Work

I put in a good day's work at the office today. Those have been rare lately. (Not because of the "good" part; it's the "at the office" that's the problem. Enervating heat, y'know.) After a brief meeting with my Master's student, I got to work on the revisions to the prisms paper. I've now fulfilled all but one of the referee's recommendations - beefed up the introduction, reorganized and clarified the conclusion, and added several new illustrations. What remains is to add some comments on the non-simple case. ("Simple", here, means that the geodesic does not cross itself.) Unfortunately, I've barely scratched the surface of that part of the problem. More, the specific question the referee asked - a simple yes-no question - is one I not only can't answer, I don't have any real idea how to answer it. (I'm fairly certain that the answer is "No", but that's more intuition than anything else.)

I'll go in again tomorrow and see if I can come up with any scraps of information that might please the ref.