The discrete Segre flattening conjecture for spherical polygons

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Let PP be an embedded closed polygon in S2S^2 that bisects the area, and call a vertex configuration a flattening when it has the polygonal analogue of an inflection point. Discrete Segre conjecture. The polygon PP has at least 44 flattenings. This is the discrete analogue of a smooth result attributed in the source to B. Segre and V. Arnold; the source presents the statement as a conjecture and seeks a specifically discrete proof.

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V. Ovsienko and S. Tabachnikov, “Projective geometry of polygons and discrete 4-vertex and 6-vertex theorems”, arXiv:math/9909150 (1999).

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