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Centroaffine Duality for Spatial Polygons

Differential Geometry 2019-05-14 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss centroaffine geometry of polygons in 33-space. For a polygon XX that is locally convex with respect to an origin together with a transversal vector field UU, we define the centroaffine dual pair (Y,V)(Y,V) similarly to [6]. We prove that vertices of (X,U)(X,U) correspond to flattening points for (Y,V)(Y,V) and also that constant curvature polygons are dual to planar polygons. As an application, we give a new proof of a known 44 flattening points theorem for spatial polygons.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01086,
  title  = {Centroaffine Duality for Spatial Polygons},
  author = {Marcos Craizer and Sinesio Pesco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01086},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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