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Germs of tubular neighborhood embeddings for submanifolds N of manifolds M are in one-one correspondence with germs of Euler-like vector fields near N. In many contexts, this reduces the proof of `normal forms results' for geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Eckhard Meinrenken

The Complex Axis theorem states that any endomorphism of a finite-dimensional complex vector space affords an eigen-vector (or "invariant axis"). A geometric proof of this geometric result was given by A. de Medeiros, transforming the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Jon A. Sjogren

The Poincar\'e-Hopf Theorem relates the Euler characteristic of a 2-dimensional compact manifold to the local behavior of smooth vector fields defined on it. However, despite the importance of Filippov vector fields, concerning both their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Joyce A. Casimiro , Ricardo M. Martins , Douglas D. Novaes

Two-dimensional Euler insulators are novel kind of systems that host multi-gap topological phases, quantified by a quantised first Euler number in their bulk. Recently, these phases have been experimentally realised in suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Adrien Bouhon , Yan-Qing Zhu , Robert-Jan Slager , Giandomenico Palumbo

In [2], N.Dutertre and T. Fukui used Viro's integral calculus to study the topology of stable maps $f:M\rightarrow N$ between two smooth manifolds $M$ and $N$. They also discussed several applications to Morin maps. In particular, in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Camila M. Ruiz

We extend the well-known formula for the Euler class of a real oriented even-dimensional vector bundle in terms of the curvature of a metric connection to the case of a general linear connection provided a metric is present. We rewrite the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Brian Klatt

We use the mapping cone for the relative deRham cohomology of a manifold with boundary in order to show that the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for oriented Riemannian vector bundles over such manifolds is a manifestation of Lefschetz Duality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Daniel Cibotaru

Type families on higher inductive types such as pushouts can capture homotopical properties of differential geometric constructions including connections, curvature, and vector fields. We define a class of pushouts based on simplicial…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Greg Langmead

We discuss secondary (and higher) characteristic classes for algebraic vector bundles with trivial top Chern class. We show that if X is a smooth affine scheme of dimension d over a field k of finite 2-cohomological dimension (with char(k)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Aravind Asok , Jean Fasel

We geometrically construct a homology theory that generalizes the Euler characteristic mod 2 to objects in the unoriented cobordism ring N_*(X) of a topological space X. This homology theory Eh_* has coefficients Z/2 in every nonnegative…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julia Weber

Vector fields and line fields, their counterparts without orientations on tangent lines, are familiar objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Among the techniques used in their study, the Morse--Smale decomposition of a (generic) field…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Tiago Novello , João Paixão , Carlos Tomei , Thomas Lewiner

We consider closed manifolds that admit a metric locally isometric to a product of symmetric planes. For such manifolds, we prove that the Euler characteristic is an obstruction to the existence of flat structures, confirming an old…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-23 Michelle Bucher , Tsachik Gelander

It is shown that the Poincar\'e-Birkhoff fixed point theorem may be proven by extending the geometric approach originally devised by Henri Poincar\'e himself, along with several results from elementary differential topology. Beginning with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Andrew J. Graven , John H. Hubbard

We give a description of the delocalized twisted cohomology of an orbifold and the Chern character of a twisted vector bundle in terms of supersymmetric Euclidean field theories. This includes the construction of a twist functor for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Augusto Stoffel

The purpose of this short note is to prove a formula for the Chern-Mather classes of a toric variety in terms of its orbits and the local Euler obstructions at general points of each orbit (Theorem 2). We use the general definition of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Ragni Piene

In this paper we show how to translate into tensorial language the Chern-Weil theorem for the Lorentz symmetry, which equates the difference of the Euler densities of two manifolds to the exterior derivative of a transgression form. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Nathalie Deruelle , Nelson Merino , Rodrigo Olea

We give an elementary proof of the fact that a pure-dimensional closed subvariety of a complex abelian variety has a signed intersection homology Euler characteristic. We also show that such subvarieties which, moreover, are local complete…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Eva Elduque , Christian Geske , Laurentiu Maxim

"V - E + F = 2", the famous Euler's polyhedral formula, has a natural generalization to convex polytopes in every finite dimension, also known as the Euler-Poincar\'e Formula. We provide another short inductive proof of the general formula.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Petr Hliněný

We prove two geometric index theorems for a family of first-order elliptic operators over a manifold with boundary by computing eta form representatives for the Chern character classes of the index bundle. The eta forms occur as relative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Scott

We state and prove a generalization of the Poincar\'e-Hopf index theorem for manifolds with boundary. We then apply this result to non-vanishing complex vector fields.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-21 Benoît Jubin