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We introduce a class of examples which provide an affine generalization of the nonholonomic problem of a convex body rolling without slipping on the plane. We investigate dynamical aspects of the system such as existence of first integrals,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 M. Costa Villegas , L. C. García-Naranjo

A subset of the d-dimensional Euclidean space having nonempty interior is called a spindle convex body if it is the intersection of (finitely or infinitely many) congruent d-dimensional closed balls. The spindle convex body is called a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Karoly Bezdek

A surface is considered flexible if it allows a continuous deformation that preserves both metric and smoothness. We introduce a novel construction method, called 'base + crinkle,' for generating a broad class of non-self-intersecting…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zeyuan He , Simon D. Guest

We consider differentiable maps in the setting of Abstract Differential Geometry and we study the conditions that ensure the uniqueness of differentials in this setting. In particular, we prove that smooth maps between smooth manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-27 M. Fragoulopoulou , M. Papatriantafillou

We pose and answer several questions concerning the number of ways to fold a polygon to a polytope, and how many polytopes can be obtained from one polygon; and the analogous questions for unfolding polytopes to polygons. Our answers are,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Anna Lubiw , Joseph O'Rourke

Normal surface theory, a tool to represent surfaces in a triangulated 3-manifold combinatorially, is ubiquitous in computational 3-manifold theory. In this paper, we investigate a relaxed notion of normal surfaces where we remove the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Benjamin A. Burton , Éric Colin de Verdière , Arnaud de Mesmay

A system of sets forms an {\em $m$-fold covering} of a set $X$ if every point of $X$ belongs to at least $m$ of its members. A $1$-fold covering is called a {\em covering}. The problem of splitting multiple coverings into several coverings…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 János Pach , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

In this paper, we find all constant slope surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space, namely those surfaces for which the position vector of a point of the surface makes constant angle with the normal at the surface in that point. These surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-21 Marian Ioan Munteanu

It is commonly believed in the literature that smooth curves, such as circles, are not fractal, and only non-smooth curves, such as coastlines, are fractal. However, this paper demonstrates that a smooth curve can be fractal, under the new,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Ding Ma , Bin Jiang

Under the assumption of prox-regularity and the presence of a tilt stable local minimum we are able to show that a $\mathcal{VU}$ like decomposition gives rise to the existence of a smooth manifold on which the function in question…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Andrew Eberhard , Yousong Luo , Shuai Liu

We consider compact convex hypersurfaces contracting by functions of their curvature. Under the mean curvature flow, uniformly convex smooth initial hypersurfaces evolve to remain smooth and uniformly convex, and contract to points after…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Ben Andrews , James McCoy , Yu Zheng

We study ruled submanifolds of Euclidean space. First, to each (parametrized) ruled submanifold $\sigma$, we associate an integer-valued function, called degree, measuring the extent to which $\sigma$ fails to be cylindrical. In particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Matteo Raffaelli

Voevodsky has conjectured that numerical and smash equivalence coincide on a smooth projective variety. We prove this conjecture holds for uniruled 3-folds and for one dimensional cycles on products of Kummer surfaces.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Ronnie Sebastian

We complete the classification of smooth surfaces swept out by a 1-dimensional family of plane curves that do not form a fibration. As a consequence, we characterize manifolds swept out by a 1-dimensional family of hypersurfaces that do not…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-02 José Carlos Sierra

We study a new construction of bodies from a given convex body in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ which are isomorphic to (weighted) floating bodies. We establish several properties of this new construction, including its relation to $p$-affine surface…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Han Huang , Boaz A. Slomka , Elisabeth M. Werner

This essay explains an approach to the study of smooth manifolds which compares them to presheaves on a category of discs, also known as embedding calculus. We highlight recent work that shows this approach has many desirable properties, as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alexander Kupers

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

It is not known whether the realisation part of the $s$-cobordism theorem holds for smooth 4-manifolds, nor whether every pair of smoothly $h$-cobordant 4-manifolds is also smoothly $s$-cobordant. We provide some new conditions under which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Alexander Kupers , Mark Powell

Hamiltonian flows on compact surfaces are characterized, and the topological invariants of such flows with finitely many singular points are constructed from the viewpoints of integrable systems, fluid mechanics, and dynamical systems.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Tomoo Yokoyama