Boundary torsion and convex caps of locally convex surfaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1488503004zbMATH Open1381.53017arXiv1501.07626OpenAlexW2962738916WikidataQ115166332 ScholiaQ115166332MaRDI QIDQ524875FDOQ524875

Authors: Mohammad Ghomi 

Publication date: 26 April 2017

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the torsion of any closed space curve which bounds a simply connected locally convex surface vanishes at least 4 times. This answers a question of Rosenberg related to a problem of Yau on characterizing the boundary of positively curved disks in Euclidean space. Furthermore, our result generalizes the 4 vertex theorem of Sedykh for convex space curves, and thus constitutes a far reaching extension of the classical 4 vertex theorem. The proof involves studying the arrangement of convex caps in a locally convex surface, and yields a Bose type formula for these objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07626

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zbMATH Keywords

vertexBose's formulaclosed space curvesconvex capstopological disks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

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