Tameness conjecture for the rolling-surface -geometry
Tameness conjecture for the rolling-surface -geometry
Let and be Riemannian surfaces whose Gauss curvatures differ at every pair of points, and let be the space of linear isometries between tangent planes of and . The nondegenerate -plane field on carries a -geometry. Let and denote the common lengths of the closed geodesics on and , respectively, when those common lengths exist. Rolling-surface tameness conjecture. The -geometry on is tame if and only if both surfaces are Zoll surfaces, meaning that all their geodesics are closed and embedded curves, and is a rational multiple of . The conjecture proposes a precise relation between tameness and the global geodesic dynamics of the two surfaces; the supplied text gives no resolution.
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Benjamin McKay, “Morphisms of Cartan connections”, arXiv:0802.1473 (2010).
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