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This paper explores historical and philosophical aspects of angles and solid angles, inspired by Euler's work.

Optical interpretation of Euler's angle problem for caustics of light rays.

The angle defect, which is the standard way to measure curvature at the vertices of polyhedral surfaces, goes back at least as far as Descartes. Although the angle defect has been widely studied, there does not appear to be in the literature an axiomatic characterization of the angle defect. We give a characterization …

In a 1967 paper, Banchoff stated that a certain type of polyhedral curvature, that applies to all finite polyhedra, was zero at all vertices of an odd-dimensional polyhedral manifold; one then obtains an elementary proof that odd-dimensional manifolds have zero Euler characteristic. In a previous paper, the author defi…

By gluing together the sides of eight copies of an all-right angled hyperbolic 6-dimensional polytope, two orientable hyperbolic 6-manifolds with Euler characteristic -1 are constructed. They are the first known examples of orientable hyperbolic 6-manifolds having the smallest possible volume.

Let M be the interior of a compact 3-manifold with non-empty boundary, and T be an ideal (topological) triangulation of M. This paper describes necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of angle structures, semi-angle structures and generalised angle structures on (M; T) respectively in terms of a generalis…

Euler's elastica with monotone curvature is uniquely minimal.

Formula for transgressions on polyhedral manifolds, linking face volumes and outer angles.

For every orientable surface of finite negative Euler characteristic, we find a right-angled Artin group of cohomological dimension two which does not embed into the associated mapping class group. For a right-angled Artin group on a graph $\gam$ to embed into the mapping class group of a surface $S$, we show that the …

By gluing together copies of an all-right angled Coxeter polytope a number of open hyperbolic 6-manifolds with Euler characteristic -1 are constructed. They are the first known examples of hyperbolic 6-manifolds having the smallest possible volume.

In this paper, we study the (normalized) Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. Long time existence is proved for cone angle smaller than $2π$. In this case, convergence results are obtained if the Euler number is nonpositive.

We study the geometry of oriented right-angled hexagons in H^4, the hyperbolic 4-space, via Clifford numbers or quaternions. We show how to augment alternate sides of such a hexagon so that for the non-augmented sides, we can define quaternion half side-lengths whose angular parts are obtained from half the Euler angle…

New Thurston norm defined for a specific type of groups using $L^2$-invariants.

For each right-angled hexagon in the hyperbolic plane, we construct a one-parameter family of right-angled hexagons with a Lipschitz map between any two elements in this family, realizing the smallest Lipschitz constant in the homotopy class of this map relative to the boundary. As a consequence of this construction, w…

Euler explored spherical geometry using trigonometric formulae and solid geometry methods.

We compute, using a formula of Dittmann, the Bures metric tensor (g) for the eight-dimensional convex set of three-level quantum systems, employing a newly-developed Euler angle-based parameterization of the 3 x 3 density matrices. Most of the individual metric elements (g_{ij}) are found to be expressible in relativel…

The paper proves a new discrete Laplacian for 3D meshes and shows its superiority over primal construction.

In neural networks, it is often desirable to work with various representations of the same space. For example, 3D rotations can be represented with quaternions or Euler angles. In this paper, we advance a definition of a continuous representation, which can be helpful for training deep neural networks. We relate this t…

We explore a computational model of an incompressible fluid with a multi-phase field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. By investigating an incompressible fluid with a two-phase field geometrically, we reformulate the expression of the surface tension for the two-phase field found by Lafaurie, Nardone, Scardovelli, …

Study complex hyperbolic structures on a disc orbibundle with 5 cone points.

Let $M$ be a Kähler surface and $Σ$ be a closed symplectic surface which is smoothly immersed in $M$. Let $α$ be the Kähler angle of $Σ$ in $M$. We first deduce the Euler-Lagrange equation of the functional $L=\int_Σ\frac{1}{\cosα}dμ$ in the class of symplectic surfaces. It is $\cos^3αH=(J(J\nabla\cosα)^\top)^\bot$, wh…

New group found not satisfying quasi-isometric triviality property.

We consider embedded ring-type surfaces (that is, compact, connected, orientable surfaces with two boundary components and Euler-Poincaré characteristic zero) in ${\bold R}^3$ of constant mean curvature which meet planes $Π_1$ and $Π_2$ in constant contact angles $γ_1$ and $γ_2$ and bound, together with those planes, a…

The paper introduces a new discretization of Gaussian curvature on surfaces.

Let $S$ be a closed surface of genus $g$. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between hyperbolic cone-structure on $S$ and representations of the fundamental group into $\text{PSL}_2\Bbb R$. We consider surfaces of genus greater than $g$ and we show that, under suitable conditions, every representation $ρ:π_…

Associated to any finite flag complex L there is a right-angled Coxeter group W_L and a cubical complex Σ_L on which W_L acts properly and cocompactly. Its two most salient features are that (1) the link of each vertex of Σ_L is L and (2) Σ_L is contractible. It follows that if L is a triangulation of S^{n-1}, then Σ_L…

The paper proves a theorem for discretizing Gaussian curvature on surfaces.

The space of Lamé functions is mapped to a Riemann surface with known topology.

Defines Kahler angle for a broader context.

We first define a complex angle between two oriented spacelike planes in 4-dimensional Minkowski space, and then study the constant angle surfaces in that space, i.e. the oriented spacelike surfaces whose tangent planes form a constant complex angle with respect to a fixed spacelike plane. This notion is the natural Lo…

Study angle structures on pseudo 3-manifolds, proving existence for some cases.

In this paper we study the right-angled Coxeter groups that acts geometrically on the Salvetti complex of a certain right-angled Artin group, which we refer to as Croke-Kleiner spaces. We prove that any right-angled Coxeter group that acts geometrically on the Croke-Kleiner spaces acts with $π/2$ angles between reflect…

Introduces a new geometry based on difference angles, showing unique properties.

Stiefel-Whitney classes of moment-angle manifolds are trivial.

In this paper, we discuss the Lagrangian angle and the Kähler angle of immersed surfaces in $\mathbb C^2$. Firstly, we provide an extension of Lagrangian angle, Maslov form and Maslov class to more general surfaces in $\mathbb C^2$ than Lagrangian surfaces, and then naturally extend a theorem by J.-M. Morvan to surface…

Uniqueness of quasi-roots explored in right-angled Artin groups.

New Euler characteristics for groupoids generalize orbifold Euler characteristics.

This note generalizes the visual angle to convex sets in 3D space.

Study proves existence of weak mean curvature flow with contact angle.

Improved volume estimates for right-angled polyhedra in hyperbolic space.

The paper defines and calculates Euler characteristics for quandles.

Real moment-angle manifolds of combinatorially equivalent simple polytopes are equivariantly diffeomorphic.

Agol recently introduced the notion of a veering triangulation, and showed that such triangulations naturally arise as layered triangulations of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We prove, by a constructive argument, that every veering triangulation admits positive angle structures, recovering a result of Hodgson, Rubins…

We provide a congruence theorem for minimal surfaces in $S^5$ with constant contact angle using Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations. More precisely, we prove that Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations for minimal surfaces in $S^5$ with constant contact angle satisfy an equation for the Laplacian of the holomorphic angle. Also, we wi…

Moment-angle manifolds provide a wide class of examples of non-Kaehler compact complex manifolds. A complex moment-angle manifold Z is constructed via certain combinatorial data, called a complete simplicial fan. In the case of rational fans, the manifold Z is the total space of a holomorphic bundle over a toric variet…

Surveying connections between graph combinatorics and algebraic right-angled Artin groups.

The paper studies the topology of spherical tori with one conical point.

We give a new notion of angle in general metric spaces; more precisely, given a triple a points $p,x,q$ in a metric space $(X,d)$, we introduce the notion of angle cone ${\angle_{pxq}}$ as being an interval ${\angle_{pxq}}:=[\angle^-_{pxq},\angle^+_{pxq}]$, where the quantities $\angle^\pm_{pxq}$ are defined in terms o…