Spaces of Locally Convex Curves in S and Combinatorics of the Group B

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  • NICOLAU C. SALDANHA
  • Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
چکیده

In the 1920’s Marston Morse developed what is now known as Morse theory trying to study the topology of the space of closed curves on S2 ([7], [5]). We propose to attack a very similar problem, which 80 years later remains open, about the topology of the space of closed curves on S2 which are locally convex (i.e., without inflection points). One of the main difficulties is the absence of the covering homotopy principle for the map sending a nonclosed locally convex curve to the Frenet frame at its endpoint. In the present paper we study the spaces of locally convex curves in Sn with a given initial and final Frenet frames. Using combinatorics of B n+1 = Bn+1 ∩ SOn+1, where Bn+1 ⊂ On+1 is the usual Coxeter-Weyl group, we show that for any n ≥ 2 these spaces fall in at most d 2 e + 1 equivalence classes up to homeomorphism. We also study this classification in the double cover Spin(n + 1). For n = 2 our results complete the classification of the corresponding spaces into two topologically distinct classes, or three classes in the spin case.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012