Oriented area as a Morse function on polygon spaces

DOI10.26493/1855-3974.2286.ECEMaRDI QIDQ4993952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniil Mamaev

Publication date 11 June 2021

Published in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02707

zbMATH Keywords

configuration spacescritical pointsflexible polygonsMorse index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: We study polygon spaces arising from planar configurations of necklaces with some of the beads fixed and some of the beads sliding freely. These spaces include configuration spaces of flexible polygons and some other natural polygon spaces. We characterise critical points of the oriented area function in geometric terms and give a formula for the Morse indices. Thus we obtain a generalisation of isoperimetric theorems for polygons in the plane.

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