Farthest point map on a centrally symmetric convex polyhedron

DOI10.1007/S10711-019-00445-1MaRDI QIDQ2290844zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zili Wang

Publication date 29 January 2020

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06934

zbMATH Keywords

centrally symmetricconvex polyhedronfarthest pointgeodesiclimit set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional dynamical systems (37E99) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15)

Abstract: The farthest point map sends a point in a compact metric space to the set of points farthest from it. We focus on the case when this metric space is a convex centrally symmetric polyhedron, so that we can compose the farthest point map with the antipodal map. The purpose of this work is to study the properties of this composition. We show that: 1. the map has no generalized periodic points; 2. its limit point set coincides with its generalized fixed point set; 3. each of its orbit converges; 4. its limit set is contained in a finite union of hyperbolas. We will define some of these terminologies in the article.

Review text

Let \(\Sigma\) be a compact metric space. The \textit{farthest point map} on \(\Sigma\) associates each point \(p\) of \(\Sigma\) to the set of the points of \(\Sigma\) which are at maximal distance from \(p\). In this paper, the author focuses in the case where \(\Sigma\) is a convex centrally symmetric polyhedral surface equipped with the intrinsic path metric. Denoting by \(F\) the farthest point map of \(\Sigma\), and by \(\phi\) the antipodal map of \(\Sigma\) (this is well-defined because \(\Sigma\) is symmetric), the author studies the dynamics of the map \(f = F\circ \phi\). It is proven that \(f\) has no generalized periodic points and that every orbit of \(f\) forms a convergent sequence. Some properties of limit sets (i.e., sets of limit points of orbits) are also described.

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