Long geodesics on convex surfaces

16 Feb 2017  ·  Arseniy Akopyan, Anton Petrunin ·

We review the theory of intrinsic geometry of convex surfaces in the Euclidean space and prove the following theorem: if the surface of a convex body K contains arbitrary long closed simple geodesics, then K is an isosceles tetrahedron.

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