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Geometries on Polygons in the unit disc

Metric Geometry 2023-11-13 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

For a family C\mathcal{C} of properly embedded curves in the 2-dimensional disk D2\mathbb{D}^{2} satisfying certain uniqueness properties, we consider convex polygons PD2P\subset \mathbb{D}^{2} and define a metric dd on PP such that (P,d)(P,d) is a geodesically complete metric space whose geodesics are precisely the curves {cPcC}.\left\{ c\cap P\bigm\vert c\in \mathcal{C}\right\}. Moreover, in the special case C\mathcal{C} consists of all Euclidean lines, it is shown that PP with this new metric is not isometric to any convex domain in R2\mathbb{R} ^{2} equipped with its Hilbert metric. We generalize this construction to certain classes of uniquely geodesic metric spaces homeomorphic to R2.\mathbb{R}^{2}.

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@article{arxiv.2311.05968,
  title  = {Geometries on Polygons in the unit disc},
  author = {Charalampos Charitos and Ioannis Papadoperakis and Georgios Tsapogas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.05968},
  year   = {2023}
}

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To appear in Rocky Mountain J. Math

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