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Polynomials in Grassmann space can be used to describe all the internal degrees of freedom of spinors, scalars and vectors, that is their spins and charges. It was shown that K\"ahler spinors, which are polynomials of differential forms,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Mankoc Borstnik , H. B. Nielsen

There are two well-known ways of describing elements of the rotation group SO$(m)$. First, according to the Cartan-Dieudonn\'e theorem, every rotation matrix can be written as an even number of reflections. And second, they can also be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Hennie De Schepper , Alí Guzmán Adán , Frank Sommen

An arrangement of pseudocircles is a finite set of oriented closed Jordan curves each two of which cross each other in exactly two points. To describe the combinatorial structure of arrangements on closed orientable surfaces, in (Linhart,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ronald Ortner

The Schmidt arrangement of an imaginary quadratic number field $K$ is the orbit of the extended real line under $\text{PSL}(2, \mathcal{O}_K)$ as M\"obius transformations on the extended complex plane. If $K\neq\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$, then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 James Rickards , Katherine E. Stange

The maximum principle for hyperbolic inversive distance circle packings on polyhedral surfaces is established,which unifies and generalizes existing maximum principles for various types of circle packings in the literature.As an application…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Yanwen Luo , Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

Penrose's spinor calculus of 4-dimensional Lorentzian geometry is extended to the case of 5-dimensional Lorentzian geometry. Such fruitful ideas in Penrose's spinor calculus as the spin covariant derivative, the curvature spinors or the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , José M. Martín-García

This article explores the geometric algebra of Minkowski spacetime, and its relationship to the geometric algebra of Euclidean 4-space. Both of these geometric algebras are algebraically isomorphic to the 2x2 matrix algebra over Hamilton's…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Garret Sobczyk

We compute explicit formulas for the curvature operators and Poincar\'e polynomials of all compact irreducible symmetric spaces. We can easily derive the Poincar\'e polynomials using quantum numbers, giving a formula that mirrors the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Peter Petersen , James Stanfield

The symmetries described by Pin groups are the result of combining a finite number of discrete reflections in (hyper)planes. The current work shows how an analysis using geometric algebra provides a picture complementary to that of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Martin Roelfs , Steven De Keninck

Invariant integrals of functions and forms over $q$ - deformed Euclidean space and spheres in $N$ dimensions are defined and shown to be positive definite, compatible with the star - structure and to satisfy a cyclic property involving the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Harold Steinacker

We describe a program to prove the Kepler conjecture on sphere packings. We then carry out the first step of this program. Each packing determines a decomposition of space into Delaunay simplices, which are grouped together into finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas C. Hales

In Descartes' five circle problem integer curvatures (inverse radii) are considered. The positive integer curvature triple [c_1, c_2, c_3] (dimensionless), with non-decreasing entries for three given mutually touching circles, leading to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Wolfdieter Lang

We prove that a set of density one satisfies the local-global conjecture for integral Apollonian gaskets. That is, for a fixed integral, primitive Apollonian gasket, almost every (in the sense of density) admissible (passing local…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Jean Bourgain , Alex Kontorovich

We show that all spin groups of non-definite, quinary quadratic forms over a field with characteristic 0 can be represented as 2 by 2 matrices with entries in an associated quaternion algebra. Over local and global fields, we further study…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Arseniy Sheydvasser

A formula for the radii and positions of four circles in the plane for an arbitrary linearly independent circle configuration is found. Among special cases is the recent extended Descartes Theorem on the Descartes configuration and an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-06-07 Jerzy Kocik

An overview of maximally superintegrable classical Hamitonians on spherically symmetric spaces is presented. It turns out that each of these systems can be considered either as an oscillator or as a Kepler-Coulomb Hamiltonian. We show that…

This work investigates dense packings of congruent hard infinitesimally--thin circular arcs in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. It focuses on those denotable as major whose subtended angle $\theta \in \left ( \pi, 2\pi \right ]$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-28 Juan Pedro Ramírez González , Giorgio Cinacchi

In this note, we investigate an infinite one parameter family of circle packings, each with a set of three mutually tangent circles. We use these to generate an infinite set of circle packings with the Apollonian property. That is, every…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Arthur Baragar , Daniel Lautzenheiser

The orbits space of an irreducible representation of a finite group is a variety whose coordinate ring is finitely generated by homogeneous invariant polynomials. Boris Dubrovin showed that the orbits spaces of the reflection groups acquire…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Yassir Dinar , Zainab Al-Maamari

We introduce an orthoplicial Apollonian sphere packing, which is a sphere packing obtained by successively inverting a configuration of 8 spheres with 4-orthplicial tangency graph. We will show that there are such packings in which the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Kei Nakamura