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We provide three 3-dimensional characterizations of the Z-slice genus of a knot, the minimal genus of a locally-flat surface in 4-space cobounding the knot whose complement has cyclic fundamental group: in terms of balanced algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Peter Feller , Lukas Lewark

Polymers can be modeled as open polygonal paths and their closure generates knots. Knotted proteins detection is currently achieved via high-throughput methods based on a common framework insensitive to the handedness of knots. Here we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-04-19 Federico Comoglio , Maurizio Rinaldi

Let $LHT$ be a left handed trefoil knot and $K$ be any knot. We define $M_n(K)$ to be the homology $3$-sphere which is represented by a simple link of $LHT$ and $LHT \sharp K$ with framings $0$ and $n$ respectively. Starting with this link,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Masatsuna Tsuchiya

We construct in this article the semi-analytic Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), called {\em singular layer PINNs} (or {\em sl-PINNs}), that are suitable to predict the stiff solutions of plane-parallel flows at a small viscosity.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Teng-Yuan Chang , Gung-Min Gie , Youngjoon Hong , Chang-Yeol Jung

Several techniques have been proposed over the years for automatic hypocenter localization. While those techniques have pros and cons that trade-off computational efficiency and the susceptibility of getting trapped in local minima, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Muhammad Izzatullah , Isa Eren Yildirim , Umair Bin Waheed , Tariq Alkhalifah

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have demonstrated promise in solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations. Despite recent progress on expanding the class of problems that can be tackled by PINNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Francisco Sahli Costabal , Simone Pezzuto , Paris Perdikaris

We introduce a Lattice-Boltzmann-driven kinetic physics-informed neural network (K-PINN) for predictive modeling of droplet dynamics on structured surfaces, in which the discrete Boltzmann-BGK equation is incorporated into the learning…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ganesh Sahadeo Meshram , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti , Suman Chakraborty

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) show significant potential for solving inverse problems, especially when observations are limited and sparse, provided that the relevant physical equations are known. We use PINNs to estimate smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Moises Sierpe , Ernesto Castillo , Hernan Mella , Felipe Galarce

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a new family of numerical methods, based on deep learning, for modeling boundary value problems. They offer an advantage over traditional numerical methods for high-dimensional, parametric, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Michel Nohra , Steven Dufour

Caffarelli-Hardt-Simon used the minimal surface equation on the Simons cone $C(S^3\times S^3)$ to generate newer examples of minimal hypersurfaces with isolated singularities. Hardt-Simon proved that every area-minimizing quadratic cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Vishnu Nandakumaran

In this paper, we study closed embedded minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian $(n+1)$-manifold ($2\le n\le 6$) that minimize area among such hypersurfaces. We show they exist and arise either by minimization techniques or by min-max…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Laurent Mazet , Harold Rosenberg

For decades, solutions to regional scale landslide prediction have mostly relied on data-driven models, by definition, disconnected from the physics of the failure mechanism. The success and spread of such tools came from the ability to…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Ashok Dahal , Luigi Lombardo

As a typical application of deep learning, physics-informed neural network (PINN) {has been} successfully used to find numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs), but how to improve the limited accuracy is still a great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Zhi-Yong Zhang , Hui Zhang , Li-Sheng Zhang , Lei-Lei Guo

Direct observations of earthquake nucleation and propagation are few and yet the next decade will likely see an unprecedented increase in indirect, surface observations that must be integrated into modeling efforts. Machine learning (ML)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Cody Rucker , Brittany A. Erickson

We apply Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving identification problems of nonhomogeneous materials. We focus on the problem with a background in elasticity imaging, where one seeks to identify the nonhomogeneous mechanical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Enrui Zhang , Minglang Yin , George Em Karniadakis

In this paper, we explore the evolution of plane curves and surfaces governed by the hyperbolic mean curvature flow. We propose a mesh-free approach based on the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), which eliminates the need for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Shuangshuang Duan , Chunlei He , Shoujun Huang , Dexing Kong

A physics-informed neural network (PINN) uses physics-augmented loss functions, e.g., incorporating the residual term from governing partial differential equations (PDEs), to ensure its output is consistent with fundamental physics laws.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jian Cheng Wong , Chinchun Ooi , Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

This note gives the first example of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere that lacks a nonorientable essential spanning surface; this disproves the Strong Neuwirth Conjecture formulated by Ozawa and Rubinstein. Moreover, this knot has no even…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Nathan M. Dunfield

Fault slip modeling, based on laboratory-derived friction laws, has significantly enhanced our understanding of fault mechanics. Agreement between model predictions and observations supports the hypothesis that observed slip diversity,…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Rikuto Fukushima , Masayuki Kano , Kazuro Hirahara , Makiko Ohtani

This paper proves that every oriented non-disk Seifert surface $F$ for a knot $K$ in $S^3$ is smoothly concordant to a Seifert surface $F^{\prime}$ for a hyperbolic knot $K^{\prime}$ of arbitrarily large volume. This gives a new and simpler…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Robert Myers