The Shadows of a Cycle Cannot All Be Paths

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Authors Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Michael Gene Dobbins, Heuna Kim, G. Viglietta

Publication date 8 July 2015

Abstract: A "shadow" of a subset $S$ of Euclidean space is an orthogonal projection of $S$ into one of the coordinate hyperplanes. In this paper we show that it is not possible for all three shadows of a cycle (i.e., a simple closed curve) in $mathbb{R}^3$ to be paths (i.e., simple open curves). We also show two contrasting results: the three shadows of a path in $mathbb{R}^3$ can all be cycles (although not all convex) and, for every $dgeq1$, there exists a $d$-sphere embedded in $mathbb{R}^{d+2}$ whose $d+2$ shadows have no holes (i.e., they deformation-retract onto a point).

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