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A construction of polytopes is given based on integers. These geometries are constructed through a mapping to pure numbers and have multiple applications, including statistical mechanics and computer science. The number form is useful in…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

The purpose of this article is to give an interpretation of real projective structures and associated cohomology classes in terms of connections, sections, etc. satisfying elliptic partial differential equations in the spirit of Hodge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Labourie

The ancient art of origami, traditionally used to transform simple sheets into intricate objects, also holds potential for diverse engineering applications, such as shape morphing and robotics. In this study, we demonstrate that one of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Davood Farhadi , Laura Pernigoni , David Melancon , Katia Bertoldi

Origami structures have been widely explored in robotics due to their many potential advantages. Origami robots can be very compact, as well as cheap and efficient to produce. In particular, they can be constructed in a flat format using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Samira Zare , Alex Spaeth , Sandya Suresh , and Mircea Teodorescu

Origami structures are characterized by a network of folds and vertices joining unbendable plates. For applications to mechanical design and self-folding structures, it is essential to understand the interplay between the set of folds in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-01 Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Christian D. Santangelo

This paper addresses the problem of finding minimum forcing sets in origami. The origami material folds flat along straight lines called creases that can be labeled as mountains or valleys. A forcing set is a subset of creases that force…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mirela Damian , Erik Demaine , Muriel Dulieu , Robin Flatland , Hella Hoffman , Thomas C. Hull , Jayson Lynch , Suneeta Ramaswami

Kirigami, art of paper cutting, enables two-dimensional sheets transforming into unique shapes which are also hard to reshape once with prescribed cutting patterns. Rare kirigami designs manipulate cuts on three-dimensional objects to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-30 Yanbin Li , Jie Yin

This is a note constructing a certain weight 4 automorphic form on the moduli space of cubic surfaces, posted here because it is referred to in math.AG/0002066

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. E. Borcherds

Origami is the art of folding paper into various patterns without cutting or tearing the paper. By viewing the paper as the complex plane, we iteratively compute and record all intersection points to construct mathematical origami sets.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Sara Chari , Andrew Quinn Macauley

An origami manifold is a manifold equipped with a closed 2-form which is symplectic except on a hypersurface where it is like the pullback of a symplectic form by a folding map and its kernel fibrates with oriented circle fibers over a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-03 A. Cannas da Silva , V. Guillemin , A. R. Pires

Origami, the traditional paper-folding art, has inspired the modern design of numerous flexible structures in science and engineering. In particular, origami structures with different physical properties have been studied and utilized for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Rongxuan Li , Gary P. T. Choi

Let R be a ring. A construction method for flexible quadratic algebras with scalar involution over R is presented which unifies various classical constructions in the literature, in particular those to construct composition algebras.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pumpluen

We survey results on the foldability of flat origami models. The main topics are the question of when a given crease pattern can fold flat, the combinatorics of mountain and valley creases, and counting how many ways a given crease pattern…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Thomas C. Hull

A foundational result in origami mathematics is Kawasaki and Justin's simple, efficient characterization of flat foldability for unassigned single-vertex crease patterns (where each crease can fold mountain or valley) on flat material. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Lily Chung , Erik D. Demaine , Dylan Hendrickson , Victor Luo

One-dimensional slender bodies can be deformed or shaped into spatially complex curves relatively easily due to their inherent compliance. However, traditional methods of fabricating complex spatial shapes are cumbersome, prone to error…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Soroush Kamrava , Ranajay Ghosh , Yu Yang , Ashkan Vaziri

Origami and kirigami have emerged as potential tools for the design of mechanical metamaterials whose properties such as curvature, Poisson ratio, and existence of metastable states can be tuned using purely geometric criteria. A major…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-31 Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Bin Liu , Arthur A. Evans , Jayson Paulose , Itai Cohen , Vincenzo Vitelli , C. D. Santangelo

The field of rigid origami concerns the folding of stiff, inelastic plates of material along crease lines that act like hinges and form a straight-line planar graph, called the crease pattern of the origami. Crease pattern vertices in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Thomas C. Hull

A single-vertex origami is a piece of paper with straight-line rays called creases emanating from a fold vertex placed in its interior or on its boundary. The Single-Vertex Origami Flattening problem asks whether it is always possible to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-19 Gaiane Panina , Ileana Streinu

This note is an invitation to the theory of geometric functions. The foundation techniques and some of the developments in the field are explained with the mindset that the audience is principally young researchers wishing to understand…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-10-21 K. O. Babalola

The purpose of this paper is to study singular holomorphic foliations of arbitrary codimension defined by logarithmic forms on projective spaces.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Dominique Cerveau , Alcides Lins Neto