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The geodesic complexity of a Riemannian manifold is a numerical isometry invariant that is determined by the structure of its cut loci. In this article we study decompositions of cut loci over whose components the tangent cut loci fiber in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

The ropelength of a knot is the minimum contour length of a tube of unit radius that traces out the knot in three dimensional space without self-overlap, colloquially the minimum amount of rope needed to tie a given knot. Theoretical upper…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexander R. Klotz , Matthew Maldonado

We prove that the problem of deciding whether a 2- or 3-dimensional simplicial complex embeds into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is NP-hard. Our construction also shows that deciding whether a 3-manifold with boundary tori admits an $\mathbb{S}^{3}$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Arnaud de Mesmay , Yo'av Rieck , Eric Sedgwick , Martin Tancer

We investigate the maximal solid tubes around short simple geodesics in hyperbolic three-manifolds and how complex length of curves relate to closed, incompressible, least area minimal surfaces. As applications, we prove, there are some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Zheng Huang , Biao Wang

We produce an upper bound for the Hausdorff dimension of the graph of a Weierstrass-type function. Whilst strictly weaker than existing results, it has the advantage of being directly computable from the theory of hyperbolic iterated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Ted Alexander , Tommy Murphy

We classify positive tight contact structures, up to isotopy fixing the boundary, on the manifolds $N=M(D^{2}; r_1, r_2)$ with minimal convex boundary of slope $s$ and Giroux torsion 0 along $\partial N$, where $r_1,r_2\in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Fan Ding , Youlin Li , Qiang Zhang

In this paper, we study upper bounds for the topological complexity of the total spaces of some classes of fibre bundles. We calculate a tight upper bound for the topological complexity of an $n$-dimensional Klein bottle. We also compute…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Navnath Daundkar , Soumen Sarkar

For a knot $K,$ a slope $r$ is said to be characterizing if for no other knot $J$ does $r$-framed surgery along $J$ yield the same manifold as $r$-framed surgery on $K.$ Applying a condition of Baker and Motegi, we show that the knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Konstantinos Varvarezos

We show that a compact Kaehler manifold X is a complex torus if both the continuous part and discrete part of some automorphism group G of X are infinite groups, unless X is bimeromorphic to a non-trivial G-equivariant fibration. Some…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Baohua Fu , De-Qi Zhang

We study the sutured Floer homology invariants of the sutured manifold obtained by cutting a knot complement along a Seifert surface, R. We show that these invariants are finer than the "top term" of the knot Floer homology, which they…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Matthew Hedden , Andras Juhasz , Sucharit Sarkar

We show that all two-bridge knot and link complements are virtually fibered. We also show that spherical Montesinos knot and link complements are virtually fibered. This is accomplished by showing that such knot complements are finitely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Genevieve S. Walsh

We establish a criterion that ensures a bounded almost complex curve in a bounded almost complex 4-manifold minimizes genus amongst all smooth surfaces that share its homology class and the transverse link on its boundary. An immediate…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Matthew Hedden , Katherine Raoux

In this paper we investigate the descriptional complexity of knot theoretic problems and show upper bounds for planarity problem of signed and unsigned knot diagrams represented by Gauss words. Since a topological equivalence of knots can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Vitaliy Kurlin , Alexei Lisitsa , Igor Potapov , Rafiq Saleh

We find conditions which ensure that the topological complexity of a closed manifold $M$ with abelian fundamental group is nonmaximal, and see through examples that our conditions are sharp. This generalizes results of Costa and Farber on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Daniel C. Cohen , Lucile Vandembroucq

In this paper, we define the primitive/Seifert-fibered property for a knot in S^3. If satisfied, the property ensures that the knot has a Dehn surgery that yields a small Seifert-fibered space (i.e. base S^2 and three or fewer critical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 John C. Dean

We introduce the higher topological complexity (TC_{n}) of a fibration in two ways: the higher homotopic distance and the Schwarz genus. Then we have some results on this notion related to TC, TC_{n} or cat of a topological space or a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Melih Is , Ismet Karaca

We describe a procedure for creating infinite families of hyperbolic knots having unique minimal genus Seifert surface. A large subset of these knots have the further property that the surface cannot be the sole compact leaf of a depth one…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Brittenham

We determine the closed, oriented Seifert fibered 3-manifolds which carry positive tight contact structures. Our main tool is a new non-vanishing criterion for the contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariant.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Paolo Lisca , Andras I. Stipsicz

Off-diagonal upper bounds are established away from the diagonal for the Bergman kernels associated to high powers of holomorphic line bundles over compact complex manifolds, asymptotically as the power tends to infinity. The line bundle is…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Michael Christ

Let $M$ be a fibered 3-manifold with multiple boundary components. We show that the fiber structure of $M$ transforms to closely related transversely oriented taut foliations realizing all rational multislopes in some open neighborhood of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tejas Kalelkar , Rachel Roberts