Insecurity for compact surfaces of positive genus

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9432-8zbMATH Open1202.53044arXiv0908.1138OpenAlexW3102186910MaRDI QIDQ976836FDOQ976836

Authors: Victor Bangert, Eugene Gutkin 

Publication date: 16 June 2010

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A pair of points in a riemannian manifold $M$ is secure if the geodesics between the points can be blocked by a finite number of point obstacles; otherwise the pair of points is insecure. A manifold is secure if all pairs of points in $M$ are secure. A manifold is insecure if there exists an insecure point pair, and totally insecure if all point pairs are insecure. Compact, flat manifolds are secure. A standing conjecture says that these are the only secure, compact riemannian manifolds. We prove this for surfaces of genus greater than zero. We also prove that a closed surface of genus greater than one with any riemannian metric and a closed surface of genus one with generic metric are totally insecure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1138

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zbMATH Keywords

blocking setclosed geodesicinsecurityminimal geodesicflat toruscompact Riemannian surfacefree homotopy classsurface of genus greater than one

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of twist maps (37E40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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