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A Kokotsakis polyhedron with quadrangular base is a neighborhood of a quadrilateral in a quad surface. Generically, a Kokotsakis polyhedron is rigid. Up to now, several flexible classes were known, but a complete classification was missing.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Ivan Izmestiev

The problem of detecting auxetic behavior, originating in materials science and mathematical crystallography, refers to the property of a flexible periodic bar-and-joint framework to widen, rather than shrink, when stretched in some…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Ciprian S. Borcea , Ileana Streinu

We study the use of polyhedral discretizations for the solution of heat diffusion and elastodynamic problems in computer graphics. Polyhedral meshes are more natural for certain applications than pure triangular or quadrilateral meshes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junyu Liu , Daniele Panozzo , Mario Botsch , Teseo Schneider

We study the geometry of cuspidal $S_k$ singularities in $\mathbb R^3$ obtained by folding generically a cuspidal edge. In particular we study the geometry of the cuspidal cross-cap $M$, i.e. the cuspidal $S_0$ singularity. We study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Raúl Oset Sinha , Kentaro Saji

We introduce new methods for phylogenetic tree quartet construction by using machine learning to optimize the power of phylogenetic invariants. Phylogenetic invariants are polynomials in the joint probabilities which vanish under a model of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Nicholas Eriksson , Yuan Yao

The paper is devoted to a categorical study of the category of probabilistic metric spaces. The study is based on an isomorphic description of the category of probabilistic metric spaces. The isomorphic description was obtained in [3] and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Eva Colebunders , Robert Lowen

We propose a novel type of planar-to-spatial deployable structures that we call elastic geodesic grids. Our approach aims at the approximation of freeform surfaces with spatial grids of bent lamellas which can be deployed from a planar…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Stefan Pillwein , Kurt Leimer , Michael Birsak , Przemyslaw Musialski

We interpret realizations of a graph on the sphere up to rotations as elements of a moduli space of curves of genus zero. We focus on those graphs that admit an assignment of edge lengths on the sphere resulting in a flexible object. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Matteo Gallet , Georg Grasegger , Jan Legerský , Josef Schicho

In this paper we study an emerging class of neural networks based on the morphological operators of dilation and erosion. We explore these networks mathematically from a tropical geometry perspective as well as mathematical morphology. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Petros Maragos

This paper is devoted to the study of the $m$-point homogeneity property for the vertex sets of polytopes in Euclidean spaces. In particular, we present the classifications of $2$-point and $3$-point homogeneous polyhedra in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

We give the quasi--Euclidean classification of the maximal (with respect to the $f$--vector) alcoved polyhedra. The $f$--vector of these maximal convex bodies is $(20,30,12)$, so they are simple dodecahedra. We find eight quasi--Euclidean…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 M. J. de la Puente

A general model for geometric structures on differentiable manifolds is obtained by deforming infinitesimal symmetries. Specifically, this model consists of a Lie algebroid, equipped with an affine connection compatible with the Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Anthony D. Blaom

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes

We construct five types of polyhedra by generalizing the description of Bricard octahedra and applying the generalizations to polyhedral suspensions. The resulting polyhedra are flexible, are of genus 0, exhibit self-intersections, have…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-13 Gerald D. Nelson

Firmly nonexpansive mappings play an important role in metric fixed point theory and optimization due to their correspondence with maximal monotone operators. In this paper we do a thorough study of fixed point theory and the asymptotic…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-26 David Ariza-Ruiz , Laurentiu Leustean , Genaro Lopez-Acedo

Starting with the unsolved "D\"urer's problem" of edge-unfolding a convex polyhedron to a net, we specialize and generalize (a) the types of cuts permitted, and (b) the polyhedra shapes, to highlight both advances established and which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Joseph O'Rourke

We give a decomposition of the suspension of a polyhedral join in terms of the polyhedral smash product of the suspension of the family of pairs, and study some cases in which the formula can be desuspended, particularly for polyhedral…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Andrés Carnero Bravo

Networks are mathematical structures that are universally used to describe a large variety of complex systems such as the brain or the Internet. Characterizing the geometrical properties of these networks has become increasingly relevant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Zhihao Wu , Giulia Menichetti , Christoph Rahmede , Ginestra Bianconi

We give a combinatorial characterization of generic minimally rigid reflection frameworks. The main new idea is to study a pair of direction networks on the same graph such that one admits faithful realizations and the other has only…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

Data describing the three-dimensional structure of physical networks is increasingly available, leading to a surge of interest in network science to explore the relationship between the shape and connectivity of physical networks. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-20 Luka Blagojević , Márton Pósfai