Generic doubling of rectangular pegs

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contents We prove a multiplicity result for rectangular pegs that there is a generic class of smooth Jordan curves in which every curve admits two geometrically distinct similar inscribed rectangles with aspect angle in $(0,\fracπ{2})$, based on the existence of rectangular pegs in any smooth Jordan curve, which is first proved by Greene and Lobb [GL21] and we give an alternative Floer theoretical proof in this paper. The key insight is that the rectangular peg problem is translated into finding intersection points of two Lagrangian tori. We present two distinct proofs for the multiplicity result: one involves Lagrangian Floer homology, and the other is differential topological in nature which employs a novel computation formula for the algebraic intersection number. Both rely crucially on certain generic geometric transversality of the two tori, and the correspondence between the intersection points and the inscribed rectangles. Moreover, such a generic doubling result can be further extended to cyclic quadrilateral pegs based on the existence result [GL23]. In Appendix B, written jointly with Urs Frauenfelder, we provide the detailed derivation of the computation formula for the algebraic intersection number.
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spellingShingle Generic doubling of rectangular pegs
Gao, Zhen
Symplectic Geometry
Geometric Topology
We prove a multiplicity result for rectangular pegs that there is a generic class of smooth Jordan curves in which every curve admits two geometrically distinct similar inscribed rectangles with aspect angle in $(0,\fracπ{2})$, based on the existence of rectangular pegs in any smooth Jordan curve, which is first proved by Greene and Lobb [GL21] and we give an alternative Floer theoretical proof in this paper. The key insight is that the rectangular peg problem is translated into finding intersection points of two Lagrangian tori. We present two distinct proofs for the multiplicity result: one involves Lagrangian Floer homology, and the other is differential topological in nature which employs a novel computation formula for the algebraic intersection number. Both rely crucially on certain generic geometric transversality of the two tori, and the correspondence between the intersection points and the inscribed rectangles. Moreover, such a generic doubling result can be further extended to cyclic quadrilateral pegs based on the existence result [GL23]. In Appendix B, written jointly with Urs Frauenfelder, we provide the detailed derivation of the computation formula for the algebraic intersection number.
title Generic doubling of rectangular pegs
topic Symplectic Geometry
Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13209