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arxiv 1706.02355 v1 pith:JUPBG6VB submitted 2017-06-07 math.MG

Shadows of a Closed Curve

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keywords circleorthogonalshadowstopologicalanalogbasiccaseclosed
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A shadow of a geometric object $A$ in a given direction $v$ is the orthogonal projection of $A$ on the hyperplane orthogonal to $v$. We show that any topological embedding of a circle into Euclidean $d$-space can have at most two shadows that are simple paths in linearly independent directions. The proof is topological and uses an analog of basic properties of degree of maps on a circle to relations on a circle. This extends a previous result which dealt with the case $d=3$.

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