Study examines Hilbert area of inscribed polygons in projective geometry.
problem Understanding Hilbert area of inscribed polygons in projective geometry.
method Examined correspondence between Fock-Goncharov and Cartesian coordinates, analyzed degeneration and Hilbert area of inscribed quadrilaterals, developed microlocal condition.
result Sequence of strictly convex domains with bounded Hilbert area and divergent Goldman parameters.
Study of polygon degeneration to segments in complex space.
problem Understanding the space of polygons degenerated to segments.
method Proved L(n) is a smooth submanifold, described its topology, computed geodesics, and quotiented the space. result Found that L(n) and M(n) contain straight lines forming a basis of directions in their tangent spaces. New formula for spherical polygon area via prequantization.
problem Traditional area formula for spherical polygons requires measuring angles.
method Uses prequantization to create a new formula that doesn't require angle measurement.
result New formula applicable to a wider range of degenerate curves and polygons.
Study on Poncelet polygons' centers and circumcenters in various geometries.
problem Understanding Poncelet polygons' geometric centers in different geometries.
method Analyzing the Circumcenter of Mass and Center of Mass of Poncelet polygons, proving Dan Reznik's invariants, and exploring spherical geometry.
result Proof of Dan Reznik's invariants for billiard trajectories and insights into Poncelet polygons' centers in spherical geometry.
The paper calculates critical configurations and Morse indices for polygons on circles or ellipses.
problem Finding critical configurations and their properties for polygons on circles or ellipses.
method Computing Morse indices and gradient vector fields for isolated critical points, relating to eigenvalue questions.
result Computed Morse indices and relationships to eigenvalue questions for polygons on circles or ellipses.
In this paper, we determine the bifurcation set of a real polynomial function of two variables for non-degenerate case in the sense of Newton polygons by using a toric compactification. We also count the number of singular phenomena at infinity, called "cleaving" and "vanishing" in the same setting. Finally, we give an…
Dancing polygons and rolling balls linked via a special geometric distribution.
problem Understanding the geometric and mechanical relationship between dancing polygons and rolling balls.
method Mapping dancing polygons to trajectories of a rolling ball on a 3D surface, both described by a specific geometric distribution.
result Non-degenerate dancing pairs of polygons exist for all n≥6 and correspond to rolling ball trajectories. The paper studies knot densities under various constraints and degenerations.
problem Understanding knot densities under different constraints and their degenerations.
method Introduces and analyzes unconstrained and ropelength-windowed p-densities of knot types. result The degenerations in the unconstrained theory and the introduction of ropelength-windowed densities.
Moduli spaces of planar polygonal linkages admit a cell structure which can be realized as a surgery on the permutohedron. We present a 3D visualization of the result of the surgery for all types of non-degenerate pentagonal linkages.
We study the Hamiltonian vector field v=(−∂f/∂w,∂f/∂z) on C2, where f=f(z,w) is a polynomial in two complex variables, which is non-degenerate with respect to its Newton's polygon. We introduce coordinates in four-dimensional neighbourhoods of the "points at infinity", in …
We consider a continuous family (fs), s∈[0,1] of complex polynomials in two variables with isolated singularities, that are Newton non-degenerate. We suppose that the Euler characteristic of a generic fiber is constant (or equivalently the sum of the affine Milnor number and the Milnor number at infinity $μ(s)+λ…
Maximizing energy on flexible curves yields regular or convex polygons.
problem Finding the shape of a flexible curve that maximizes a given energy function.
method Analyzing the energy function and properties of flexible curves.
result Maximizers are regular or convex n-gons, with each edge of length 1.
New methods classify convex lattice polygons for affine dimers.
problem Not all convex lattice polygons are characteristic polygons of affine dimers.
method General constructions and algorithm for finding affine dimers with prescribed polygons.
result All lattice triangles, generalised parallelograms, and polygons of genus at most two admit an affine dimer.
The pentagram map's limit point is related to infinitesimal perturbations of polygons.
problem Understanding the limit point of the pentagram map and its relation to polygon perturbations.
method Interpreting Glick's operator as the infinitesimal monodromy of a polygon.
result Glick's operator measures the extent to which a perturbed polygon does not close up.
General area-preserving motion of polygonal curves is formulated as a system of ODEs. Solution polygonal curves belong to a prescribed polygonal class, which is similar to the admissible class used in the crystalline curvature flow. The ODEs are discretized implicitly in time keeping a given constant area speed while s…
Study finds finitely many non-congruent polygonal domains with same Steklov spectrum.
problem Inverse Steklov problem on convex polygons.
method Analysis of Steklov eigenvalues and isoperimetric bounds.
result For almost all convex polygonal domains, there exist at most finitely many non-congruent domains with the same Steklov spectrum.
Study of polygon spaces, characterizing critical points of area function.
problem Characterizing critical points of area function in polygon spaces.
method Geometric characterization of critical points and calculation of Morse indices.
result Generalization of isoperimetric theorems for polygons in the plane.
New property: polygons have a fixed dimension regardless of ambient space dimensions.
problem Understanding the dimension of polygon moduli spaces.
method Generalizing the square bending example to polygons of arbitrary edge lengths.
result There are only finitely many moduli spaces of polygons with given edge lengths, even as ambient dimension increases.
The paper classifies vertices in planar polygons formed by convex domains.
problem Classifying vertices in planar polygons formed by convex domains.
method Analyzing polygons formed by homothets and translates of a convex domain.
result The number of singular boundary points in a C-polygon is between n and 2(n−1)+m for a strictly convex domain with m singular boundary points. Simple rectilinear polygons (i.e. rectilinear polygons without holes or cutpoints) can be regarded as finite rectangular cell complexes coordinatized by two finite dendrons. The intrinsic l1-metric is thus inherited from the product of the two finite dendrons via an isometric embedding. The rectangular cell complexe…
The pentagram map takes a planar polygon P to a polygon P′ whose vertices are the intersection points of consecutive shortest diagonals of P. This map is known to interact nicely with Poncelet polygons, i.e. polygons which are simultaneously inscribed in a conic and circumscribed about a conic. A theorem of R. Sc…
In this paper, we discuss centroaffine geometry of polygons in 3-space. For a polygon X that is locally convex with respect to an origin together with a transversal vector field U, we define the centroaffine dual pair (Y,V) similarly to [6]. We prove that vertices of (X,U) correspond to flattening points for …
We establish a fundamental connection between smooth and polygonal knot energies, showing that the Minimum Distance Energy for polygons inscribed in a smooth knot converges to the Moebius Energy of the smooth knot as the polygons converge to the smooth knot. However, the polygons must converge in a ``nice'' way, and th…
Optimal Reeb graphs identified for polygon decomposition.
problem Investigating the topological structure of planar polygon decomposition.
method Using oriented Reeb graphs with a marked vertex for height functions.
result Described all possible optimal Reeb graphs for specific polygon configurations.
Discrete analogues of ellipsoids with preserved circular cross sections.
problem Constructing discrete analogues of ellipsoids with preserved geometric properties.
method A novel discretization procedure to create discrete analogues of ellipsoids composed of planar quadrilaterals.
result Discrete analogues of ellipsoids have preserved circular cross sections and can be deformed.
The study proves analogues of the discrete isoperimetric inequality in hyperbolic geometry.
problem Finding the minimum perimeter for polygons with a fixed area in hyperbolic geometry.
method Proving analogues of the discrete isoperimetric inequality for cyclic and tangential polygons in hyperbolic geometry, considering both single and multiple polygons.
result Established two versions of the isoperimetric inequality for multiple polygons in hyperbolic geometry with certain area or perimeter restrictions.
The map S transforms polygon sides, and almost no convex polygons remain convex.
problem Investigating whether convex polygons remain convex under the map S.
method Analyzing the dynamics of the map S and proving properties of the set of polygons that remain convex.
result The set of polygons that remain convex under iterations of S has measure zero and is an algebraic subvariety of codimension two.
In this article we investigate a family of nonlinear evolutions of polygons in the plane called the β-polygon flow and obtain some results analogous to results for the smooth curve shortening flow: (1) any planar polygon shrinks to a point and (2) a regular polygon with five or more vertices is asymptotically stable …
The study proves a discrete Blaschke theorem for convex polygons in 2-dimensional space forms.
problem Investigating curvature and circumradius constraints for convex polygons in 2-space forms.
method Defining curvature at each vertex and proving a Blaschke-type theorem.
result The circumradius of a convex polygon satisfies a specific inequality related to its vertex curvatures.
Consider a convex polygon P in the plane, and denote by U a homothetical copy of the vector sum of P and (-P). Then the polygon U, as unit ball, induces a norm such that, with respect to this norm, P has constant Minkowskian width. We define notions like Minkowskian curvature, evolutes and involutes for polygons of con…
Investigates dual foliations of polygon spaces based on area and perimeter.
problem Understanding dual foliations of polygon spaces guided by area and perimeter.
method Investigated topology of leaves, determined homology groups, and extended isoperimetric duality.
result Homology groups and homotopy types of polygon spaces are determined.
Maximal distortion between geodesic and Euclidean diameters in polygonal domains is studied.
problem Maximal ratio of geodesic to Euclidean diameters in polygonal domains with holes.
method Analyzes convex polygons with holes, using geometric triangulations as a comparison.
result The supremum of the ratio is between Ω(h1/3) and O(h1/2) for convex polygons. Characterizes polygonal surfaces in pseudo-hyperbolic spaces.
problem Understanding polygonal surfaces in pseudo-hyperbolic spaces.
method Characterizes polygonal surfaces by total curvature finiteness and asymptotic flatness, using comparison of ideal boundaries.
result Polygonal surfaces have parabolic type and polynomial quartic differential.
Solitons are special polygon midpoints under affine transformations.
problem Characterizing polygons whose midpoints under affine transformations form a new polygon.
method Analyzing midpoints polygons and their relationship to affine transformations and differential equations.
result A large class of polygons are on an orbit of a one-parameter subgroup of the affine group, and these curves are solutions to a specific differential equation.
Short proof for ideal polygons with near optimal orthogeodesic decomposition.
problem Decomposing ideal polygons into orthogeodesics.
method Short proof with orthogeodesic decomposition of length at most 2log(n). result Optimal orthogeodesic decomposition of ideal polygons with length 2log(n). We study polygonal analogues of several moving boundary problems and their time discretization which preserves the constant area speed property. We establish various polygonal analogues of geometric formulas for moving boundaries and make use of the geometric formulas for our numerical scheme and its analysis of genera…
In this paper, we study the symplectic volume of the moduli space of polygons by using Witten's formula. We propose to use this volume as a measure for the flexibility of a polygon with fixed side-lengths. The main result of our is that among all the Spherical and Euclidean polygons with fixed perimeter the regular one…
The study connects polygon areas and projective structures in 3D space.
problem Relating polygon areas and projective structures in 3D space.
method Investigates positive tuples of complete flags in R^3 and their associated polygons in RP^2.
result Establishes a relationship between Holmes-Thompson area and projective structures.
Fast algorithm samples confined polygons efficiently.
problem Sampling confined random equilateral closed polygons efficiently.
method Uses symplectic geometry to sample moment polytope, leading to a linear-time algorithm.
result Explicit formulas for expected distances and total curvature of vertices to the origin.
Researchers prove the arc complexes of decorated hyperbolic polygons are balls.
problem Understanding the structure of decorated hyperbolic polygons.
method Combinatorial approach using pseudo-manifolds and shellability.
result Arc complexes of decorated hyperbolic polygons are closed piecewise linear balls.
Classifies tilings of hyperbolic plane by regular polygons.
problem Decidability of tiling patterns in hyperbolic plane.
method Finite set of local and inductive combinatorial constraints.
result First known weakly aperiodic protosets of regular polygons in hyperbolic plane.
We describe the first-order variations of the angles of Euclidean, spherical or hyperbolic polygons under infinitesimal deformations such that the lengths of the edges do not change. Using this description, we introduce a vector-valued quadratic invariant b on the space of those isometric deformations which, for conv…
We describe all families of star-shaped n-polygons in the Euclidean plane with prescribed perimeter and area ; they are leaves of a foliation F on the space of star-shaped n-polygons. By the way, we study some geometric properties of convex polygons, for instance their inscriptibility in a circle and their regularity i…
New method finds lattice polygons that can be dissected into triangles with integer areas.
problem Finding lattice polygons that can be dissected into triangles with integer areas.
method A new version of Sperner's Lemma.
result Simple and complete description of lattice polygons that can be dissected into triangles with integer areas.
In this paper we consider planar polygons with parallel opposite sides. This type of polygons can be regarded as discretizations of closed convex planar curves by taking tangent lines at samples with pairwise parallel tangents. For this class of polygons, we define discrete versions of the area evolute, central symmetr…
We prove that, among all convex hyperbolic polygons with given angles, the perimeter is minimized by the unique polygon with an inscribed circle. The proof relies on work of J.-M.\ Schlenker.
Solves relative isoperimetric problem on polygonal domains, focusing on corners.
problem Relative isoperimetric problem on polygonal domains in R2. method Developed techniques for polygonal domains, with special attention to corners.
result Solved the relative isoperimetric problem for a square with a square corner removed.
Paper finds optimal shapes for minimizing average lengths of billiard trajectories in specific polygons.
problem Finding optimal shapes to minimize the average length of billiard trajectories.
method Used techniques from Teichmüller theory.
result Optimal shapes minimize average lengths of billiard trajectories in specific polygons.