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In the present paper we describe topological obstructions to embedding of a (complex) matrix algebra bundle into a trivial one under some additional arithmetic condition on their dimensions. We explain a relation between this problem and…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2010-08-31 A. V. Ershov

There are two main approaches to building locally flat embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds: direct methods which geometrically manipulate a given map of a surface, and more indirect methods using surgery theory. Both rely on Freedman-Quinn's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Arunima Ray

We construct a (smooth, projective) surface over the field of rational numbers, which is a counterexample to the Hasse principle not accounted for by the Manin obstruction. The construction relies on the classical 4-descent on elliptic…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexei Skorobogatov

We classify constant mean curvature surfaces invariant by a 1-parameter group of isometries in the Berger spheres and in the special linear group Sl(2, R). In particular, all constant mean curvature spheres in those spaces are described…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-30 Francisco Torralbo

The aim of this paper is to give a proof of the restriction theorems for principal bundles with a reductive algebraic group as structure group in arbitrary characteristic. Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group over any field $k=\bar{k}$,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Sudarshan Gurjar

A fundamental theorem of Laman characterises when a bar-joint framework realised generically in the Euclidean plane admits a non-trivial continuous deformation of its vertices. This has recently been extended in two ways. Firstly to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze

We prove new adjunction inequalities for embedded surfaces in four-manifolds with non-negative self-intersection number by using the Donaldson invariants. These formulas are completely analogous to the ones obtained by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vicente Muñoz

We study smooth bundles over surfaces with highly connected almost parallelizable fiber $M$ of even dimension, providing necessary conditions for a manifold to be bordant to the total space of such a bundle and showing that, in most cases,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Manuel Krannich , Jens Reinhold

In this paper, we consider an obstruction-theoretical construction of characteristic classes of fiber bundles by simplicial method. We can get a certain obstruction class for a deformation of $C_\infty$-algebra models of fibers and a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Takahiro Matsuyuki

Following Ghomi and Tabachnikov we study topological obstructions to totally skew embeddings of a smooth manifold M in Euclidean spaces. This problem is naturally related to the question of estimating the geometric dimension of the stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Djordje Baralic , Branislav Prvulovic , Gordana Stojanovic , Sinisa Vrecica , Rade Zivaljevic

We define a Chern--Simons invariant of connections on stably trivial vector bundles over smooth manifolds, taking values in $3$-forms modulo closed forms with integral cohomology class. We show an additivity property of this invariant for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Sergiu Moroianu

We discuss an obstruction to a knot being smoothly slice that comes from minimum-genus bounds on smoothly embedded surfaces in definite 4-manifolds. As an example, we provide an alternate proof of the fact that the (2,1)-cable of the figure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Paolo Aceto , Nickolas A. Castro , Maggie Miller , JungHwan Park , András Stipsicz

After the surface theory of M\"obius geometry, this study concerns a pair of conformally immersed surfaces in $n$-sphere. Two new invariants $\theta$ and $\rho$ associated with them are introduced as well as the notion of touch and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiang Ma

In this paper, we present a new approach of creating PTAS to the TSP problems by defining a bounded-curvature surface embedded spaces. Using this definition we prove: - A bounded-curvature surface embedded spaces TSP admits to a PTAS. -…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-30 David Zisselman

Inspired by Le Calvez' theory of transverse foliations for dynamical systems of surfaces, we introduce a dynamical invariant, denoted by N, for Hamiltonians of any surface other than the sphere. When the surface is the plane or is closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Vincent Humilière , Frédéric Le Roux , Sobhan Seyfaddini

In this paper, we extend our investigation of the class of biconservative surfaces with non-constant mean curvature in 4-dimensional space forms $N^4(\epsilon)$. Specifically, we focus on biconservative surfaces with non-parallel normalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Ştefan Andronic , Stefano Montaldo , Cezar Oniciuc , Antonio Sanna

Consider a smooth $4$-manifold $X$ and a diffeomorphism $f : X \to X$. We give an obstruction in the form of an adjunction inequality for an embedded surface in $X$ to be isotopic to its image under $f$. It follows that the minimal genus of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-14 David Baraglia

We give two generalizations of the Clifford theorem to algebraic surfaces. As an application, we obtain some bounds for the number of moduli of surfaces of general type.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Hao Sun

We present new smoothing techniques for topologically embedded surfaces in smooth 4-manifolds, which give topological isotopy to a smooth surface. As applications, we prove "topological = smooth" results in dimension 4 for certain disks and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jae Choon Cha , Byeorhi Kim

We show the existence of hyperbolic 4-manifolds with vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants, addressing a conjecture of Claude LeBrun. This is achieved by showing, using results in geometric and arithmetic group theory, that certain hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Ian Agol , Francesco Lin