Shortest paths in arbitrary plane domains

DOI10.4153/S0008414X20000784MaRDI QIDQ5075982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. C. Hoehn, Lex Oversteegen, E. D. Tymchatyn

Publication date 12 May 2022

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06737

zbMATH Keywords

homotopylengthpathplane domainshortestanalytic covering map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Topological spaces of dimension (leq 1); curves, dendrites (54F50)

Abstract: Let $Omega$ be a connected open set in the plane and $gamma:[0,1]ooverlineOmega$ a path such that $gamma((0,1))subsetOmega$. We show that the path $gamma$ can be ``pulled tight to a unique shortest path which is homotopic to $gamma$, via a homotopy $h$ with endpoints fixed whose intermediate paths $h_t$, for $tin[0,1)$, satisfy $h_t((0,1))subsetOmega$. We prove this result even in the case when there is no path of finite Euclidean length homotopic to $gamma$ under such a homotopy. For this purpose, we offer three other natural, equivalent notions of a ``shortest path. This work generalizes previous results for simply connected domains with simple closed curve boundaries.

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