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In this paper, we investigate analytical and geometric properties of certain non-compact boundary-manifolds, namely manifolds of bounded geometry. One result are strong Bochner type vanishing results for the L^2-cohomology of these…

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This article deals with a particular class of shape and topology optimization problems: the optimized design is a region $G$ of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a given domain $\Omega$, which supports a particular type of boundary…

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We define a discrete gauge-invariant Yang-Mills-Higgs action on spacetime simplicial meshes. The formulation is a generalization of classical lattice gauge theory, and we prove consistency of the action in the sense of approximation theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Tore Gunnar Halvorsen , Torquil Macdonald Sørensen

Let $M$ be a compact connected surface with boundary. We prove that the signal condition given by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is necessary and sufficient for a given smooth function $f$ on $\partial M$ (resp. on $M$) to be geodesic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Tiarlos Cruz , Feliciano Vitório

We consider a class of right-angled Coxeter orbifolds, named as simple orbifolds, which are a generalization of simple polytopes. Similarly to manifolds over simple polytopes, the topology and geometry of manifolds over simple orbifolds are…

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In this paper, we study the near-boundary behavior of functions $u\in\mathcal{F}(\Omega)$ in the case where $\Omega$ is strictly pseudoconvex. We also introduce a sufficient condition for belonging to $\mathcal{F}$ in the case where…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Hoang-Son Do , Thai Duong Do

We study the composition question for bounded-error randomized query complexity: Is R(f o g) = Omega(R(f) R(g)) for all Boolean functions f and g? We show that inserting a simple Boolean function h, whose query complexity is only Theta(log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

The classical convergence analysis of quasi-Newton methods assumes that the function and gradients employed at each iteration are exact. In this paper, we consider the case when there are (bounded) errors in both computations and establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Yuchen Xie , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

Orbifolds of two-dimensional quantum field theories have a natural formulation in terms of defects or domain walls. This perspective allows for a rich generalisation of the orbifolding procedure, which we study in detail for the case of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Nils Carqueville , Ingo Runkel

Let M be a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper, we discuss some rigidity theorems of metrics in a same conformal class that fixes the boundary and satisfy certain integral conditions on the the scalar curvatures and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Ezequiel Barbosa , Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio

The computation of the effect of a simple monodromy defect in the case of a sphere with twisted boundary conditions is revisited and streamlined using earlier calculations for a similar system. Compact and explicit expressions are found for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 J. S. Dowker

Singularities play an important role in General Relativity and have been shown to be an inherent feature of most physically reasonable space-times. Despite this, there are many aspects of singularities that are not qualitatively or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Richard A. Barry , Susan M. Scott

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This paper is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. We prove that this…

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Conditioning is crucial in applied science when inference involving time series is involved. Belief calculus is an effective way of handling such inference in the presence of epistemic uncertainty -- unfortunately, different approaches to…

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Using the simple setting of 3D N=1 supergravity, we show how the tensor calculus of supergravity can be extended to manifolds with boundary. We present an extension of the standard F-density formula which yields supersymmetric…

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The problem of membrane topology in the matrix model of M-theory is considered. The matrix regularization procedure, which makes a correspondence between finite-sized matrices and functions defined on a two-dimensional base space, is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 H. Shimada

The Maxwell-BF theory with a single-sided planar boundary is considered in Euclidean four dimensional spacetime. The presence of a boundary breaks the Ward identities which describe the gauge symmetries of the theory, and, using standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Alberto Blasi , Nicola Maggiore

Many fundamental structures of Riemannian geometry have found discrete counterparts for graphs or combinatorial ones for simplicial complexes. These include those discussed in this survey, Hodge theory, Morse theory, the spectral theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Juergen Jost , Dong Zhang

In this paper we use min-max theory to study the existence free boundary minimal hypersurfaces (FBMHs) in compact manifolds with boundary $(M^{n+1}, \partial M, g)$, where $2\leq n\leq 6$. Under the assumption that $g$ is a local maximizer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Yucheng Tu

Simplicial lattices provide an elegant framework for discrete spacetimes. The inherent orthogonality between a simplicial lattice and its circumcentric dual yields an austere representation of spacetime which provides a conceptually simple…

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