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On inscribed trapezoids and affinely 3-regular maps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2023
Abstract
We show that any embedding $\mathbb {R}^d \to \mathbb {R}^{2d+2^{\gamma (d)}-1}$ inscribes a trapezoid or maps three points to a line, where $2^{\gamma (d)}$ is the smallest power of $2$ satisfying $2^{\gamma (d)} \geq \rho (d)$, and $\rho (d)$ denotes the Hurwitz–Radon function. The proof is elementary and includes a novel application of nonsingular bilinear maps. As an application, we recover recent results on the nonexistence of affinely $3$-regular maps, for infinitely many dimensions $d$, without resorting to sophisticated algebraic techniques.
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