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Bicycle tracks with hyperbolic monodromy -- results and conjectures

Differential Geometry 2025-01-07 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We find new necessary and sufficient conditions for the bicycling monodromy of a closed plane curve to be hyperbolic. Our main tool is the ``hyperbolic development" interpretation of the bicycling monodromy of plane curves. Based on computer experiments, we pose two conjectures concerning the bicycling monodromy of strictly convex closed plane curves.

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@article{arxiv.2412.18676,
  title  = {Bicycle tracks with hyperbolic monodromy -- results and conjectures},
  author = {G. Bor and L. Hernández-Lamoneda and S. Tabachnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18676},
  year   = {2025}
}
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