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Planar arc on a topologically embedded sphere or disk in $\mathbb{R}^3$

An arc is a set homeomorphic to the unit interval $[0,1]$; an arc in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is planar if it is contained in some plane. The following questions are motivated by Anton Petrunin's Disc bounded ...
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Behaviour of geodesics on surfaces as one of the two endpoints moves slightly

Let $u$ and $v$ be two points on a surface (I guess, a Riemann surface) $\Sigma$ such that there is a unique geodesic between $u$ and $v$ on $\Sigma$. Now let $l$ be an arbitrary line that passes ...
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