arXiv research

Study on minimizing closed geodesics on polygons and disks.

The paper explores geodesics on doubled polygons and their existence.

Proofs contractibility of geodesic triangulations spaces and non-trivial homotopy groups.

Maximal distortion between geodesic and Euclidean diameters in polygonal domains is studied.

Study calculates heat coefficients from geodesic polygon corners.

Geodesics on polygons in a unit disk are studied with unique metric properties.

The study of geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces with angle and side bounds.

Geodesic nets on flat spheres are studied using Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

New findings on strong convexity in triangulations of convex polygons.

The paper finds minimal-area metrics on polygons with multiple crossing geodesics.

The paper studies circle packings on surfaces with boundary and their total geodesic curvatures.

In this thesis we deal with spectral invariants for polygons and closed orbisurfaces of constant Gaussian curvature. In each case our method is to study the heat kernel and the asymptotic expansion of the heat trace. First, we investigate hyperbolic polygons, i.e. relatively compact domains in the hyperbolic plane with…

Asymptotic geodesics in convex polygons are convex for large distances.

We prove that, among the polygons in a punctured disc with fixed angles, the perimeter is minimized by the polygon with an inscribed horocycle centered at the puncture. We generalize this to a disc with a cone point and to an annulus with a geodesic boundary component and a complete end. Then we apply this result to de…

We explore several families of flip-graphs, all related to polygons or punctured polygons. In particular, we consider the topological flip-graphs of once-punctured polygons which, in turn, contain all possible geometric flip-graphs of polygons with a marked point as embedded sub-graphs. Our main focus is on the geometr…

Kirigami-inspired math reveals shortest paths and ultimate shapes of cut paper.

Study of polygon degeneration to segments in complex space.

Paper finds shortest geodesic paths on hyperbolic surfaces.

We describe the first-order variations of the angles of Euclidean, spherical or hyperbolic polygons under infinitesimal deformations such that the lengths of the edges do not change. Using this description, we introduce a vector-valued quadratic invariant $b$ on the space of those isometric deformations which, for conv…

A hyperbolic polygon is defined to be cyclic, horocyclic, or equidistant if its vertices lie on a metric circle, horocycle, or a component of the equidistant locus to a hyperbolic geodesic, respectively. Convex such $n$-gons are parametrized by the subspaces of $(0,\infty)^n$ that contain their side length collections,…

A semi-regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane is a tessellation by regular geodesic polygons with the property that each vertex has the same vertex-type, which is a cyclic tuple of integers that determine the number of sides of the polygons surrounding the vertex. We determine combinatorial criteria for the existence, …

We study geodesics on a planar Riemann surface of infinite type having a single infinite end. Of particular interest is the class of geodesics that go out the infinite end in a most efficient manner. We investigate properties of these geodesics and relate them to the structure of the boundary of a Dirichlet polygon for…

Partial coverings of hyperbolic surfaces equidistribute with geodesics.

The abstract proves spherical surface decompositions with conical singularities.

The paper studies right-angled links on higher genus surfaces.

In a symmetric space of noncompact type X = G/K oriented geodesic segments correspond to points in the Euclidean Weyl chamber. We can hence assign vector-valued side-lengths to segments. Our main result is a system of homogeneous linear inequalities describing the restrictions on the side -lengths of closed polygons. T…

We construct harmonic diffeomorphisms from the complex plane $C$ onto any Hadamard surface $M$ whose curvature is bounded above by a negative constant. For that, we prove a Jenkins-Serrin type theorem for minimal graphs in $M\times R$ over domains of $M$ bounded by ideal geodesic polygons and show the existence of a se…

Geodesic algorithms extended to arbitrary ellipsoids.

The paper confirms conjectures about the topology of triangulated polyhedra and geodesic triangulations on spheres.

We study two $2$-dimensional Teichmüller spaces of surfaces with boundary and marked points, namely, the pentagon and the punctured triangle. We show that their geometry is quite different from Teichmüller spaces of closed surfaces. Indeed, both spaces are exhausted by regular convex geodesic polygons with a fixed numb…

Identifying parallel sides of a collection of Euclidean polygons yields a flat surface with cone points of angles multiples of 2 pi, naturally a compact Riemann surface but also an algebraic curve, and a hyperbolic surface. In general two different metrics on a surface have no geodesic arcs in common, but in special ca…

As in a symmetric space of noncompact type, one can associate to an oriented geodesic segment in a Euclidean building a vector valued length in the Euclidean Weyl chamber; in addition to the metric length it contains information on the direction of the segment. We study in this paper restrictions on the vector valued s…

A finite subset S of a closed hyperbolic surface F canonically determines a "centered dual decomposition" of F: a cell structure with vertex set S, geodesic edges, and 2-cells that are unions of the corresponding Delaunay polygons. Unlike a Delaunay polygon, a centered dual 2-cell Q is not determined by its collection …

It is known that a complete immersed minimal surface with finite total curvature in $\mathbb H^2\times\mathbb R$ is proper, has finite topology and each one of its ends is asymptotic to a geodesic polygon at infinity (Hauswirth and Rosenberg, 2006; Hauswirth, Nelli, Sa Earp and Toubiana, 2015). In this paper we prove t…

The paper solves circle packings on surfaces with boundaries.

This paper calculates interaction strength for translation surfaces with multiple singularities.

Study introduces weak elastic energy for curves on Riemannian surfaces.

Let X be a toric surface with Delzant polygon P and u(t) be a solution of the Calabi flow equation on P. Suppose the Calabi flow exists in [0, T). By studying local estimates of the Riemann curvature and the geodesic distance under the Calabi flow, we prove a uniform interior estimate of u(t) for t < T.

Laurent Hauswirth and Harold Rosenberg developed the theory of minimal surfaces with finite total curvature in $\H^2\times\R$. They showed that the total curvature of one such a surface must be a non-negative integer multiple of $-2π$. The first examples appearing in this context are vertical geodesic planes and Scherk…

Study precise rates of horizontal gap shrinkage on generic translation surfaces.

New methods classify convex lattice polygons for affine dimers.

The hitting measure is singular and has dimension less than 1 for cocompact Fuchsian groups.

Paper shows mapping class group-equivariant Teichmüller space deformation to Thurston spine.

The pentagram map's limit point is related to infinitesimal perturbations of polygons.

The paper explores centroaffine geometry of polygons and their duals.

Foliation of star-shaped polygons with fixed perimeter and area.

General area-preserving motion of polygonal curves is formulated as a system of ODEs. Solution polygonal curves belong to a prescribed polygonal class, which is similar to the admissible class used in the crystalline curvature flow. The ODEs are discretized implicitly in time keeping a given constant area speed while s…

The pentagram map preserves Poncelet polygons in convex cases.