度量几何
Materials science has adopted the term of auxetic behavior for structural deformations where stretching in some direction entails lateral widening, rather than lateral shrinking. Most studies, in the last three decades, have explored…
We study the growth of hyperbolic type distances in starlike domains. We derive estimates for various hyperbolic type distances and consider the asymptotic sharpness of the estimates.
We consider proper subdomains $G$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and their images $G'=f(G)$ under quasiconformal mappings $f$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We compare the distance ratio metrics of $G$ and $G'$; as an application we show that $\varphi$-uniform…
Some sharp inequalities between the triangular ratio metric and the Cassinian metric are proved in the unit ball.
This paper introduces a technique for proving the local optimality of packing configurations. Applying this technique to a general convex polygon, we prove that the construction of the optimal double lattice packing by Kuperberg and…
We consider the problem of identifying the worst point-symmetric shape for covering n-dimensional Euclidean space with lattice translates. Here we focus on the dimensions where the thinnest lattice covering with balls is known and ask…
We develop a theory of planar, origin-symmetric, convex domains that are inextensible with respect to lattice covering, that is, domains such that augmenting them in any way allows fewer domains to cover the same area. We show that…
We show that products of snowflaked Euclidean lines are not minimal for looking down. This question was raised in Fractured fractals and broken dreams, Problem 11.17, by David and Semmes. The proof uses arguments developed by Le Donne, Li…
We show that the maximum number of convex polygons in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane is $O(1.5029^n)$. This improves an earlier bound of $O(1.6181^n)$ established by van Kreveld, L\"offler, and Pach (2012) and almost matches the…
We study an inhomogeneous Neumann boundary value problem for functions of least gradient on bounded domains in metric spaces that are equipped with a doubling measure and support a Poincar\'e inequality. We show that solutions exist under…
Within the $\Gamma_2$-calculus of Bakry and Ledoux, we define the Ricci tensor induced by a diffusion operator, we deduce precise formulas for its behavior under drift transformation, time change and conformal transformation, and we derive…
We prove that the answer to the question of the title is `as many times as you want.' More precisely, given any constant $c>0$, we construct two oblique triangular bipyramids, $P$ and $Q$, such that $P$ is convex, $Q$ is nonconvex and…
Wenger and Young proved that the pair $(\mathbb{R}^m,\mathbb{H}^n)$ has the Lipschitz extension property for $m \leq n$ where $\mathbb{H}^n$ is the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group. That is, for some $C>0$, any $L$-Lipschitz map from a…
Given a planar pentagon, construct two new pentagons: the vertices of the first one are the intersection points of the diagonals of the original pentagon, and the vertices of the second one are the tangency points of the conic inscribed in…
In this paper we determine new upper bounds for the maximal density of translative packings of superballs in three dimensions (unit balls for the $l^p_3$-norm) and of Platonic and Archimedean solids having tetrahedral symmetry. Thereby, we…
We prove that a linear growth graph has finitely many horofunctions. This provides a short and simple proof that any finitely generated infinite group of linear growth is virtually cyclic.
We give a detailed proof of some facts about the blow-up of horizontal curves in Carnot-Carath\'eodory spaces.
The purpose of this paper is to study the notion of the quasihyperbolic volume and to find growth estimates for the quasihyperbolic volume of balls in a domain $G \subset {\mathbb R}^n\,$ in terms of the radii.
We consider the X-ray transform in a projective space over a finite field. It is well known (after E. Bolker) that this transform is injective. We formulate an analog of I.M. Gelfand's admissibility problem for the Radon transform, which…
The present paper deals with the problem of computing (or at least estimating) the LW-number $\lambda(n)$, i.e., the supremum of all $\gamma$ such that for each convex body $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ there exists an orthonormal basis…