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Let $H^n$ be the hyperbolic n-space with $n\geq 2$. Suppose that $\Gamma<Isom H^n$ is a discrete, torsion free subgroup and $a$ is a point in the domain of discontinuity $\Omega(\Gamma)$. Let $p$ be the projection map from $H^n$ to the…

Given a plane curve $\gamma: S^1\to \mathbb R^2$, we consider the problem of determining the minimal number $I(\gamma)$ of inflections which curves $\mbox{diff}(\gamma)$ may have, where $\mbox{diff}$ runs over the group of diffeomorphisms…

A curve $X$ is said to be of type $(N,\gamma)$ if it is an $N$--sheeted covering of a curve of genus $\gamma$ with at least one totally ramified point. A numerical semigroup $H$ is said to be of type $(N,\gamma)$ if it has $\gamma$ positive…

We investigate the geometry of a random rational lemniscate $\Gamma$, the level set $\{|r(z)|=1\}$ on the Riemann sphere of the modulus of a random rational function $r$. We assign a probability distribution to the space of rational…

Let $S$ be a smooth projective connected surface over an algebraically closed field $k$ and $\Sigma$ the linear system of a very ample divisor $D$ on $S$. Let $d:=\dim(\Sigma)$ be the dimension of $\Sigma$ and $\phi_{\Sigma}: S…

This article presents a new proof of a theorem concerning bounds of the spectrum of the product of unitary operators and a generalization for differentiable curves of this theorem. The proofs involve metric geometric arguments in the group…

The paper is devoted to differential geometric invariants determining a Frenet curve in up to a direct similarity These invariants can be presented by the Euclidean curvatures in terms of an arc lengths of the spherical indicatrices. Then,…

We study closed smooth convex plane curves $\Gamma$ enjoying the following property: a pair of points $x,y$ can traverse $\Gamma$ so that the distances between $x$ and $y$ along the curve and in the ambient plane do not change; such curves…

Let $M$ be a two dimensional complex manifold, $p \in M $ and \Fl a germ of holomorphic foliation of \M at $p$. Let $S\subset M$ be a germ of an irreducible, possibly singular, curve at $p$ in $M$ which is a separatrix for \Fl. We prove…

Let $S$ be a complete flat surface, such as the Euclidean plane. We determine the homeomorphism class of the space of all curves on $S$ which start and end at given points in given directions and whose curvatures are constrained to lie in a…

Let $({X}, \omega)$ be a compact $n$-dimensional K\"ahler orbifold, the stabilizer groups of which are abelian and have rank at most two. Let ${E}$ be an orbi-ample vector bundle of rank $2$ over ${X}$ and let $H$ be a Hermitian metric on…

Let $\mathbb F=\mathbb R$ or $\mathbb C$ and $n\in\b N$. Let $(S_k)_{k\ge0}$ be a time-homogeneous random walk on $GL_n(\b F)$ associated with an $U_n(\b F)$-biinvariant measure $\nu\in M^1(GL_n(\b F))$. We derive a central limit theorem…

A smooth plane curve is said to admit a symmetric determinantal representation if it can be defined by the determinant of a symmetric matrix with entries in linear forms in three variables. We study the local-global principle for the…

This paper studies the class of spherical objects over any Kodaira $n$-cycle of projective lines and provides a parametrization of their isomorphism classes in terms of closed curves on the $n$-punctured torus without self-intersections.…

A graph is said to be symmetric if its automorphism group is transitive on its arcs. Guo et al. (Electronic J. Combin. 18, \#P233, 2011) and Pan et al. (Electronic J. Combin. 20, \#P36, 2013) determined all pentavalent symmetric graphs of…

Let $G$ be the interior domain of a piecewise analytic Jordan curve without cusps. Let $\{p_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$ be the sequence of polynomials that are orthonormal over $G$ with respect to the area measure, with each $p_n$ having leading…

In this article, we prove that an algorithm introduced by the author in a previous work and giving the generic dimension of the moduli space of a germ of curve in the complex plane that is the union of smooth curves, can be used identically…

The main result of this article is that pure orbifold braid groups fit into an exact sequence $1\rightarrow…

The randomly oriented graph $G_{n,p}^{\sigma}$ is an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G_{n,p}$ with a random orientation $\sigma$, which assigns to each edge a direction so that $G_{n,p}^{\sigma}$ becomes a directed graph. Denote by $S_n$…

Let $\gamma: I \rightarrow \mathbb R^n$ be a parametric curve of class $C^{n+1}$, regular of order $n$. The Frenet-Serret apparatus of $\gamma$ at $\gamma(t)$ consists of a frame $e_1(t), \dots , e_n(t)$ and generalized curvature values…