Quasigeodesics on the Cube
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| author | MIT CompGeom Group Akitaya, Hugo A. Demaine, Erik D. Hesterberg, Adam Hull, Thomas C. Lubiw, Anna Lynch, Jayson Mundilova, Klara Nara, Chie O'Rourke, Joseph Stock, Frederick Tkadlec, Josef Uehara, Ryuhei |
| author_facet | MIT CompGeom Group Akitaya, Hugo A. Demaine, Erik D. Hesterberg, Adam Hull, Thomas C. Lubiw, Anna Lynch, Jayson Mundilova, Klara Nara, Chie O'Rourke, Joseph Stock, Frederick Tkadlec, Josef Uehara, Ryuhei |
| contents | A quasigeodesic is a curve on the surface of a convex polyhedron that has $\le π$ surface to each side at every point. In contrast, a geodesic has exactly $π$ to each side and so can never pass through a vertex, whereas quasigeodesics can. Although it is known that every convex polyhedron has at least three simple closed quasigeodesics, little else is known. Only tetrahedra have been thoroughly studied.
In this paper we explore the quasigeodesics on a cube, which have not been previously enumerated. We prove that the cube has exactly $15$ simple closed quasigeodesics (beyond the three known simple closed geodesics). For the lower bound we detail $15$ simple closed quasigeodesics. Our main contribution is establishing a matching upper bound. For general convex polyhedra, there is no known upper bound. |
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| spellingShingle | Quasigeodesics on the Cube MIT CompGeom Group Akitaya, Hugo A. Demaine, Erik D. Hesterberg, Adam Hull, Thomas C. Lubiw, Anna Lynch, Jayson Mundilova, Klara Nara, Chie O'Rourke, Joseph Stock, Frederick Tkadlec, Josef Uehara, Ryuhei Metric Geometry 52B10, 52C99, 53C22 F.2.2; G.2.2 A quasigeodesic is a curve on the surface of a convex polyhedron that has $\le π$ surface to each side at every point. In contrast, a geodesic has exactly $π$ to each side and so can never pass through a vertex, whereas quasigeodesics can. Although it is known that every convex polyhedron has at least three simple closed quasigeodesics, little else is known. Only tetrahedra have been thoroughly studied. In this paper we explore the quasigeodesics on a cube, which have not been previously enumerated. We prove that the cube has exactly $15$ simple closed quasigeodesics (beyond the three known simple closed geodesics). For the lower bound we detail $15$ simple closed quasigeodesics. Our main contribution is establishing a matching upper bound. For general convex polyhedra, there is no known upper bound. |
| title | Quasigeodesics on the Cube |
| topic | Metric Geometry 52B10, 52C99, 53C22 F.2.2; G.2.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10376 |