A canonical parameterization of paths in \mathbb{R}^n

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

Publication date 1 February 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6070, https://www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/restricted/pdf46(2)/10hoehn_oversteegen.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

\textsf{len}canonical parametrizationcompactcontinuousequicontinuousEuclideanlocally connected

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Extension of maps (54C20) Continua and generalizations (54F15) Topological spaces of dimension (leq 1); curves, dendrites (54F50)

Abstract: For sufficiently tame paths in $mathbb{R}^n$, Euclidean length provides a canonical parametrization of a path by length. In this paper we provide such a parametrization for all continuous paths. This parametrization is based on an alternative notion of path length, which we call $mathsflen$. Like Euclidean path length, $mathsflen$ is invariant under isometries of $mathbb{R}^n$, is monotone with respect to sub-paths, and for any two points in $mathbb{R}^n$ the straight line segment between them has minimal $mathsflen$ length. Unlike Euclidean path length, the $mathsflen$ length of any path is defined (i.e., finite) and $mathsflen$ is continuous relative to the uniform distance between paths. We use this notion to obtain characterizations of those families of paths which can be reparameterized to be equicontinuous or compact. Finally, we use this parametrization to obtain a canonical homeomorphism between certain families of arcs.

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