English

Curve packing and modulus estimates

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-07-26 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A family of planar curves is called a Moser family if it contains an isometric copy of every rectifiable curve in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} of length one. The classical "worm problem" of L. Moser from 1966 asks for the least area covered by the curves in any Moser family. In 1979, J. M. Marstrand proved that the answer is not zero: the union of curves in a Moser family has always area at least cc for some small absolute constant c>0c > 0. We strengthen Marstrand's result by showing that for p>3p > 3, the pp-modulus of a Moser family of curves is at least cp>0c_{p} > 0.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.01707,
  title  = {Curve packing and modulus estimates},
  author = {Katrin Fässler and Tuomas Orponen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01707},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 figures. v2: Improved main result (replaced 4 by 3)

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