English

Every smooth Jordan curve has an inscribed rectangle with aspect ratio equal to $\sqrt{3}$

Metric Geometry 2018-03-21 v1

Abstract

We use Batson's lower bound on the nonorientable slice genus of (2n,2n1)(2n,2n-1)-torus knots to prove that for any n2n \geq 2, every smooth Jordan curve has an inscribed rectangle of of aspect ratio tan(πk2n)\tan(\frac{\pi k}{2n}) for some k{1,...,n1}k\in \{1,...,n-1\}. Setting n=3n = 3, we have that every smooth Jordan curve has an inscribed rectangle of aspect ratio 3\sqrt{3}.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07417,
  title  = {Every smooth Jordan curve has an inscribed rectangle with aspect ratio equal to $\sqrt{3}$},
  author = {Cole Hugelmeyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07417},
  year   = {2018}
}