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We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the mapping class group of the pair of the 3-sphere and a graph embedded in it to be isomorphic to the topological symmetry group of the embedded graph.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-22 Sangbum Cho , Yuya Koda

The Harmonic Mapping Problem asks when there exists a harmonic homeomorphism between two given domains. It arises in the theory of minimal surfaces and in calculus of variations, specifically in hyperelasticity theory. We investigate this…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Tadeusz Iwaniec , Leonid V. Kovalev , Jani Onninen

Let $S$ be a surface with a metric $d$ satisfying an upper curvature bound in the sense of Alexandrov (i.e. via triangle comparison). We show that an almost conformal harmonic map from a surface into $(S,d)$ is a branched covering. As a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Christine Breiner , Chikako Mese

A discrete harmonic surface is a trivalent graph which satisfies the balancing condition in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space and achieves energy minimizing under local deformations. Given a topological trivalent graph, a holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Motoko Kotani , Hisashi Naito

In the first part of this paper we shall classify proper triharmonic isoparametric surfaces in 3-dimensional homogeneous spaces (Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces, shortly BCV-spaces). We shall also prove that triharmonic Hopf cylinders are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Stefano Montaldo , Cezar Oniciuc , Andrea Ratto

In this paper, it is shown that every orientable closed 3-manifold maps with nonzero degree onto at most finitely many homeomorphically distinct irreducible non-geometric orientable closed 3-manifolds. Moreover, given any nonzero integer,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Yi Liu

Given a smooth, open, oriented surface $X$ endowed with a family of complex structures $\{J_b\}_{b\in B}$ depending continuously on the parameter $b$ in a metrisable space $B$, we construct a continuous family of proper holomorphic maps…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Barbara Drinovec Drnovsek , Jure Kalisnik

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

In this paper we consider approximations introduced by Sacks-Uhlenbeck of the harmonic energy for maps from $S^2$ into $S^2$. We continue the analysis in [6] about limits of $\alpha$-harmonic maps with uniformly bounded energy. Using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tobias Lamm , Andrea Malchiodi , Mario Micallef

We prove that if a simplicial complex is shellable, then the intersection lattice for the corresponding diagonal arrangement is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres. Furthermore, we describe precisely the spheres in the wedge, based on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-12 Sangwook Kim

Let $S$ be a complete flat surface, such as the Euclidean plane. We determine the homeomorphism class of the space of all curves on $S$ which start and end at given points in given directions and whose curvatures are constrained to lie in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Nicolau C. Saldanha , Pedro Zühlke

On foliations, there are two kinds of harmonic maps, that is, transversally harmonic map and $(F,F')$-harmonic map which are equivalent when the foliation is minimal. In this paper, we study transversally f-harmonic and $(F,F')_f$-harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Xueshan Fu , Jinhua Qian , Seoung Dal Jung

We construct a family of Hermitian metrics on the Hopf surface $ \mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{S}^1$, whose fundamental classes represent distinct cohomology classes in the Aeppli cohomology group. These metrics are locally conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Jingyi Chen , Liding Huang

We classify biharmonic and harmonic homomorphisms $f:(G,g_1)\rightarrow(G,g_2)$ where $G$ is a connected and simply connected three-dimensional unimodular Lie group and $g_1$ and $g_2$ are left invariant Riemannian metrics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Sihem Boubekeur , Mohamed Boucetta

Let $X$ be a compact toric variety. Let $Hol$ denote the space of based holomorphic maps from $CP^1$ to $X$ which lie in a fixed homotopy class. Let $Map$ denote the corresponding space of continuous maps. We show that $Hol$ has the same…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Martin A. Guest

We compute the spoke-graded $C_3$-equivariant stable homotopy groups of spheres $\pi_{i, j}^{C_3}$, for stems less than 25 (i.e. $i\leq 25$) and for weights between -16 and 16 (i.e. $-16\leq j\leq 16$). In particular, for $j=2k$, this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yueshi Hou , Shangjie Zhang

We study the homology concordance group of knots in integer homology three-spheres which bound integer homology four-balls. Using knot Floer homology, we construct an infinite number of $\mathbb{Z}$-valued, linearly independent homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Irving Dai , Jennifer Hom , Matthew Stoffregen , Linh Truong

\emph{Scalable spaces} are simply connected compact manifolds or finite complexes whose real cohomology algebra embeds in their algebra of (flat) differential forms. This is a rational homotopy invariant property and all scalable spaces are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Aleksandr Berdnikov , Fedor Manin

A Riemannian manifold is called harmonic if its volume density function expressed in polar coordinates centered at any point is radial. Flat and rank-one symmetric spaces are harmonic. The converse (the Lichnerowicz Conjecture) is true for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Nikolayevsky

The spaces of harmonic maps of the projective plane to the four-dimensional sphere are investigated in this paper by means of twistor lifts. It is shown that such spaces are empty in case of even harmonic degree. In case of harmonic degree…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Ravil Gabdurakhmanov