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We propose and mathematically analyze a new Shifted Boundary Method for the treatment of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, with provable optimal accuracy in the $L^2$- and $H^1$-norms of the error. The proposed method is built on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 J. Haydel Collins , Kangan Li , Alexei Lozinski , Guglielmo Scovazzi

$\newcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We study the minWSPD problem of computing the minimum-size well-separated pairs decomposition of a set of points, and show constant approximation algorithms in low-dimensional Euclidean space and doubling…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kevin Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Sariel Har-Peled , Antonia Kalb , Abhiruk Lahiri , Lukas Plätz , Carolin Rehs , Sampson Wong

Even the most superficial glance at the vast majority of crossing-minimal geometric drawings of $K_n$ reveals two hard-to-miss features. First, all such drawings appear to be 3-fold symmetric (or simply {\em 3-symmetric}) . And second, they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-08 B. Ábrego , M. Cetina , S. Fernández--Merchant , J. Leaños , G. Salazar

In this paper, we obtain a complete description of the class of n-tuples (n >= 2) of doubly commuting isometries. In particular, we present a several variables analogue of the Wold decomposition for isometries on Hilbert spaces. Our main…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Jaydeb Sarkar

We study the minimum number of distinct distances between point sets on two curves in $R^3$. Assume that one curve contains $m$ points and the other $n$ points. Our main results: (a) When the curves are conic sections, we characterize all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Toby Aldape , Jingyi Liu , Gregory Pylypovych , Adam Sheffer , Minh-Quan Vo

We prove that, for sufficiently large $n$, every graph of order $n$ with minimum degree at least $0.852n$ has a fractional edge-decomposition into triangles. We do this by refining a method used by Dross to establish a bound of $0.9n$. By a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Peter J. Dukes , Daniel Horsley

In machine learning and particularly in topological data analysis, $\epsilon$-graphs are important tools but are generally hard to compute as the distance calculation between n points takes time O(n^2) classically. Recently, quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Naomi Mona Chmielewski , Nina Amini , Paulin Jacquot , Joseph Mikael

We identify a new way to divide the $\delta$-neighborhood of surfaces $\mathcal{M}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ into a finitely-overlapping collection of rectangular boxes $S$. We obtain a sharp $(l^2,L^p)$ decoupling estimate using this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Larry Guth , Dominique Maldague , Changkeun Oh

We show that any non-minimal bridge decomposition of a torus knot is stabilized and that $n$-bridge decompositions of a torus knot are unique for any integer $n$. This implies that a knot in a bridge position is a torus knot if and only if…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Makoto Ozawa

Clique complexes of Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs with edge probability between $n^{-{1\over 3}}$ and $n^{-{1\over 2}}$ are shown to be aas not simply connected. This entails showing that a connected two dimensional simplicial complex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Eric Babson

We give new bounds for the distance between two exceptional filling slopes for a 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold in several different situations. The distance between a reducible slope and a slope that produces a manifold with finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Steve Boyer , Marc Culler , Peter B. Shalen , Xingru Zhang

Computation of the interleaving distance between persistence modules is a central task in topological data analysis. For $1$-parameter persistence modules, thanks to the isometry theorem, this can be done by computing the bottleneck…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

Minimum Bisection denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets of equal sizes while minimizing the width of the bisection, which is defined as the number of edges between these two sets. We first consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

To each link $L$ in $S^3$ we associate a collection of certain labelled directed trees, called width trees. We interpret some classical and new topological link invariants in terms of these width trees and show how the geometric structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Qidong He , Scott A. Taylor

We exhibit an algorithm to determine the bridge number of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere. The proof uses adaptations of almost normal surface theory for compact surfaces with boundary in ideally triangulated knot exteriors.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Alexander Coward

In this paper we generalize and improve a recently developed domain decomposition preconditioner for the iterative solution of discretized Helmholtz equations. We introduce an improved method for transmission at the internal boundaries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Christiaan C. Stolk

If a knot K in a closed, orientable 3-manifold M has a bridge surface T with distance at least 3 in the curve complex of T - K, then the genus of any essential surface in its exterior with non-empty, non-meridional boundary gives rise to an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Ryan Blair , Marion Campisi , Jesse Johnson , Scott A. Taylor , Maggy Tomova

Meier and Zupan showed that every surface in the four-sphere admits a bridge trisection and can therefore be represented by three simple tangles. This raises the possibility of applying methods from link homology to knotted surfaces. We use…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Adam Saltz

We derive upper and lower bounds on the sum of distances of a spherical code of size $N$ in $n$ dimensions when $N\sim n^\alpha, 0<\alpha\le 2.$ The bounds are derived by specializing recent general, universal bounds on energy of spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Alexander Barg , Peter Boyvalenkov , Maya Stoyanova

We propose a method for obtaining the Schmidt decomposition of bipartite systems with continuous variables. It approximates the modes to the prescribed accuracy by well known orthogonal functions. We give some criteria for the control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lucas Lamata , Juan Leon