2001
DOI: 10.2140/agt.2001.1.349
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A characterization of shortest geodesics on surfaces

Abstract: Any finite configuration of curves with minimal intersections on a surface is a configuration of shortest geodesics for some Riemannian metric on the surface. The metric can be chosen to make the lengths of these geodesics equal to the number of intersections along them.

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“…We will always assume that collections of arcs on a surface are in minimal position, in the sense that they cross each other transversaly, and the number of crossings is minimal. It is pointed out in [Thu08] that the results in [FHS82] and [NC01] imply that this assumption can always be satisfied (up to homotopy). Some examples of dual cellular dissections on different surfaces are represented in Figure 3.…”
Section: Accordion Complex Slalom Complex and Non-crossing Complexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We will always assume that collections of arcs on a surface are in minimal position, in the sense that they cross each other transversaly, and the number of crossings is minimal. It is pointed out in [Thu08] that the results in [FHS82] and [NC01] imply that this assumption can always be satisfied (up to homotopy). Some examples of dual cellular dissections on different surfaces are represented in Figure 3.…”
Section: Accordion Complex Slalom Complex and Non-crossing Complexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, the left-hand side of Proof: This follows, for instance, from the fact that a diagram is taut if and only if it is length-minimizing with respect to some metric (17,18). □ Diagrams can be monotonically simplified.…”
Section: Preliminaries On Surfaces and Curvesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We will provide a sketch of Max Neumann-Coto's construction of such a metric. A more detailed argument can be found in Lemma 1.2 of his paper [14].…”
Section: Star Log Symplectic Surfacesmentioning
confidence: 99%