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The well known Andrews-Curtis Conjecture [2] is still open. In this paper, we establish its finite version by describing precisely the connected components of the Andrews-Curtis graphs of finite groups. This finite version has independent…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Alexandre V. Borovik , Alexander Lubotzky , Alexei G. Myasnikov

We give a combinatorial proof, using the hyperbolicity of the curve graphs, of the bounded geodesic image theorem of Masur and Minsky. Recently it has been shown that curve graphs are uniformly hyperbolic, thus a universal bound can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Richard C. H. Webb

The purpose of this article is to produce effective versions of some rigidity results in algebra and geometry. On the geometric side, we focus on the spectrum of primitive geodesic lengths (resp., complex lengths) for arithmetic hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Benjamin Linowitz , D. B. McReynolds , Paul Pollack , Lola Thompson

It is shown that $N$ points on a real algebraic curve of degree $n$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ always determine $\gtrsim_{n,d}N^{1+\frac{1}{4}}$ distinct distances, unless the curve is a straight line or the closed geodesic of a flat torus. In the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Marcos Charalambides

We give a uniform bound of the bounded geodesic image theorem for the closed oriented surfaces. The proof utilizes the bicorn curves introduced by Przytycki and Sisto (see arXiv:1502.02176). With the uniformly bounded Hausdorff distance of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Xifeng Jin

In the 1970s, the collar theorem was proven, establishing the existence of uniform tubular neighborhoods of simple closed geodesics on compact surfaces, whose widths depend only on the lengths of the geodesics and the lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Peter Buser , Jose M. Rodriguez

In this note, we prove that finite CAT(0) cube complexes can be reconstructed from their boundary distances (computed in their 1-skeleta). This result was conjectured by Haslegrave, Scott, Tamitegama, and Tan (2023). The reconstruction of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Jérémie Chalopin , Victor Chepoi

A rigidity theory is developed for frameworks in a metric space with two types of distance constraints. Mixed sparsity graph characterisations are obtained for the infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of completely regular bar-joint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Anthony Nixon , Stephen Power

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

A metrized complex of algebraic curves is a finite metric graph together with a collection of marked complete nonsingular algebraic curves, one for each vertex, the marked points being in bijection with incident edges. We establish a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Omid Amini , Matthew Baker

In this note we consider a question related to the high-dimensional generalization of the classical Severi's finiteness theorem for curves. We will introduce some background and then state the main result. The proof of the main result is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Guoquan Gao

The subject of limit curve theorems in Lorentzian geometry is reviewed. A general limit curve theorem is formulated which includes the case of converging curves with endpoints and the case in which the limit points assigned since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Minguzzi

We obtain a coarse relationship between geometric intersection numbers of curves and the sum of their subsurface projection distances with explicit quasi-constants. By using this relationship, we give applications in the studies of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Yohsuke Watanabe

The complex of curves $\mathcal{C}(S_g)$ of a closed orientable surface of genus $g \geq 2$ is the simplicial complex having its vertices, $\mathcal{C}^0(S_g)$, are isotopy classes of essential curves in $S_g$. Two vertices co-bound an edge…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Paul Glenn , William W. Menasco , Kayla Morrell , Matthew Morse

The writhe of a space curve fragment is considered for various boundary conditions. An expression for the writhe as a function of arclength for an arbitrary space curve is obtained. The formula is built on the base of closing the tangent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-04-01 E. L. Starostin

We prove the first polynomial bound on the number of monotonic homotopy moves required to tighten a collection of closed curves on any compact orientable surface, where the number of crossings in the curve is not allowed to increase at any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Hsien-Chih Chang , Arnaud de Mesmay

Suppose N is a compressible boundary component of a compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold M and Q is an orientable properly embedded essential surface in M in which each component is incident to N and no component is a disk. Let VN and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin Scharlemann

The fine curve graph of a surface is a graph whose vertices are essential simple closed curves and whose edges connect disjoint curves. Following a rich history of hyperbolicity of various graphs associated to surfaces, the fine curve graph…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ryan Dickmann , Roberta Shapiro

We show that the Fr\'echet distance of two-dimensional parametrised surfaces in a metric space is computable in the bit-model of real computation. An analogous result in the real RAM model for piecewise-linear surfaces has recently been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Eike Neumann