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We discuss topological versions of the closed graph theorem, where continuity is inferred from near continuity in tandem with suitable conditions on source or target spaces. We seek internal characterizations of spaces satisfying a closed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Dominikus Noll

We introduce certain homology and cohomology subgroups for any almost complex structure and study their pureness, fullness and duality properties. Motivated by a question of Donaldson, we use these groups to relate J-tamed symplectic cones…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Tian-Jun Li , Weiyi Zhang

We present new examples of topologically convex edge-ununfoldable polyhedra, i.e., polyhedra that are combinatorially equivalent to convex polyhedra, yet cannot be cut along their edges and unfolded into one planar piece without overlap.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , David Eppstein

We show that only finitely many links in a closed 3-manifold share the same complement, up to twists along discs and annuli. Using the same techniques, we prove that by adding 2-handles on the same link we get only finitely many smooth…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Bruno Martelli

In this paper we show that there exist simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds which contain infinitely many knotted lagrangian tori, i.e. lagrangian embeddings of tori that are homotopic but not isotopic. Moreover, the homology class they…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefano Vidussi

In this article we introduce the topological study of codimension-1 foliations which admit contact or symplectic structures on the leaves. A parametric existence h-principle for foliated contact structures is provided for any cooriented…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Roger Casals , Alvaro del Pino , Francisco Presas

A compact oriented 4-manifold is defined to be of ``superconformal simple type'' if certain polynomials in the basic classes (constructed using the Seiberg-Witten invariants) vanish identically. We show that all known 4-manifolds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marcos Marino , Gregory Moore , Grigor Peradze

We construct infinitely many smooth oriented 4-manifolds containing pairs of homotopic, smoothly embedded 2-spheres that are not topologically isotopic, but that are equivalent by an ambient diffeomorphism inducing the identity on homology.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Hannah R. Schwartz

We introduce the concept of pseudo-trisections of smooth oriented compact 4-manifolds with boundary. The main feature of pseudo-trisections is that they have lower complexity than relative trisections for given 4-manifolds. We prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Shintaro Fushida-Hardy

We prove that the homology of the mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces stabilizes with the genus of the surface. Combining our result with recent work of Madsen and Weiss, we obtain that the classifying space of the stable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Nathalie Wahl

We continue our study [Ou4] of f-biharmonic maps and f-biharmonic submanifolds by exploring the applications of f-biharmonic maps and the relationships among biharmonicity, f-biharmonicity and conformality of maps between Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Ye-Lin Ou

Given an injective amalgam at the level of fundamental groups and a specific 3-manifold, is there a corresponding geometric-topological decomposition of a given 4-manifold, in a stable sense? We find an algebraic-topological splitting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Qayum Khan , Gerrit Smith

The homological scaffold leverages persistent homology to construct a topologically sound summary of a weighted network. However, its crucial dependency on the choice of representative cycles hinders the ability to trace back global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Marco Guerra , Alessandro De Gregorio , Ulderico Fugacci , Giovanni Petri , Francesco Vaccarino

We prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a smooth surface in a 4-manifold X to be pseudoholomorphic with respect to some almost complex structure on X. This provides a systematic approach to the construction of pseudoholomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Bohr

For every $g\ge 2$ and $n\ge4$, we provide an $n-$manifold $M$ and a continuous $2-$sided map $f\colon S\longrightarrow M$, where $S$ is a closed genus $g$ surface, such that no simple loop is contained in $\text{ker}(\,f_*\,)$. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Gianluca Faraco

In this paper, we provide two different resolutions of structural sheaves of projectivized tangent bundles of smooth complete intersections. These resolutions allow in particular to obtain convenient (and completely explicit) descriptions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Antoine Etesse

Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

The automorphisms of all 4-dimensional, real Lie Algebras are presented in a comprehensive way. Their action on the space of $4\times 4$, real, symmetric and positive definite, matrices, defines equivalence classes which are used for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Christodoulakis , G. O. Papadopoulos , A. Dimakis

In this paper, we study the compactness of a boundary value problem for hyperkaehler 4-manifolds. We show that under certain topological conditions and the positive mean curvature condition on the boundary, a sequence of hyperkaehler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Hongyi Liu

This work investigates topological chaos for homeomorphisms of the open annulus, introducing a new set of sufficient conditions based on points with distinct rotation numbers and their topological relation to invariant continua. These…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Alejandro Passeggi , Fabio Armando Tal