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In a recent paper, Centers of disks in Riemannian manifolds, Igor Belegradek and I study whether it is possible to extend to nonconvex objects the notion of center of mass or other classical centers a …

The conjecture attributed to Hadamard, if one regards that as being concerned with the existence of a complete embedded negatively curved surface in a ball, is still open. I have read the correspondin …

I suppose that we have a fixed contour $\Gamma$ which is a graph over $\partial D$, and you want to show that the minimal graph spanned by $\Gamma$ is area minimizing. First, by the maximum principle …

In 1926 Kneser showed that homeomorphisms of $\mathbf{S}^2$ admit a retraction into the orthogonal group $O(3)$. Smale extended this result to Diffeomorphisms of $\mathbf{S}^2$ in 1958; however, in th …

Mark Levi's book The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems is full of concrete examples of applying physical intuition in geometry, including even a proof of Gauss Bonnet …

Let $P$ be a convex polytope in Euclidean space $\mathbf{R}^3$ and $\Gamma$ be a closed curve which passes through all vertices of $P$. How small can the length $L$ of $\Gamma$ be? More specifically, …

Suppose that we have a convex cap, i.e., a convex surface in $R^3$ homeomorphic to a disk whose boundary lies in a plane. Reflect the cap through the plane of its boundary and glue it back to the orig …

There is a natural length-preserving operation which transforms any rectifiable space curve $\gamma\colon [a,b]\to R^n$ into a planar curve $\tilde\gamma \colon [a,b]\to R^2$. This operation, which ha …

The answer to Question 1 is yes, which is precisely Lemma 3.6 in the paper: Boundary torsion and convex caps of locally convex surfaces, J. Differential Geom., 105 (2017), 427-486. Although the lem …

As Anton's answer suggests, it is not possible to isometrically flex the edge graph while keeping all the coplanar edges in the same plane. This follows quickly from Cauchy's proof of his rigidity the …

The baseball stitches curve suggested by Gjergji Zaimi appears in another paper of Zalgaller: V. A. Zalgaller. Extremal problems on the convex hull of a space curve. Algebra i Analiz, 8(3):1–13, 1996 …

In any Hadamard space, projection into convex sets is non-expansive; see Proposition 2.4(4) in Metric spaces of non-positive curvature by Bridson and Haefliger.

I have recently finished a paper called The length, width, and inradius of space curves where it is shown that the length $L$ of any closed curve $\gamma\colon[a,b]\to \mathbf{R}^3$ inspecting the u …

For $n=3$ the answer is yes, as was shown by Fejes Tóth in 1943; see the Theorem on p.34 of his book Regular Figures. For $n=4$ the answer is also positive as shown in the 2000 paper, The blocking num …

An umbilic point of a smooth ($C^2$) convex surface in Euclidean 3-space is a point where the principal curvatures are equal. Is there some good way to generalize this notion to convex polyhedra? See …