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It is well known that twistor constructions can be used to analyse and to obtain solutions to a wide class of integrable systems. In this article we express the standard twistor constructions in terms of the concept of an admissible family…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Dunajski , S. Gindikin , L. J. Mason

In [10] it was shown that there is a mapping class group-equivariant deformation retraction of the Teichm\"uller space of a closed surface onto a CW complex with dimension equal to the virtual cohomological dimension of the mapping class…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Ingrid Irmer

The twistor construction is applied for obtaining examples of generalized complex structures (in the sense of N. Hitchin) that are not induced by a complex or a symplectic structure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Johann Davidov , Oleg Mushkarov

We characterize the cyclic branched covers of the 2-sphere where every homeomorphism of the sphere lifts to a homeomorphism of the covering surface. This answers a question that appeared in an early version of the erratum of Birman and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Tyrone Ghaswala , Rebecca R. Winarski

A representation of generalized Weierstrass formulae for an immersion of generic surfaces into a 4-dimensional complex space in terms of spinors treated as minimal left ideals of Clifford algebras is proposed. The relation between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

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 reproduce the quantum cohomology of toric varieties (and of some hypersurfaces in projective spaces) as the cohomology of certain vertex algebras with differential. The deformation technique allows us to compute the cohomology of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Malikov , V. Schechtman

We show how the description of a shear-free ray congruence in Minkowski space as an evolving family of semi-conformal mappings can naturally be formulated on a finite graph. For this, we introduce the notion of holomorphic function on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Paul Baird , Mohammad Wehbe

This paper resolves a long-standing open problem by providing a classification of Willmore $2$-spheres in $S^n$. We show that any such $2$-sphere is either totally isotropic--originating from the projection of a special twistor curve in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Xiang Ma , Franz Pedit , Peng Wang

We show that certain structures and constructions of the Whitham theory, an essential part of the perturbation theory of soliton equations, can be instrumental in understanding the geometry of the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Samuel Grushevsky , Igor Krichever

Several classes of solutions of the generalized Weierstrass system, which induces constant mean curvature surfaces into four-dimensional Euclidean space are constructed. A gauge transformation allows us to simplify the system considered and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bracken , A. M. Grundland

We develop the theory of CW(A)-complexes, which generalizes the classical theory of CW-complexes, keeping the geometric intuition of J.H.C. Whitehead's original theory. We obtain this way generalizations of classical results, such as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Minian , Miguel Ottina

On base of differential biquaternions algebra and generalized functions theory the biquaternionic wave equation is considered under vector representation of its structural coefficient. Its generalized solutions are constructed, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 L. A Alexeyeva

In this paper we derive a general solution for the most general rotating and twisting locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes. This is achieved in three steps. First we decompose the manifold via 1+1+2 semi-tetrad formalism that yields a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Sayuri Singh , George F. R. Ellis , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj

The purpose of this paper is to study transport equations on the unit tangent bundle of closed oriented Riemannian surfaces and to connect these to the transport twistor space of the surface (a complex surface naturally tailored to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Jan Bohr , Thibault Lefeuvre , Gabriel P. Paternain

In this paper, we consider deformations of singular complex curves on complex surfaces. Despite the fundamental nature of the problem, little seems to be known for curves on general surfaces. Let $C\subset S$ be a complete integral curve on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Takeo Nishinou

Kerr's multi-particle solution is obtained on the base of the Kerr theorem. Choosing generating function of the Kerr theorem $F$ as a product of partial functions $F_i$ for spinning particles i=1,...k, we obtain a multi-sheeted,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Burinskii

In this paper we describe a 1-dimensional family of initial conditions \Sigma that provides reduced periodic solution of the three body problem. This family \Sigma contains a bifurcation point and extend the periodic solution described in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Oscar Perdomo

Twistor forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We study twistor forms on compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

Based on Morse theory for the energy functional on path spaces we develop a deformation theory for mapping spaces of spheres into orthogonal groups. This is used to show that these mapping spaces are weakly homotopy equivalent, in a stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Jost-Hinrich Eschenburg , Bernhard Hanke