Minimum minimizing index conjecture for doubled regular odd prime-gons

Let XpX_p be the doubled regular pp-gon, where pp is an odd prime. The minimizing index minind(Xp)\operatorname{minind}(X_p) is the smallest positive integer kk such that XpX_p admits a 1/k1/k-geodesic. Minimum minimizing index conjecture.

minind(Xp)=2p.\operatorname{minind}(X_p)=2p.

The paper establishes that doubled regular odd nn-gons admit a 1/2n1/2n-geodesic and therefore gives the upper bound minind(Xn)2n\operatorname{minind}(X_n)\leq 2n; it also rules out half-geodesics. The conjecture asserts that this upper bound is sharp when n=pn=p is an odd prime.

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Ian Adelstein and Adam Fong, “Closed geodesics on doubled polygons”, arXiv:1909.09275 (2019).

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