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

aspect ratioinscribed rectanglesJordan curveLagrangian surfacesymplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $mathbb{C}^2$.

Review text

Using a theorem of \textit{V. Shevchishin} [Izv. Math. 73, No. 4, 797--859 (2009); translation from Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Mat. 73, No. 4, 153--224 (2009; Zbl 1196.57021)] and \textit{S. Yu. Nemirovski} [Izv. Math. 66, No. 1, 151--164 (2002); translation from Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Mat. 66, No. 1, 153--166 (2002; Zbl 1041.53049)] -- that the Klein bottle does not admit a smooth Lagrangian embedding in \({\mathbb C}^2\) --, a proposition proved in this paper regarding a Lagrangian smoothing, involving a \(4\)-manifold with a symplectic form, and the equivariant Darboux-Weinstein theorem, the authors prove the long-standing conjecture that for every smooth Jordan curve \(\gamma\) and rectangle \(R\) in the Euclidean plane, there exists a rectangle similar to \(R\) whose vertices lie on \(\gamma\). The paper ends with an in-depth history of the problem, going back to Toeplitz in 1911.

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