A synthetic characterization of the hemisphere

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09196-4zbMATH Open1136.53037arXivmath/0406283OpenAlexW2030975807MaRDI QIDQ5438482FDOQ5438482

Authors: Christopher B. Croke 

Publication date: 23 January 2008

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

Abstract: We show that round hemispheres are the only compact 2 dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with or without boundary) such that almost every pair of complete geodesics intersect once and only once. We prove this by establishing a sharp isoperimetric inequality for surfaces with boundary such that every pair of geodesics have at most one interior intersection point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406283

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicisoperimetric inequalityhemisphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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• Some isoperimetric inequalities and eigenvalue estimates
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• Rigidity of Riemannian embeddings of discrete metric spaces
• On minimizers in the liquid drop model
• Riemannian rigidity of the parallel postulate in total curvature
• Characterizing round spheres using half-geodesics
• Symmetry and isoperimetry for Riemannian surfaces
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