Cyclic quadrilaterals and smooth Jordan curves

DOI10.1007/S00222-023-01212-6MaRDI QIDQ6091097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Evan Greene, Andrew Lobb

Publication date 23 November 2023

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05216

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic quadrilateralLagrangian torusminimum Maslov numbersmooth Jordan curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: For every smooth Jordan curve $gamma$ and cyclic quadrilateral $Q$ in the Euclidean plane, we show that there exists an orientation-preserving similarity taking the vertices of $Q$ to $gamma$. The proof relies on the theorem of Polterovich and Viterbo that an embedded Lagrangian torus in $mathbb{C}^2$ has minimum Maslov number 2.

Review text

After having solved the long-standing rectangular peg problem in [\textit{J. E. Greene} and \textit{A. Lobb}, Ann. Math. (2) 194, No. 2, 509--517 (2021; Zbl 1472.51010)], the authors prove in this paper a like-minded conjecture stated in [\textit{B. Matschke}, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 61, No. 4, 346--352 (2014; Zbl 1338.51017)], namely that ``Every cyclic quadrilateral inscribes in every smooth Jordan curve in the Euclidean plane. One says that quadrilateral \(Q\) inscribes in a smooth Jordan curve \(\gamma\) in the Euclidean plane if there exists an orientation-preserving similarity of the plane taking the vertices of \(Q\) to \(\gamma\). Given that \(\gamma\) could be a circle, the cyclic quadrilaterals represent the largest class of quadrilaterals to which the rectangular peg problem could possibly be generalized. Use is made of Lagrangian tori and of a theorem discovered independently in [\textit{C. Viterbo}, Invent. Math. 100, No. 2, 301--320 (1990; Zbl 0727.58015); \textit{L. V. Polterovich}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 325, No. 1, 241--248 (1991; Zbl 0719.53016)], which states that an embedded Lagrangian torus in \({\mathbb C}^2\) has minimum Maslov number 2.

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• Quadratic-cycloidal curves
• Rectangles, curves, and Klein bottles
• Polygons inscribed in Jordan curves with prescribed edge ratios
• Polynomial inscriptions

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