arXiv research

The curve complex of a 3-holed projective plane is shown to be quasi-isometric to a tree and its automorphisms are isomorphic to the mapping class group.

We establish an identity for closed hyperbolic surfaces whose terms depend on the dilogarithms of the lengths of simple closed geodesics in all 3-holed spheres and 1-holed tori in the surface.

We show that if S is a finite type orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic which is not the 3-holed sphere, 4-holed sphere or 1-holed torus, then the ending lamination space of S is connected, locally path connected and cyclic.

Given a 3-holed sphere decomposition of an orientable closed surface, it is shown that each orientation preserving homeomorphism of the surface is isotopic to a composition AB where A is a product of positive Dehn twists and B is a product of negative Dehn twists on the decomposition curves.

The study classifies semiaffine stable planes into affine, projective, or punctured projective planes.

Using symplectic topology and the Radon transform, we prove that smooth 4-dimensional projective planes are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$. We define the notion of a plane curve in a smooth projective plane, show that plane curves in high dimensional regular planes are lines, prove that homeomorphisms preserving plan…

We use reduced homogeneous coordinates to study Riemannian geometry of the octonionic (or Cayley) projective plane. Our method extends to the para-octonionic (or split octonionic) projective plane, the octonionic projective plane of indefinite signature, and the hyperbolic dual of the octonionic projective plane; we di…

A classical result asserts that the complex projective plane modulo complex conjugation is the 4-dimensional sphere. We generalize this result in two directions by considering the projective planes over the normed real division algebras and by considering the complexifications of these four projective planes.

The paper characterizes coverings over the projective plane with minimal defect.

Stable planes are locally isomorphic to classical projective planes.

Smooth lens spaces embed in complex projective planes but not in finite copies.

We give a criterion for a projective surface to become a quotient of a fake projective plane. We also give a detailed information on the elliptic fibration of a $(2,3)$-elliptic surface that is the minimal resolution of a quotient of a fake projective plane. As a consequence, we give a classification of ${\mathbb Q}$-h…

Study of a 32D Rosenfeld projective plane, a symmetric space.

Constructs projective plane over octonions, proving no higher real division algebras.

Study Cremona transformations in weighted projective planes to find rational cuspidal curves and Zariski pairs.

Computed p-widths for real projective plane.

Study on rational projective planes with small index singularities.

Paper generalizes Satoh's result on knots and projective planes.

In this paper, we study a family of curves on $S^2$ that defines a two-dimensional smooth projective plane. We use curve shortening flow to prove that any two-dimensional smooth projective plane can be smoothly deformed through a family of smooth projective planes into one which is isomorphic to the real projective pla…

The study of gyration stability in projective planes.

Classifies geodesic flows on projective plane with potential field.

Study limits of convex domains in projective plane, proving specific results.

New inequality linking geodesic length and volume in complex projective plane.

We apply the recent results of Galkin et al. [GKMS15] to study some geometrical features of Keum's fake projective planes. Among other things, we show that the bicanonical map of Keum's fake projective planes is always an embedding. Moreover, we construct a nonstandard exceptional collection on the unique fake projecti…

A new systolic inequality with a remainder for the real projective plane.

Study Morse functions on projective plane using Reeb graphs.

We found a unique 4D plane that can't be simplified.

Smooth but not symplectic embeddings of rational balls in complex projective plane found.

We prove an isoperimetric inequality for the second non-zero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the real projective plane. For a metric of the unit area this eigenvalue is not greater than 20π. This value is attained in the limit by a sequence of metrics of area one on the projective plane. The limiting met…

The known upper bounds for the multiplicities of the Laplace-Beltrami operator eigenvalues on the real projective plane are improved for the eigenvalues with even indexes. Upper bounds for Dirichlet, Neumann and Steklov eigenvalues on the real projective plane with holes are also provided.

Classifies degenerations of complex projective plane with rational singularities.

Lecture notes on curves in complex projective plane from a topological viewpoint.

We propose the study of a conformally invariant functional for surfaces of complex projective plane which is closely related to the classical Willmore functional. We show that minimal surfaces of complex projective plane are critical for this functional and construct some minima for it via the twistors spaces of comple…

After recalling the notion of caustics of plane curves and basic equations, we first show the birationality of the caustic map for a general source point S in the plane. Then we prove more generally a theorem for curves D in the projective space of 3x3 symmetric matrices B. For a general 3x1 vector S the projection to …

The authors study smooth lines on projective planes over the algebra C of complex numbers, the algebra C^1 of double numbers, and the algebra C^0 of dual numbers. In the space RP^5, to these smooth lines there correspond families of straight lines describing point three-dimensional tangentially degenerate submanifolds …

New algebraic fundamental groups identified for fake projective planes.

Study shows no smooth embeddings of rational homology balls into complex projective plane.

A natural parametrization of smooth projective plane curves which tolerates the presence of sextactic points is the Forsyth-Laguerre parametrization. On a closed projective plane curve, which necessarily contains sextactic points, this parametrization is, however, in general not periodic. We show that by the introducti…

Unique maximal curve systems found for up to 5 punctures.

We show that the infinite-dimensional space of Zoll Finsler metrics on the projective plane strongly deformation retracts to the canonical round metric. In particular, this space of Zoll Finsler metrics is connected. Moreover, the strong deformation retraction arises from a deformation of the geodesic flow of every Zol…

Investigate the local geometry of smooth surfaces in 4-space via contact with 2-planes and apparent contours.

It is proved that for a 3-dimensional compact metrizable space X the infinite real projective space is an absolute extensor of X if and only if the real projective plane is an absolute extensor of X.

All rational homology groups of unordered configuration spaces of the Moebius strip and the projective plane are calculated

The "dancing metric" is a pseudo-riemannian metric $\pmb{g}$ of signature $(2,2)$ on the space $M^4$ of non-incident point-line pairs in the real projective plane $\mathbb{RP}^2$. The null-curves of $(M^4,\pmb{g})$ are given by the "dancing condition": the point is moving towards a point on the line, about which the li…

New triangulations of octonionic projective plane found with restricted symmetry groups.

We prove that there is a correspondence between projective structures defined by torsion-free connections with skew-symmetric Ricci tensor and Veronese webs on a plane. The correspondence is used to characterise the projective structures in terms of second order ODEs.

Geometric structures on surfaces relate to 2-plane distributions in 5D.

In this work we characterize branch data of branched coverings of even degree over the projective plane which are realizable by indecomposable branched coverings.