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The fixed point index of topological fixed point theory is a well studied integer-valued algebraic invariant of a mapping which can be characterized by a small set of axioms. The coincidence index is an extension of the concept to…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-09-27 P. Christopher Staecker

It is natural to ask how many isotopy classes of embedded essential surfaces lie in a given 3-manifold. The first bounds on the number of such surfaces were exponential, using normal surfaces. More recently, by restricting to alternating…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Jessica S. Purcell , Anastasiia Tsvietkova

Wintgen ideal submanifolds in space forms are those ones attaining equality pointwise in the so-called DDVV inequality which relates the scalar curvature, the mean curvature and the scalar normal curvature. They are Moebius invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Xiang Ma , Zhenxiao Xie

In this paper we explore the topological properties of self-replicating, 3-dimensional manifolds, which are modeled by idempotents in the (2+1)-cobordism category. We give a classification theorem for all such idempotents. Additionally, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Ryan Blair , Ricky Lee

We introduce a simple combinatorial way, which we call a rectangular diagram of a surface, to represent a surface in the three-sphere. It has a particularly nice relation to the standard contact structure on $\mathbb S^3$ and to rectangular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Ivan Dynnikov , Maxim Prasolov

Geometric torsions are torsions of acyclic complexes of vector spaces which consist of differentials of geometric quantities assigned to the elements of a manifold triangulation. We use geometric torsions to construct invariants for a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-13 I. G. Korepanov

A normal pseudomanifold is a pseudomanifold in which the links of simplices are also pseudomanifolds. So, a normal 2-pseudomanifold triangulates a connected closed 2-manifold. But, normal $d$-pseudomanifolds form a broader class than…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-18 Basudeb Datta , Nandini Nilakantan

This paper gives a concept of an integral operator defined on a manifold $M$ consisting of triple of points in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ making up a regular $3$-simplex with the origin. The boundedness of such operator is investigated. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-03 A. Martina Neuman

We have been studying the index theory for some special infinite-dimensional manifolds with a "proper cocompact" actions of the loop group LT of the circle T, from the viewpoint of the noncommutative geometry. In this paper, we will…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Doman Takata

In the prequel of this paper, Kauffman and Ogasa introduced new topological quantum invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds with boundary where the boundary is a disjoint union of two identical surfaces. The invariants are constructed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Heather A. Dye , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

A model of simplicial quantum gravity in three dimensions(3D) was investigated numerically based on the technique of dynamical triangulation (DT). We are concerned with the genus of surfaces appearing on boundaries (i.e., sections) of a 3D…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 H. S. Egawa , N. Tsuda

The logarithm of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant counts embeddings of connected trivalent graphs in an oriented rational homology sphere, using integrals on configuration spaces of points in the given manifold. It is a universal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Yohan Mandin-Hublé

We investigate topological descriptors for 3D surface analysis, i.e. the classification of surfaces according to their geometric fine structure. On a dataset of high-resolution 3D surface reconstructions we compute persistence diagrams for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Bartosz Zieliński , Mateusz Juda , Markus Seidl

We investigate slicings of combinatorial manifolds as properly embedded co-dimension 1 submanifolds. A focus is given to dimension 3 where slicings are normal surfaces. In the case of 2-neighborly 3-manifolds and quadrangulated slicings, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Jonathan Spreer

Matrix models with continuous symmetry are powerful tools for studying quantum gravity and holography. Tensor models have also found applications in holographic quantum gravity. Matrix models with discrete permutation symmetry have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 George Barnes , Adrian Padellaro , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

In this paper we define a new state sum based on the regions defined by tangles on a surface which is an oriented closed surface with a finite number of open holes drilled. From this state sum we obtain an invariant of regular isotopy for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Peter M. Johnson , Sóstenes Lins

A degree-regular triangulation is one in which each vertex has identical degree. Our main result is that any such triangulation of a (possibly non-compact) surface $S$ is geometric, that is, it is combinatorially equivalent to a geodesic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Basudeb Datta , Subhojoy Gupta

The Turaev-Viro invariants are scalar topological invariants of compact, orientable 3-manifolds. We give a quantum algorithm for additively approximating Turaev-Viro invariants of a manifold presented by a Heegaard splitting. The algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Gorjan Alagic , Stephen P. Jordan , Robert Koenig , Ben W. Reichardt

One of the main challenges in 3d-3d correspondence is that no existent approach offers a complete description of 3d $N=2$ SCFT $T[M_3]$ --- or, rather, a "collection of SCFTs" as we refer to it in the paper --- for all types of 3-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 Sungbong Chun , Sergei Gukov , Sunghyuk Park , Nikita Sopenko