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We prove that the non-separating curve complex of every surface of finite type and genus at least three admits an exhaustion by finite rigid sets.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Rodrigo de Pool

A result due in its various parts to Hendrickson, Connelly, and Jackson and Jord\'an, provides a purely combinatorial characterisation of global rigidity for generic bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The analogous conditions are known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Bill Jackson , Thomas McCourt , Anthony Nixon

It is shown that a simple graph which is embeddable in the real projective plane is minimally 3-rigid if and only if it is (3,6)-tight. Moreover the topologically uncontractible embedded graphs of this type are constructible from one of 8…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Eleftherios Kastis , Stephen Power

Following Matveev, a k-normal surface in a triangulated 3-manifold is a generalization of both normal and (octagonal) almost normal surfaces. Using spines, complexity, and Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds, we prove the following…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-13 Evgeny Fominykh , Bruno Martelli

The main result of the paper is a boundedness for $n$-complements on algebraic surfaces. In addition, applications of this theorem to a classification of log Del Pezzo surfaces and of birational contractions for 3-folds are formulated.

alg-geom · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. V. Shokurov

A triangulation of a surface is irreducible if there is no edge whose contraction produces another triangulation of the surface. In this work we propose an algorithm that constructs the set of irreducible triangulations of any surface with…

We prove that any compact surface with constant positive curvature and conical singularities can be decomposed into irreducible components of standard shape, glued along geodesic arcs connecting conical singularities. This is a spherical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Guillaume Tahar

We study non-compact surfaces obtained by gluing strips $\mathbb{R}\times(-1,1)$ with at most countably many boundary intervals along some these intervals. Every such strip possesses a foliation by parallel lines, which gives a foliation on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Sergiy Maksymenko , Eugene Polulyakh

Suppose $K$ is a knot in a closed 3-manifold $M$ such that $\bar{M-N(K)}$ is irreducible. We show that for any positive integer $b$ there exists a triangulation of $\bar{M-N(K)}$ such that any weakly incompressible bridge surface for $K$ of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Robin T. Wilson

A bar framework determined by a finite graph $G$ and configuration $\bf p$ in $d$ space is universally rigid if it is rigid in any ${\mathbb R}^D \supset {\mathbb R}^d$. We provide a characterization of universally rigidity for any graph…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Robert Connelly , Steven Gortler

We give a short proof of the contractibility of the space of geodesic triangulations with fixed combinatorial type of a convex polygon in the Euclidean plane. Moreover, for any $n>0$, we show that there exists a space of geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Yanwen Luo

We provide an alternative, simpler proof of the existence of thick triangulations for noncompact $\mathcal{C}^1$ manifolds. Moreover, this proof is simpler than the original one given in \cite{pe}, since it mainly uses tools of elementary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-12 Emil Saucan , Meir Katchalski

We compute the generalized triangle inequalities explicitly for all rank 3 symmetric spaces. We find that for Sp(6) the corresponding polyhedral cone has 102 facets and 51 edges.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shrawan Kumar , Bernhard Leeb , John J. Millson

We study the infinitesimal rigidity of equivariant minimal maps from the universal cover of a smooth oriented surface (possibly non-compact) into a Riemannian symmetric space, focusing on representations arising from cyclic harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Qiongling Li , Junming Zhang

We show that any noncompact oriented surface is homeomorphic to the leaf of a minimal foliation of a closed $3$-manifold. These foliations are (or are covered by) suspensions of continuous minimal actions of surface groups on the circle.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Paulo Gusmão , Carlos Meniño Cotón

Consider an orientable compact surface in three dimensional Euclidean space with minimum total absolute curvature. If the Gaussian curvature changes sign to finite order and satisfies a nondegeneracy condition along closed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

We show that every open Riemann surface can be obtained by glueing together a countable collection of equilateral triangles, in such a way that every vertex belongs to finitely many triangles. Equivalently, it is a _Belyi surface_: There…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Christopher J. Bishop , Lasse Rempe

We prove that any length metric space homeomorphic to a surface may be decomposed into non-overlapping convex triangles of arbitrarily small diameter. This generalizes a previous result of Alexandrov--Zalgaller for surfaces of bounded…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Paul Creutz , Matthew Romney

In this paper we have proved several approximation theorems for the family of minimal surfaces in R^3 that imply, among other things, that complete minimal surfaces are dense in the space of all minimal surfaces endowed with the topology of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Alarcon , L. Ferrer , F. Martin

An ideal triangulation of a singular flat surface is a geodesic triangulation such that its vertex set is equal to the set of singular points of the surface. Using the fact that each pair of points in a surface has a finite number of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-01 İsmail Sağlam