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We prove that if we fill without gaps a bag with infinitely many potatoes, in such a way that they touch each other in few points, then the total surface area of the potatoes must be infinite. In this context potatoes are measurable subsets…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Matteo Novaga , Emanuele Paolini , Eugene Stepanov

The ordered configuration space of $n$ open unit squares in the $w$ by $h$ rectangle exhibits homological stability in the space direction. That is, for fixed $n$ and fixed homological degree $k$, once the underlying rectangle is large…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Jesús González , Matthew Kahle , Nicholas Wawrykow

In this work, we study the space of complete embedded rotationally symmetric self-shrinking hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. First, using comparison geometry in the context of metric geometry, we derive explicit upper bounds for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-26 John Man Shun Ma , Ali Muhammad , Niels Martin Møller

We study when an arrangement of axis-aligned rectangles can be transformed into an arrangement of axis-aligned squares in $\mathbb{R}^2$ while preserving its structure. We found a counterexample to the conjecture of J. Klawitter, M.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Matěj Konečný , Stanislav Kučera , Michal Opler , Jakub Sosnovec , Štěpán Šimsa , Martin Töpfer

The article presents the mathematical sequences describing circle packing densities in four different geometric configurations involving a hexagonal lattice based equal circle packing in the Euclidian plane. The calculated sequences take…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Jure Voglar , Aljoša Peperko

We discuss here geometric structures of condensed matters by means of a fundamental topological method. Any geometric pattern can be universally represented by a decomposition space of a topological space consisting of the infinite product…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shousuke Ohmori , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada

We settle J. Wetzel's 1970's conjecture and show that a 30{^\circ} circular sector of unit radius can accommodate every planar arc of unit length. Leo Moser asked in 1966 for the smallest (convex) region in the plane that can accommodate…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Chatchawan Panraksa , Wacharin Wichiramala

The adsorption of a single ideal polymer chain on energetically heterogeneous and rough surfaces is investigated using a variational procedure introduced by Garel and Orland (Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997), 226). The mean polymer size is calculated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregor Huber , Thomas A. Vilgis

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 examine volume pinching problems of CAT(1) spaces. We characterize a class of compact geodesically complete CAT(1) spaces of small specific volume. We prove a sphere theorem for compact CAT(1) homology manifolds of small volume. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Koichi Nagano

This is the first in a series of papers giving a proof of the Kepler conjecture, which asserts that the density of a packing of congruent spheres in three dimensions is never greater than $\pi/\sqrt{18}\approx 0.74048...$. This is the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas C. Hales

Consider a proper geodesic metric space $(X,d)$ equipped with a Borel measure $\mu.$ We establish a family of uniform Poincar\'e inequalities on $(X,d,\mu)$ if it satisfies a local Poincar\'e inequality ($P_{loc}$) and a condition on growth…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Gautam Neelakantan Memana , Soma Maity

By Gromov's compactness theorem for metric spaces, every uniformly compact sequence of metric spaces admits an isometric embedding into a common compact metric space in which a subsequence converges with respect to the Hausdorff distance.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-29 Stefan Wenger

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: find a maximum-area rectangle and a maximum-perimeter rectangle contained in a given convex polygon with $n$ vertices. We give exact algorithms that solve these problems in time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Sergio Cabello , Otfried Cheong , Christian Knauer , Lena Schlipf

We present filling as a new type of spatial subdivision problem that is related to covering and packing. Filling addresses the optimal placement of overlapping objects lying entirely inside an arbitrary shape so as to cover the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Carolyn L. Phillips , Joshua A. Anderson , Elizabeth R. Chen , Sharon C. Glotzer

We prove that every unit area convex pentagon is contained in a convex quadrilateral of area no greater than $3/\sqrt{5}$, and that every unit area convex hexagon is contained in a convex pentagon of area no greater than $7/6$. Both results…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Elliot Hong , Dan Ismailescu , Alex Kwak , Grace Yeeun Park

Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the space of embedded, which may be improper, free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with uniform area and Morse index upper bound is compact in the sense of smoothly graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom deduced complete classification of geometric spaces. In this work, supposed to your attention, author formalizes Yaglom's approach and constructs uniform theory of geometric spaces on analytic level. Among its…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Alexander Popa

Let a polygon be composed of equal rectangles. We find all quadratic irrationals r for which the polygon can be tiled by similar rectangles with given side ratio r.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Ivan Novikov

We establish a structure theorem for minimizing sequences for the isoperimetric problem on noncompact $\mathsf{RCD}(K,N)$ spaces $(X,\mathsf{d},\mathcal{H}^N)$. Under the sole (necessary) assumption that the measure of unit balls is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Gioacchino Antonelli , Stefano Nardulli , Marco Pozzetta