geodesics on doubled polygons

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2019.12.1219MaRDI QIDQ2278642zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adam Y. W. Fong, Ian M. Adelstein

Publication date 5 December 2019

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09275

zbMATH Keywords

billiard pathsclosed geodesicsregular polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: In this paper we study 1/k-geodesics, those closed geodesics that minimize on any subinterval of length $L/k$, where $L$ is the length of the geodesic. We investigate the existence and behavior of these curves on doubled polygons and show that every doubled regular $n$-gon admits a $1/2n$-geodesic. For the doubled regular $p$-gons, with $p$ an odd prime, we conjecture that $k=2p$ is the minimum value for $k$ such that the space admits a $1/k$-geodesic.

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