{"title":"Extremal isosystolic metrics with multiple bands of crossing geodesics","authors":"Usman Naseer, B. Zwiebach","doi":"10.4310/atmp.2022.v26.n5.a7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We apply recently developed convex programs to find the minimal-area Riemannian metric on $2n$-sided polygons ($n\\geq 3$) with length conditions on curves joining opposite sides. We argue that the Riemannian extremal metric coincides with the conformal extremal metric on the regular $2n$-gon. The hexagon was considered by Calabi. The region covered by the maximal number $n$ of geodesics bands extends over most of the surface and exhibits positive curvature. As $n\\to \\infty$ the metric, away from the boundary, approaches the well-known round extremal metric on $\\mathbb{RP}_2$. We extend Calabi's isosystolic variational principle to the case of regions with more than three bands of systolic geodesics. The extremal metric on $\\mathbb{RP}_2$ is a stationary point of this functional applied to a surface with infinite number of systolic bands.","PeriodicalId":50848,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4310/atmp.2022.v26.n5.a7","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We apply recently developed convex programs to find the minimal-area Riemannian metric on $2n$-sided polygons ($n\geq 3$) with length conditions on curves joining opposite sides. We argue that the Riemannian extremal metric coincides with the conformal extremal metric on the regular $2n$-gon. The hexagon was considered by Calabi. The region covered by the maximal number $n$ of geodesics bands extends over most of the surface and exhibits positive curvature. As $n\to \infty$ the metric, away from the boundary, approaches the well-known round extremal metric on $\mathbb{RP}_2$. We extend Calabi's isosystolic variational principle to the case of regions with more than three bands of systolic geodesics. The extremal metric on $\mathbb{RP}_2$ is a stationary point of this functional applied to a surface with infinite number of systolic bands.
期刊介绍:
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is a bimonthly publication of the International Press, publishing papers on all areas in which theoretical physics and mathematics interact with each other.