English

Self-shrinking Platonic solids

Differential Geometry 2016-02-24 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We construct new embedded self-shrinkers of genus 3, 5, 7, 11 and 19 using variational methods. Our self-shrinkers resemble doublings of the Platonic solids and were discovered numerically by D. Chopp in 1994.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.07271,
  title  = {Self-shrinking Platonic solids},
  author = {Daniel Ketover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07271},
  year   = {2016}
}
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