The classification conjecture for immersions with the central cross-cut property
The classification conjecture for immersions with the central cross-cut property
Let be a complete immersion with the central cross-cut property, meaning that at least one clean cross-cut exists and the image of every clean cross-cut has central symmetry. A central cylinder is an immersion with a cross-cut preserved by a line of translations and by a central reflection; a tubular quadric is a non-degenerate quadric hypersurface affinely equivalent to a locus of the form
Classification conjecture. Every complete immersion with the central cross-cut property must be either a central cylinder or a tubular quadric.
In Euclidean three-space, central cylinders and spheres provide the known examples, with tubular quadrics including all non-degenerate quadrics. The conjecture asserts that these two classes exhaust all complete immersions whose clean cross-cuts have central symmetry; the supplied text gives no resolution evidence.
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Bruce Solomon, “Central figure-8 cross-cuts make surfaces cylindrical”, arXiv:1509.04967 (2015).
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