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A surgery classification theory is introduced for manifolds of bounded geometry up to quasi-isometry. The Borel conjecture for this theory is proven for flat Euclidean space.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver Attie

We analyze the behavior of Urysohn width of manifolds under a connected sum operation, specifically, bounding widths of summands in terms of widths of the sum and vice versa. Our methods also apply to the universal covers of these spaces,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Aleksandr Berdnikov , Brendan Isley

We study a class of coadjoint orbits of the area preserving diffeomorphism group of the plane consisting of vortex loops, namely closed curves in the plane decorated with one-forms (vorticity densities) allowed to have zeros.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ioana Ciuclea , Cornelia Vizman

In this paper, we introduce a notion of geometric surgery for flag structures, which are geometric structures locally modelled on the three-dimensional flag space under the action of ${\mathrm{PGL}}_3(\mathbb{R})$. Using such surgeries we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Elisha Falbel , Martin Mion-Mouton

We show that $\mathbb{C}^2$ contains pairs of properly embedded, smooth complex curves that are isotopic through homeomorphisms but not diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^2$. The construction is based on realizing corks as branched covers of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Kyle Hayden

In this paper we are dealing with mean curvature flow with surgeries of two-convex hypersurfaces. The main focus is to expand on the discussion in Section $3$ of Mean Curvature Flow with Surgeries of Two-Convex Hypersurfaces by Huisken and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Alexander Majchrowski

We give a finite presentation of the mapping class group of an oriented (possibly bounded) surface of genus greater or equal than 1, considering Dehn twists on a very simple set of curves.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Gervais

We show that the cycle relation between Dehn twists about curves in a circuit detects whether the circuit bounds an embedded disc. This is done by determining the isomorphism type of the group generated by said Dehn twists for various…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Levi Ryffel

The paper is devoted to the study of homotopy properties of stabilizers of smooth functions on oriented surfaces, i.e., groups of diffeomorphisms of surfaces preserving a given function. For some class of smooth functions which is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Bohdan Feshchenko

We study configurations of immersed curves in surfaces and surfaces in 3-manifolds. Among other results, we show that primitive curves have only finitely many configurations which minimize the number of double points. We give examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Peter Scott

A numerical algorithm for mean curvature flow of closed mean convex surfaces with surgery is proposed. The method uses a finite element based mean curvature flow algorithm based on a coupled partial differential equation system which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Balázs Kovács

We realize the Apollonian group associated to an integral Apollonian circle packings, and some of its generalizations, as a group of automorphisms of an algebraic surface. Borrowing some results in the theory of orbit counting, we study the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Igor Dolgachev

Let $F_g$ denote a closed oriented surface of genus $g$. A set of simple closed curves is called a filling of $F_g$ if its complement is a disjoint union of discs. The mapping class group $\text{Mod}(F_g)$ of genus $g$ acts on the set of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Bidyut Sanki

In this paper we obtain an explicit formula for the number of curves in a compact complex surface $X$ (passing through the right number of generic points), that has up to one node and one singularity of codimension $k$, provided the total…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Somnath Basu , Ritwik Mukherjee

We study complex analytic projective connections on surfaces in projective n-spaces in terms of the "second" neighborhood of the surface in the ambient space, and in terms of the osculating behavior of the integral curves. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Oumar Wone

On one hand, we study the class of graphs on surfaces, satisfying tessellation properties, with positive Forman curvature on each edge. Via medial graphs, we provide a new proof for the finiteness of the class, and give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Yohji Akama , Bobo Hua , Yanhui Su , Haohang Zhang

Given a non circular spacial closed curve whose total torsion is an integer multiple of $2\pi$, we construct a germ of a smooth surface that contains it as a hyperbolic principal cycle.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 R. Garcia , L. F. Mello , J. Sotomayor

We embed neighborhood geometries of graphs on surfaces as point-circle configurations. We give examples coming from regular maps on surfaces with maximum number of automorphisms for their genus and survey geometric realization of pentagonal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Milagros Izquierdo , Klara Stokes

We provide the first non-trivial examples of quasi-isometric embeddings between curve complexes. These are induced either by puncturing a closed surface or via orbifold coverings. As a corollary, we give new quasi-isometric embeddings…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Kasra Rafi , Saul Schleimer

A contractible simplicial complex is constructed that parametrizes different ways of representing a fixed one-dimensional homology class in a closed orientable surface by isotopy classes of systems of disjoint oriented simple closed curves.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-03 Allen Hatcher