Closed planar curves without inflections

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11319-XMaRDI QIDQ4908281zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shuntaro Ohno, Tetsuya Ozawa, Masaaki Umehara

Publication date 5 March 2013

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3343

zbMATH Keywords

topological invariantplane curveinflection pointdouble tangent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We define a computable topological invariant $mu(gamma)$ for generic closed planar regular curves $gamma$, which gives an effective lower bound for the number of inflection points on a given generic closed planar curve. Using it, we classify the topological types of locally convex curves (i.e. closed planar regular curves without inflections) whose numbers of crossings are less than or equal to five. Moreover, we discuss the relationship between the number of double tangents and the invariant $mu(gamma)$ on a given $gamma$.

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