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In this paper we try to find examples of integrable natural Hamiltonian systems on the sphere $S^2$ with the symmetries of each Platonic polyhedra. Although some of these systems are known, their expression is extremely complicated; we try…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Giovanni Rastelli

We study the concepts of the $\ell_p$-Vietoris-Rips simplicial set and the $\ell_p$-Vietoris-Rips complex of a metric space, where $1\leq p \leq \infty.$ This theory unifies two established theories: for $p=\infty,$ this is the classical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Sergei O. Ivanov , Xiaomeng Xu

Using the orthogonal connectedness, we introduce the notion of orthogonal decomposability of convex polytopes and study it in the case of Platonic and Archimedean solids. While doing so, we also encounter polytopes which are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Julia Q. Du , Xuemei He , Xiaotian Song , Daniela Stiller , Liping Yuan , Tudor Zamfirescu

We show that a connected finite topological space with $12$ or less points has a weak homotopy type of a wedge of spheres. In other words, we show that the order complex of a connected finite poset with $12$ or less points has a homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Kango Matsushima , Shuichi Tsukuda

A rigidity theory is developed for bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ whose vertices are constrained to lie on concentric $d$-spheres with independently variable radii. In particular, combinatorial characterisations are established…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Walter Whiteley

We classify the convex polytopes whose symmetry groups have two orbits on the flags. These exist only in two or three dimensions, and the only ones whose combinatorial automorphism group is also two-orbit are the cuboctahedron, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Nicholas Matteo

This article sketches the proofs of two theorems about sphere packings in Euclidean 3-space. The first is K. Bezdek's strong dodecahedral conjecture: the surface area of every bounded Voronoi cell in a packing of balls of radius 1 is at…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Thomas C. Hales

In this paper, we show how regular convex 4-polytopes - the analogues of the Platonic solids in four dimensions - can be constructed from three-dimensional considerations concerning the Platonic solids alone. Via the Cartan-Dieudonne…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Pierre-Philippe Dechant

The icosidodecahedron has 30 vertices, one at the center of each edge of a regular icosahedron -- or equivalently, one at the center of each edge of a regular dodecahedron. It is a beautiful, highly symmetrical shape. But it is just a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 John C. Baez

We consider embeddings of a finite complex in a sphere. We give a homotopy theoretic classification of such embeddings in a wide range.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John R. Klein

For a metric space $(X, d)$ and a scale parameter $r \geq 0$, the Vietoris-Rips complex $\mathcal{VR}(X;r)$ is a simplicial complex on vertex set $X$, where a finite set $\sigma \subseteq X$ is a simplex if and only if diameter of $\sigma$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samir Shukla

In 3-dimensional Euclidean space there exist two exceptional polyhedra, the rhombic dodecahedron and the rhombic triacontahedron, the only known polytopes (besides polygons) that are edge-transitive without being vertex-transitive. We show…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Frank Göring , Martin Winter

We carry out the harmonic analysis on four Platonic spherical three-manifolds with different topologies. Starting out from the homotopies (Everitt 2004), we convert them into deck operations, acting on the simply connected three-sphere as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Peter Kramer

A hex sphere is a singular Euclidean sphere with four cones points whose cone angles are (integer) multiples of 2*pi/3 but less than 2*pi. Given a hex sphere M, we consider its Voronoi decomposition centered at the two cone points with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Aldo-Hilario Cruz-Cota

The homotopy type of the complement of a complex coordinate subspace arrangement is studied by fathoming out the connection between its topological and combinatorial structures. A family of arrangements for which the complement is homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jelena Grbic , Stephen Theriault

In this article, we define a family of regular bipartite graphs and show that the homotopy type of the independence complexes of this family is the wedge sum of spheres of certain dimensions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Nandini Nilakantan , Samir Shukla

We show that the nerve complex of n arcs in the circle is homotopy equivalent to either a point, an odd-dimensional sphere, or a wedge sum of spheres of the same even dimension. Moreover this homotopy type can be computed in time O(n log…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Michal Adamaszek , Henry Adams , Florian Frick , Chris Peterson , Corrine Previte-Johnson

The shadow of an abstract simplicial complex $K$ with vertices in $\mathbb{R}^N$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$ defined as the union of the convex hulls of simplices of $K$. The Vietoris--Rips complex of a metric space $(S,d)$ at scale…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Rafal Komendarczyk , Sushovan Majhi , Atish Mitra

We give a method to determine relative periodic orbits in point vortex systems: it consists mainly into perform a symplectic reduction on a fixed point submanifold in order to obtain a two-dimensional reduced phase space. The method is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Frederic Laurent-Polz

The spaces of flattenings of a simplicial sphere played a key role in the study of existence and uniqueness of differentiable structures on a simplicial sphere. In this paper, we will establish that the spaces of flattenings of some…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Olakunle S Abawonse