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Selim G
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Geodesic paths on a flat sphere

Let $S$ be a $2$-dimensional sphere endowed with a flat metric with $3$ conical singularities of positive curvature. Typically, $S$ is a metric space you get when you glue two copies of the same triangle along its boundary.

I have two questions about simple (not self-intersecting, avoiding singular points), totally geodesic paths joining two singular points.

  1. Is there a finite number of such paths ?

  2. If it is the case, is there an algorithm to compute this number ?

Selim G
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