Timeline for A walk on a compact 2D surface embedded in 3-space that never returns home
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| Jun 12, 2010 at 18:04 | answer | added | coudy | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:07 | answer | added | David Eppstein | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 17:33 | comment | added | HJRW | Now I'm just confused about the quantifiers. Is the question "does every surface in R^3 have a closed geodesic?" or "does every surface in R^3 have an infinite geodesic?", or even "does every surface in R^3 have an infinite non-self-intersecting geodesic?"? | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 15:57 | answer | added | TerronaBell | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 12:34 | history | edited | Tyler Lawson |
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| Nov 6, 2009 at 8:32 | answer | added | Aaron Mazel-Gee | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 8:28 | history | edited | Mensen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Cleaned up, clarified title
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| Nov 6, 2009 at 8:12 | history | edited | Mensen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Made clarifications/proper terminology changes w/ ass. from Henry Wilton
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| Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 | comment | added | Mensen | Henry - yes, and yes. This was poorly written and thought out on my end. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 7:56 | vote | accept | Mensen | ||
| Nov 6, 2009 at 5:45 | answer | added | S. Carnahan♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 5:40 | comment | added | HJRW | I presume you want your surface to be compact? Also, when you say "the ant will walk along the curvature of the surface", do you mean that it follows a local geodesic? | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 5:01 | comment | added | Mensen | I very strongly suspect the answer is 'no' for arbitrary positioning or arbitrary orientation. I should have thought a bit more before asking this... | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 4:57 | history | edited | Mensen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 6, 2009 at 4:52 | history | asked | Mensen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |