The structure of continuous rigid functions of two variables

Publication date 2 September 2010

Abstract: A function

f : R R^{n} o R R

is called emph{vertically rigid} if

g r a p h (c f)

is isometric to

g r a p h (f)

for all

c e q 0

. We settled Jankovi'c's conjecture in a separate paper by showing that a continuous function

f : R R o R R

is vertically rigid if and only if it is of the form

a + b x

or

a + b e^{k x}

(

a, b, k i n R R

). Now we prove that a continuous function

f : R R^{2} o R R

is vertically rigid if and only if after a suitable rotation around the z-axis

f (x, y)

is of the form

a + b x + d y

,

a + s (y) e^{k x}

or

a + b e^{k x} + d y

(

a, b, d, k i n R R

,

k e q 0

,

s : R R o R R

continuous). The problem remains open in higher dimensions.

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