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Impossible configurations for geodesics on negatively-curved surfaces

Geometric Topology 2019-10-04 v2

Abstract

Hass and Scott's example of a 4-valent graph on the 3-punctured sphere that cannot be realized by geodesics in any metric of negative curvature is generalized to impossible configurations filling surfaces of genus nn with kk punctures for any nn and kk.

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@article{arxiv.1902.09027,
  title  = {Impossible configurations for geodesics on negatively-curved surfaces},
  author = {Anthony Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.09027},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

11pages, 9 figures

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