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Unwinding spirals

Geometric Topology 2016-03-11 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that there is no bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism of R2\mathbb{R}^2 that maps a spiral with a sub-exponential decay of winding radii to an unwinded arc. This result is sharp as shows an example of a logarithmic spiral.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.03145,
  title  = {Unwinding spirals},
  author = {Alexander Fish and Laurentiu Paunescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03145},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures

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