The abstract proves polygon inscriptions in curves with specific edge ratios.
problem Proving the existence of polygons inscribed in Jordan curves with prescribed edge ratios.
method Using the properties of differentiable curves and proportional side lengths.
result Existence of polygons inscribed in Jordan curves with prescribed edge ratios.
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…
The study extends inscription problems to non-Euclidean geometries.
problem Generalizing inscription problems to non-Euclidean geometries.
method Symplectic and Riemannian geometry techniques.
result Proved generalized inscription theorems for hyperbolic and spherical surfaces.
New Jordan Floer homology shows every curve inscribes every isosceles trapezoid.
problem Understanding inscriptions of isosceles trapezoids in Jordan curves.
method Constructing a new Lagrangian Floer homology chain complex.
result Establishes new cases of non-smooth Jordan curves inscribing isosceles trapezoids.
Polynomially inscribe 6 concyclic points into any smooth curve.
problem Inscribing points into smooth curves using polynomials.
method Combines Fukaya-Irie theorem and Floer homology computation.
result Supports conjecture about polynomial inscriptions.
Floer homology applied to inscribing rectangles into curves.
problem Determining if a Jordan curve can inscribe a square.
method Constructing Floer homology from inscribed rectangles and using spectral invariants.
result A Jordan curve inscribes a square if its enclosed area exceeds half a circle's area.
Continuous curves inscribe isosceles trapezoids in complex plane.
problem Proving periodic curves inscribe isosceles trapezoids.
method Lagrangian intersection problem and convergence argument.
result Continuous curves inscribe trapezoids with any similarity type.
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.
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. 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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
We study polygon spaces arising from planar configurations of necklaces with some of the beads fixed and some of the beads sliding freely. These spaces include configuration spaces of flexible polygons and some other natural polygon spaces. We characterise critical points of the oriented area function in geometric term…
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…
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.
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. 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 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.
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…
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.
For a polygon in Euclidean space we consider a transformation T which is obtained by applying the midpoints polygon construction twice and using an index shift. For a closed polygon this is a curve shortening process. A polygon is called (affine) soliton of the transformation T if its image under T is an affine image o…
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.
We develop the basic topological properties of compact polygons, i.e. of compact topological Tits buildings of rank two. It is proved that the Coxeter diagram of such a building is always crystallographic, that is, compact connected n-gons exist only for n=3,4,6. We classify compact polygons which admit a transitive gr…
Polygon p-widths are found via billiard trajectories.
problem Finding p-widths of polygons. method Proved via billiard trajectories and computed specific cases.
result Polygon p-widths are achieved by billiard trajectories. The paper finds new inequalities for convex polygons.
problem Finding precise inequalities for convex polygons.
method Analytic isoperimetric inequalities based on Schur convex functions, followed by Bonnesen-style and inverse Bonnesen-style inequalities.
result Sharp discrete isoperimetric inequalities for planar convex polygons.
We describe the configuration space S of polygons with prescribed edge slopes, and study the perimeter P as a Morse function on S. We characterize critical points of P (these are \textit{tangential} polygons) and compute their Morse indices. This setup is motivated by a num…
Study three discrete envelope types of polygon bisection lines.
problem Understanding different envelope types of polygon bisection lines.
method Examined three distinct notions of discrete envelopes.
result Connected three different notions of discrete envelopes.