Rigidity conjecture for optimal paper Möbius bands

Let a paper Möbius band be a smooth isometric embedding of the flat Möbius band MλM_{\lambda} in R3\mathbb{R}^3, and consider a sequence of smooth embedded paper Möbius bands whose aspect ratios converge to 3\sqrt{3}. Rigidity conjecture. The sequence converges, in the Hausdorff metric and up to isometries, to an equilateral triangle of semi-perimeter 3\sqrt{3}. This is the rigidity statement accompanying the optimality conjecture in the source; no resolution is supplied, so it remains open.

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Primary source

Richard Evan Schwartz, “On The Optimal Paper Moebius Band”, arXiv:2012.07783 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2012.06953.

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