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This is the first part of a series of articles where we are going to develop theory of valuations on manifolds generalizing the classical theory of continuous valuations on convex subsets of a linear space. In this article we still work…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-16 Semyon Alesker

We study trisections of smooth, compact non-orientable 4-manifolds, and introduce trisections of non-orientable 4-manifolds with boundary. In particular, we prove a non-orientable analogue of a classical theorem of Laudenbach-Po\'enaru. As…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Maggie Miller , Patrick Naylor

We extend the theory of relative trisections of smooth, compact, oriented $4$-manifolds with connected boundary given by Gay and Kirby to include $4$-manifolds with an arbitrary number of boundary components. Additionally, we provide…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Nickolas A. Castro

A nonsmooth fold is where an equilibrium or limit cycle of a nonsmooth dynamical system hits a switching manifold and collides and annihilates with another solution of the same type. We show that beyond the bifurcation the leading-order…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-24 D. J. W. Simpson

We define an invariant, which we call surface-complexity, of closed 3-manifolds by means of Dehn surfaces. The surface-complexity of a manifold is a natural number measuring how much the manifold is complicated. We prove that it fulfils…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Gennaro Amendola

Topologies on algebraic and equational theories are used to define germ determined, near-point determined, and point determined rings of smooth functions, without requiring them to be finitely generated. It is proved, that any commutative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Dennis Borisov

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Alexandr Prishlyak

Spectral subspaces of a linear dynamical system identify a large class of invariant structures that highlight/isolate the dynamics associated to select subsets of the spectrum. The corresponding notion for nonlinear systems is that of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Gergely Buza

A result is given to find points where a real valued function on the plane is not smooth. Provided this function is induced by a smooth mapping from three dimensions to the plane, from a function on surfaces in three dimensions. This has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-12 Burzin Bhavnagri

We prove a compactness theorem for holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectizations that have embedded projections to the underlying 3-manifold. It strengthens the cylindrical case of the SFT compactness theorem by using intersection…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Chris Wendl

We prove that every reduced Stein space admits a holomorphic function without critical points. Furthermore, any closed discrete subset of such a space is the critical locus of a holomorphic function. We also show that for every complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Franc Forstneric

We construct the first examples of non-smoothable self-homeomorphisms of smooth $4$-manifolds with boundary that fix the boundary and act trivially on homology. As a corollary, we construct self-diffeomorphisms of $4$-manifolds with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Daniel Galvin , Roberto Ladu

In this article, we construct countably many mutually non-isotopic diffeomorphisms of some closed non simply-connected 4-manifolds that are homotopic to but not isotopic to the identity, by surgery along $\Theta$-graphs. As corollaries of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Tadayuki Watanabe

We determine the cd-index of the induced subdivision arising from a manifold arrangement. This generalizes earlier results in several directions: (i) One can work with manifolds other than the n-sphere and n-torus, (ii) the induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Richard Ehrenborg , Margaret Readdy

We introduce multi-split continuous functions between topological spaces, a weaker form of continuity that generalizes split continuity while being stable under compositions. We will define the associated star multifunction and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Finn Michler , Argha Ghosh

Inspired by the Taubes-Wu construction of $\mathcal{C}^{1,\alpha}$ two-valued harmonic functions by the use of symmetry, we construct minimal surfaces with stratified branching sets as graphs of $\mathcal{C}^{1,\alpha}$ two-valued…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Federico Franceschini , Rafe Mazzeo , Paul Minter

Deformational structures, in many aspects generalizing standard elasticity theory, are investigated in abstract form. Within free deformational structures we define algebra of deformations, classify them by its special properties, define…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 Sergey S. Kokarev

We describe an algorithm that takes as input an open book decomposition of a closed oriented 4-manifold and outputs an explicit trisection diagram of that 4-manifold. Moreover, a slight variation of this algorithm also works for open books…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marc Kegel , Felix Schmäschke

We introduce manifold-based basis functions for isogeometric analysis of surfaces with arbitrary smoothness, prescribed $C^0$ continuous creases and boundaries. The utility of the manifold-based surface construction techniques in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Qiaoling Zhang , Fehmi Cirak

Recently Gay and Kirby described a new decomposition of smooth closed $4$-manifolds called a trisection. This paper generalises Heegaard splittings of $3$-manifolds and trisections of $4$-manifolds to all dimensions, using triangulations as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-27 J. Hyam Rubinstein , Stephan Tillmann