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Effective reconstruction formulas of a curve from its theta hyperplanes are known classically in genus 2 (where the theta hyperplanes are Weierstrass points), and 3 (where, for a generic curve, the theta hyperplanes are bitangents to a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-27 David Lehavi

Topological insulators in odd dimensions are characterized by topological numbers. We prove the well-known relation between the topological number given by the Chern character of the Berry curvature and the Chern-Simons level of the low…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-03-20 Hidenori Fukaya , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Xi Wu

The fundamental solution for the wave equation in n variables is built from the simple one-dimensional formula, via an integral representation of the cosine of the sum of squares of self-adjoint operators. Representation formulas are given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yakar Kannai

Topological insulators in odd dimensions are characterized by topological numbers. We prove the well-known relation between the topological number given by the Chern character of the Berry curvature and the Chern-Simons level of the low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Hidenori Fukaya , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Xi Wu

We construct many examples of non-slice knots in 3-space that cannot be distinguished from slice knots by previously known invariants. Using Whitney towers in place of embedded disks, we define a geometric filtration of the 3-dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tim D. Cochran , Kent E. Orr , Peter Teichner

We give an explicit calculation of the Wu invariants for immersions of a finite graph into the plane and classify all generic immersions of a graph into the plane up to regular homotopy by the Wu invariant. This result is a generalization…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ryo Nikkuni

In this paper, based on the classical K. Yano's formula, we first establish an optimal integral inequality for compact Lagrangian submanifolds in the complex space forms, which involves the Ricci curvature in the direction $J\vec{H}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Zejun Hu , Cheng Xing

We prove a version of Whitney's strong embedding theorem for isometric embeddings within the general setting of the Nash-Kuiper h-principle. More precisely, we show that any $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold admits infinitely many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Wentao Cao , László Székelyhidi

For the implicit systems of first order ordinary differential equations on the plane there is presented the complete local classification of generic singularities of family of its phase curves up to smooth orbital equivalence. Besides the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. A. Davydov , G. Ishikawa , S. Izumiya , W. -Z. Sun

We prove Gronwall-type estimates for the distance of integral curves of smooth vector fields on a Riemannian manifold. Such estimates are of central importance for all methods of solving ODEs in a verified way, i.e., with full control of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Kunzinger , Hermann Schichl , Roland Steinbauer , James A. Vickers

We consider curves which go around Whitney umbrella. Then we consider the geodesic and the normal curvatures, ruled surfaces generated by the normal vector and normal developable surfaces with respect to the tangent and bi-tangent vectors…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Masayuki Hara

We define a generalization of the winding number of a piecewise $C^1$ cycle in the complex plane which has a geometric meaning also for points which lie on the cycle. The computation of this winding number relies on the Cauchy principal…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Norbert Hungerbühler , Micha Wasem

The Whitney near extension problem for finite sets in $\mathbb R^d,\, d\geq 2$ asks the following: Let $\phi:E\to \mathbb R^d$ be a near distortion on a finite set $E\subset \mathbb R^d$ with certain geometry. How to decide whether $\phi$…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-30 S. B. Damelin

We establish the theoretical foundation for a variant of the method of fundamental solutions (MFS), where the source points $\{q_j\}_{j=1}^\infty$ accumulate towards the domain in a Whitney fashion, meaning that their separation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jakob Jonsson , Andreas Rosén , Emil Timlin

Implementing an idea due to John Baez and James Dolan we define new invariants of Whitney stratified manifolds by considering the homotopy theory of smooth transversal maps. To each Whitney stratified manifold we assign transversal homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-20 Jonathan Woolf

We compute the total Stiefel-Whitney Classes (SWCs) for orthogonal representations of special linear groups $\text{SL}(n,q)$ when $n$ and $q$ are odd. These classes are expressed in terms of character values at diagonal elements of order…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Neha Malik , Steven Spallone

We prove a general Bismut's formula for the gradient of a class of smooth Wiener functionals over vector bundles of a compact Riemannian manifold. This general formula can be used repeatedly for obtaining probabilistic representation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Elton P. Hsu , Zhenan Wang

When we have a proper action of a Lie group on a manifold, it is well known that we get a stratification by orbit types and it is known that this stratification satisfies the Whitney (b) condition. In a previous article we have seen that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Julien Giacomoni

In this article, we shall derive by elementary calculations the Gauss map, spherical image, Weingarten map and the curvatures at identity of the special linear group, that is, the matrices of determinant 1. We could not find any reference…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Supravat Sarkar

This paper defines a new genus, the Cayley plane genus. By definition it is the universal multiplicative genus for oriented Cayley plane bundles. The main result (Theorem 2) is that it factors (tensor Q) through the product of the Ochanine…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-08 Carl McTague