The rectangular peg problem

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2021.194.2.4MaRDI QIDQ1983099zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Evan Greene, Andrew Lobb

Publication date 15 September 2021

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09193, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/33888/1/33888.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometryJordan curveaspect ratioLagrangian surfaceinscribed rectangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) History of geometry (51-03) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

Abstract: For every smooth Jordan curve $gamma$ and rectangle $R$ in the Euclidean plane, we show that there exists a rectangle similar to $R$ whose vertices lie on $gamma$. The proof relies on Shevchishin's theorem that the Klein bottle does not admit a smooth Lagrangian embedding in $mathbb{C}^2$.

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