Polygonal Bicycle Paths and the Darboux Transformation

2013/08/27 by Alevy, I., Tsukerman, E.
#Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Metric Geometry (math.MG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.5757

Abstract

A Bicycle (n,k)-gon is an equilateral n-gon whose k diagonals are of equal length. In this paper we consider periodic bicycle (n,k)-paths, which are a natural variation in which the polygon is replaced with a periodic polygonal path.

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