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We introduce a categorical formalism for rewriting surface-embedded graphs. Such graphs can represent string diagrams in a non-symmetric setting where we guarantee that the wires do not intersect each other. The main technical novelty is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Malin Altenmüller , Ross Duncan

For singular corank 1 surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ we introduce a distinguished normal vector called the axial vector. Using this vector and the curvature parabola we define a new type of curvature called the axial curvature, which generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Raúl Oset Sinha , Kentaro Saji

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

In this note we study several aspects of coisotropic submanifolds of a contact manifold. In particular we give a structure theorem for the singularity of the characteristic foliation of a coisotropic submanifold. Moreover we establish the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-11 Yang Huang

In this study, we define some new types of ruled surfaces called slant ruled surfaces. We give some characterizations for a regular ruled surface to be a slant ruled surface in Euclidean 3- space. We show that if the slant ruled surface is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Mehmet Önder

In this paper we clarify the relationship between ribbon surfaces of Legendrian graphs and quasipositive diagrams by using certain fence diagrams. As an application, we give an alternative proof of a theorem concerning a relationship…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sebastian Baader , Masaharu Ishikawa

In three-dimensional computational topology, the theory of normal surfaces is a tool of great theoretical and practical significance. Although this theory typically leads to exponential time algorithms, very little is known about how these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Benjamin A. Burton , João Paixão , Jonathan Spreer

We study rotational surfaces in Euclidean 3-space whose Gauss curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. By means of a phase plane analysis and under mild assumptions on the prescribed function, we generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Antonio Bueno , Irene Ortiz

In this paper, we introduce the discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary in an axiomatic approach, which ensures that the Poincar\'{e} dual of an ideally triangulated surface with boundary has a good geometric structure.Then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

In this paper we introduce the notion of contact angle for an immersed surface in three dimensional sphere. We deduce formulas for the Laplacian and for the Gaussian curvature, and we classify minimal surfaces in $S^3$ with constant contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes Jose Antonio Verderesi

Since the 1980s, it has been known that essential surfaces in alternating link complements can be isotoped to be transverse to the link diagram almost everywhere, with the exception of some well-understood intersections, and described…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Jessica S. Purcell , Anastasiia Tsvietkova

We study surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures in Euclidean and simply isotropic geometries and characterize rotational, channel, ruled, helical, and translational surfaces of this kind under some technical restrictions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Khusrav Yorov , Mikhail Skopenkov , Helmut Pottmann

We study knots in $\mathbb{S}^3$ obtained by the intersection of a minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a small 3-sphere centered at a branch point. We construct examples of new minimal knots. In particular we show the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Soret , Marina Ville

An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian link $L$ in the spherical cotangent bundle $ST^*M$ of a surface $M$ is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to $M$ along two discs away from the image in $M$ of the projection of the link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-21 V. Chernov , R. Sadykov

We prove some classification results for tight contact structure in the 3-space, -ball and -sphere that are invariant with respect to some arbitrary involution, that is conjugated to the standard rotation around the x-axis. Unlike the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Mirko Torresani

Monodromy in analytic families of smooth complex surfaces yields groups of isotopy classes of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms for each family member X. For all deformation classes of minimal elliptic surfaces with p_g>q=0, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Lönne

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

We use normal sections to relate the curvature locus of regular (resp. singular corank 1) 3-manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^6$ (resp. $\mathbb R^5$) with regular (resp. singular corank 1) surfaces in $\mathbb R^5$ (resp. $\mathbb R^4$). For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Pedro Benedini Riul , Raúl Oset Sinha

We classify rotational surfaces in a normed 3-space with rotationally symmetric norm whose principal curvatures satisfy a linear relation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Makoto Sakaki , Kakeru Yanase

We derive basic differential geometric formulae for surfaces in hyperbolic space represented as envelopes of horospheres. The dual notion of parallel hypersurfaces is also studied. The representation is applied to prove existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Charles L. Epstein