An Extension of Cauchy's Arm Lemma with Application to Curve Development

  • Authors:
  • Joseph O'Rourke

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • JCDCG '00 Revised Papers from the Japanese Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Cauchy's "Arm Lemma" may be generalized to permit nonconvex "openings" of a planar convex chain. Although this (and further extensions) were known, no proofs have appeared in the literature. Here two induction proofs are offered. The extension can then be employed to establish that a curve that is the intersection of a plane with a convex polyhedron "develops" without self-intersection.