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The Farthest Point Map on the Regular Octahedron

Metric Geometry 2021-03-03 v4

Abstract

On any compact space one can consider the map which sends a point to the set of points farthest from this point. In nice cases, there is just a single point farthest from a given point and so by restricting the domain slightly one can form a dynamical system on the space based on this map. We give a complete characterization of this map, including explicit formulas, when the metric space is the regular octahedron equipped with its intrinsic flat cone metric.

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@article{arxiv.2004.11852,
  title  = {The Farthest Point Map on the Regular Octahedron},
  author = {Richard Evan Schwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11852},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This version of the paper is being published, as is, in the Journal of Experimental math. It is very similar to the previous version, except that I corrected some typos and mildly simplied the argument in Chapter 3

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