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Profiles of inflated surfaces

Differential Geometry 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We study the shape of inflated surfaces introduced in \cite{B1} and \cite{P1}. More precisely, we analyze profiles of surfaces obtained by inflating a convex polyhedron, or more generally an almost everywhere flat surface, with a symmetry plane. We show that such profiles are in a one-parameter family of curves which we describe explicitly as the solutions of a certain differential equation.

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@article{arxiv.0907.5057,
  title  = {Profiles of inflated surfaces},
  author = {Igor Pak and Jean-Marc Schlenker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5057},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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