Polygonal bicycle paths and the Darboux transformation

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2016.9.57MaRDI QIDQ903136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian Alevy, E. Tsukerman

Publication date 5 January 2016

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5757

zbMATH Keywords

bicycle polygonsfloating bodies in equilibriumtire track problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: A Bicycle $(n,k)$-gon is an equilateral $n$-gon whose $k$ diagonals are of equal length. In this paper we consider periodic bicycle $(n,k)$-paths, which are a natural variation in which the polygon is replaced with a periodic polygonal path.

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