Inscribed rectangle coincidences
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Richard Evan Schwartz
Abstract
We prove an integral formula for continuous paths of rectangles inscribed in a piecewise smooth loop. We use this integral formula to prove the inequality M(γ) ≥ Δ(γ)/2 – 1, where M(γ) denotes the total multiplicity of rectangle coincidences, i.e. pairs, triples, etc. of isometric rectangles inscribed in γ, and Δ(γ) denotes the number of stable diameters of γ, i.e. critical points of the distance function on γ.
Communicated by: T. Grundhöfer
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Funding: The author was supported by N.S.F. Research Grant DMS-1204471.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Arseniy Akopyan and Peter Doyle for conversations related to this paper. I would like to thank the N.S.F. for their support.
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