The cut locus of a Randers rotational 2-sphere of revolution

DOI10.5486/PMD.2018.8126zbMATH Open1424.53106arXiv1808.03381OpenAlexW2963068453WikidataQ125762365 ScholiaQ125762365MaRDI QIDQ4615253FDOQ4615253

Jaipong Kasemsuwan, Sorin V. Sabau, Rattanasak Hama

Publication date: 1 February 2019

Published in: Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present paper we study the structure of the cut locus of a Randers rotational 2-sphere of revolution $$. We show that in the case when the Gaussian curvature of the Randers surface is monotone along a meridian, the cut locus of a point $qinM$ is a point on a subarc of the opposite half bending meridian or of the antipodal parallel (Theorem 1.1). More generally, in the case when the Gaussian curvature is not monotone along the meridian, but the cut locus of a point $q$ on the equator is a subarc of the same equator, the cut locus of any point $widetildeqinM$ different from poles is a subarc of the antipodal parallel (Theorem 1.2). Some examples are also given at the last section and some differences with the Riemannian case are pointed out.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03381

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zbMATH Keywords

cut locusGaussian curvatureRanders metrics2-sphere of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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