The security conjecture for Riemannian tori
The security conjecture for Riemannian tori
Let be a Riemannian torus, meaning a manifold diffeomorphic to a torus equipped with a Riemannian metric. A finite set is a blocking set for points if every geodesic joining and passes through a point of . The torus is secure if every pair of points, including a point paired with itself, admits such a finite blocking set. Torus security conjecture. A Riemannian torus is secure if and only if it is flat. The abstract describes this as a consequence of the general security conjecture, and the paper proves it for two-dimensional tori; the assertion for tori of arbitrary dimension remains open in the source.
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Victor Bangert and Eugene Gutkin, “Secure two-dimensional tori are flat”, arXiv:0806.3572 (2008).
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