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We give a concrete example of an infinite sequence of $(p_n, q_n)$-lens spaces $L(p_n, q_n)$ with natural triangulations $T(p_n, q_n)$ with $p_n$ taterahedra such that $L(p_n, q_n)$ contains a certain non-orientable closed surface which is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-09-11 Chuichiro Hayashi , Miwa Iwakura

Extensions of the generalized Weierstrass representation to generic surfaces in 4D Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces are given. Geometric characteristics of surfaces are calculated. It is shown that integrable deformations of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. G. Konopelchenko , G. Landolfi

We classify incompressible, boundary-incompressible, nonorientable surfaces in punctured-torus bundles over $S^1$. We use the ideas of Floyd, Hatcher, and Thurston. The main tool is to put our surface in the "Morse position" with respect to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Jozef H. Przytycki

We consider closed and orientable immersed hypersurfaces of translational manifolds. Given a vector field on such a hypersurface, we define a perturbation of its Gauss map, which allows us to obtain topological invariants for the immersion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Ícaro Gonçalves , Eduardo Longa

One can embed arbitrarily many disjoint, non-parallel, non-boundary parallel, incompressible surfaces in any three manifold with at least one boundary component of genus two or greater [4]. This paper proves the contrasting, but not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hugh Nelson Howards

Let M be a closed hyperbolic three manifold. We construct closed surfaces which map by immersions into M so that for each one the corresponding mapping on the universal covering spaces is an embedding, or, in other words, the corresponding…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jeremy Kahn , Vladimir Markovic

We first describe the numerical invariants attached to the second fundamental form of a spacelike surface in four-dimensional Minkowski space. We then study the configuration of the nu-principal curvature lines on a spacelike surface, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Pierre Bayard , Federico Sánchez-Bringas

We study the congruence of bitangent lines of an irreducible surface in the 3-dimensional projective space in arbitrary characteristic, with special attention to quartic surfaces with rational double points and, in particular, Kummer…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Igor Dolgachev , Shigeyuki Kondō

This paper studies properly embedded surfaces in the 4-ball that are exotically knotted (i.e., topologically but not smoothly isotopic), and leverages this local phenomenon to study surfaces in larger 4-manifolds. The main results provide a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Kyle Hayden

A unicellular map is the embedding of a connected graph in a surface in such a way that the complement of the graph is a topological disk. In this paper we present a bijective link between unicellular maps on a non-orientable surface and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-20 Olivier Bernardi , Guillaume Chapuy

We study finite order invariants of null-homotopic immersions of a closed orientable surface into an aspherical orientable 3-manifold. We give the foundational constructions, and classify all order one invariants.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tahl Nowik

Meridian surfaces in the Euclidean 4-space are two-dimensional surfaces which are one-parameter systems of meridians of a standard rotational hypersurface. On the base of our invariant theory of surfaces we study meridian surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

A classification and examples of four-dimensional isoclinic three-webs of codimension two are given. The examples considered prove the existence theorem for many classes of webs for which the general existence theorems are not proved yet.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Vladislav V. Goldberg

Classes of branched surfaces extend the classes of surfaces or 2-dimensional manifolds satisfying suitable properties and defined in various manners. Reeb spaces of smooth maps of suitable classes into surfaces whose codimensions are…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Naoki Kitazawa

Constrained Willmore surfaces are conformal immersions of Riemann surfaces that are critical points of the Willmore energy $W=\int H^2$ under compactly supported infinitesimal conformal variations. Examples include all constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Christoph Bohle , G. Paul Peters , Ulrich Pinkall

We consider the space of embeddings of finitely many circles that bound disks in non-positively curved surfaces. We index the connected components of this space with finite rooted trees and show that the connected components are classifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ryan C. Gelnett

Applying Morse theory, we give a standard form for a class of surfaces which includes all the properly embedded incompressible surfaces in 3-dimensional handlebodies. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition to determine the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Wei Lin , Fengchun Lei

Specific examples of the generalized Raychaudhuri Equations for the evolution of deformations along families of $D$ dimensional surfaces embedded in a background $N$ dimensional spacetime are discussed. These include string worldsheets…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sayan Kar

Rotary maps (orientably regular maps) are highly symmetric graph embeddings on orientable surfaces. This paper classifies all rotary maps whose underlying graphs are Praeger-Xu graphs, denoted $\operatorname{C}(p,r,s)$, for any odd prime…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Zhaochen Ding , Zheng Guo , Luyi Liu

In the present paper we study the problem of constructing a family of surfaces (surface pencils) from a given curve in 4-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{4}$. We have shown that generalized rotation surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^{4}$ are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Betül Bulca , Kadri Arslan