On nearly optimal paper Moebius bands
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Richard Evan Schwartz
Abstract
Let ε < 1/324 and let Ω be a smooth embedded paper Moebius band of aspect ratio less than
Funding statement: This research is supported by a Simons Sabbatical Fellowship, a grant from the National Science Foundation (N.S.F. Grant DMS-2102802), and a Mercator Fellowship. I’d like to thank all these organizations.
Acknowledgements
In [6] I thanked many people for their help and insights into paper Moebius bands. I thank all these people again.
Communicated by: R. Löwen
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Polyhedral combinatorics of bisectors
- Explicit construction of decomposable Jacobians
- Some rigidity results on q-solitons
- Quasimorphisms on nonorientable surface diffeomorphism groups
- On nearly optimal paper Moebius bands
- Desargues’ Theorem in Laguerre Planes
- Simple obstructions and cone reduction
- The Bogomolov–Gieseker–Koseki inequality on surfaces with canonical singularities in arbitrary characteristic
- The simultaneous lattice packing-covering constant of octahedra
- An Abel–Jacobi theorem for metrized complexes of Riemann surfaces
- Exploring the interplay of semistable vector bundles and their restrictions on reducible curves
- Another proof of Segre’s theorem about ovals
