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The hyperbolic dodecahedral space of Weber and Seifert has a natural non-positively curved cubulation obtained by subdividing the dodecahedron into cubes. We show that the hyperbolic dodecahedral space has a 6-sheeted irregular cover with the property that the canonical hypersurfaces made up of the mid-cubes give a ver…

Observational data hints at a finite universe, with spherical manifolds such as the Poincare dodecahedral space tentatively providing the best fit. Simulating the physics of a model universe requires knowing the eigenmodes of the Laplace operator on the space. The present article provides explicit polynomial eigenmodes…

Minimal Morse functions on Poincaré dodecahedral space are selected via spectral properties.

In a flat space, the global topology of comoving space can induce a weak acceleration effect similar to dark energy. Does a similar effect occur in the case of the Poincare dodecahedral space S^3/I^*? Does the effect distinguish the Poincare space from other well-proportioned spaces? The residual acceleration effect in…

Researchers prove Seifert-Weber dodecahedral space is an L-space.

In this paper we settle Thurston's old question of whether the Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken, a problem that has been a benchmark for progress in computational 3-manifold topology over recent decades. We resolve this question by combining recent significant advances in normal surface enumeration, new he…

The study finds infinitely many counterexamples to a generalized Double Soul Conjecture.

6 out of 29 dodecahedral 3-spheres are L-spaces, solving a Seiberg-Witten question.

If a closed smooth n-manifold M admits a finite cover whose Z/2Z-cohomology has the maximal cup-length, then for any riemannian metric g on M, we show that the systole Sys(M,g) and the volume Vol(M,g) of the riemannian manifold (M,g) are related by the following isosystolic inequality: Sys(M,g)^n \leq n! Vol(M,g). The …

We show that for certain arithmetic groups, geometrically finite subgroups are the intersection of finite index subgroups containing them. Examples are the Bianchi groups and the Seifert-Weber dodecahedral space. In particular, for manifolds commensurable with these groups, immersed incompressible surfaces lift to embe…

In this article we examine the conjecture of Neumann and Reid that the only hyperbolic knots in the $3$-sphere which admit hidden symmetries are the figure-eight knot and the two dodecahedral knots. Knots whose complements cover hyperbolic reflection orbifolds admit hidden symmetries, and we verify the Neumann-Reid con…

We prove that an irreducible 3-manifold whose fundamental group satisfies a certain group-theoretic property called RFRS is virtually fibered. As a corollary, we show that 3-dimensional reflection orbifolds and arithmetic hyperbolic orbifolds defined by a quadratic form virtually fiber. These include the Seifert Weber …

The only finite nonabelian simple group acting on a homology 3-sphere - necessarily non-freely - is the dodecahedral group $\Bbb A_5 \cong {\rm PSL}(2,5)$ (in analogy, the only finite perfect group acting freely on a homology 3-sphere is the binary dodecahedral group $\Bbb A_5^* \cong {\rm SL}(2,5)$). In the present pa…

Realistic evolutionary fitness landscapes are notoriously difficult to construct. A recent cutting-edge model of virus assembly consists of a dodecahedral capsid with $12$ corresponding packaging signals in three affinity bands. This whole genome/phenotype space consisting of $3^{12}$ genomes has been explored via comp…

A spherical topological manifold of dimension n-1 forms a prototile on its cover, the (n-1)-sphere. The tiling is generated by the fixpoint-free action of the group of deck transformations. By a general theorem, this group is isomorphic to the first homotopy group. Multiplicity and selection rules appear in the form of…

New spaces help connect manifold structures on equivariant Poincaré spaces.

Uniform Poincaré inequalities established for various metric spaces.

Extends Poincaré-Lefschetz duality to pairs of ∞-categories.

The paper shows plentiful non-homotopy finite Poincaré duality spaces.

Computed formulas for curvature operators and Poincaré polynomials of symmetric spaces.

A special knot in the Poincaré sphere leads to a unique connected sum of lens spaces.

The study improves Poincaré and log-Sobolev inequalities on hyperbolic spaces.

We describe classes of potential structures (covector fields) on Minkowski space that admit subgroups of the Poincaré group. We describe also seven classes of Maxwell spaces that admit subgroups of the Poincaré group.

Study Poincaré inequality in metric spaces via separating sets.

Using an inverse system of metric graphs as in: J. Cheeger and B. Kleiner, "Inverse limit spaces satisfying a Poincaré inequality", we provide a simple example of a metric space $X$ that admits Poincaré inequalities for a continuum of mutually singular measures.

Enhanced loop space decomposition for specific Poincaré complexes.

The study determines lens spaces that can be obtained from surgeries on knots in the Poincaré homology sphere.

Paper derives a formula for renormalized area of minimal hypersurfaces in 5D Poincaré-Einstein spaces.

A carpet is a metric space homeomorphic to the Sierpinski carpet. We characterize, within a certain class of examples, non-self-similar carpets supporting curve families of nontrivial modulus and supporting Poincaré inequalities. Our results yield new examples of compact doubling metric measure spaces supporting Poinca…

Proves energy expression on Poincaré-Einstein spaces.

We prove two kinds of fibering theorems for maps X --> P, where X and P are Poincare spaces. The special case of P = S^1 yields a Poincare duality analogue of the fibering theorem of Browder and Levine.

We investigate the possibility of improving the $p$-Poincaré inequality $\|\nabla_{\mathbb{H}^N} u\|_p \ge Λ_p \|u\|_p$ on the hyperbolic space, where $p>2$ and $Λ_p:=[(N-1)/p]^{p}$ is the best constant for which such inequality holds. We prove several different, and independent, improved inequalities, one of which is …

We obtain multirelative connectivity statements about spaces of Poincare embeddings, as precursors to analogous statements about spaces of smooth embeddings. The latter are the key to convergence results in the functor calculus approach to spaces of embeddings.

The author connects Poincaré embeddings to Reidemeister traces and diagonal maps.

Study shows Bergman kernels match averages on quotient spaces, proving non-vanishing of Poincaré series.

We exhibit an infinite family of knots in the Poincare homology sphere with tunnel number 2 that have a lens space surgery. Notably, these knots are not doubly primitive and provide counterexamples to a few conjectures. In the appendix, it is shown that hyperbolic knots in the Poincare homology sphere with a lens space…

We establish a number of foundational results on Poincaré spaces which result in several applications. One application settles an old conjecture of C.T.C. Wall in the affirmative. Another result shows that for any natural number n, there exists a finite CW pair $(X,Y)$ satisfying relative Poincaré duality in dimension …

Proves existence and uniqueness of weighted metrics for smooth spaces.

We show that intersection homology extends Poincare duality to manifold homotopically stratified spaces (satisfying mild restrictions). This includes showing that, on such spaces, the sheaf of singular intersection chains is quasi-isomorphic to the Deligne sheaf.

We introduce a spectrum of monotone coarse invariants for metric measure spaces called Poincaré profiles. The two extremes of this spectrum determine the growth of the space, and the separation profile as defined by Benjamini--Schramm--Timár. In this paper we focus on properties of the Poincaré profiles of groups with …

This paper investigates the space of codimension zero embeddings of a Poincare duality space in a disk. One of our main results exhibits a tower that interpolates from the space of Poincare immersions to a certain space of "unlinked" Poincare embeddings. The layers of this tower are described in terms of the coefficien…

Characterizes when almost smooth spaces become RCD spaces.

We study discrete group actions on coarse Poincare duality spaces, e.g. acyclic simplicial complexes which admit free cocompact group actions by Poincare duality groups. When G is an (n-1) dimensional duality group and X is a coarse Poincare duality space of formal dimension n, then a free simplicial action of G on X d…

A space is created to realize a specific cohomology module, showing PL structure but not smoothability.

Three models are shown to be isometrically equivalent, with a gapless first eigenvalue.

The paper removes a condition for the Nielsen realisation problem using equivariant Poincaré duality.

The study proves rigidity for Poincaré-Einstein manifolds with flat Euclidean conformal infinity.

The article proves a Poincaré inequality for hypersurfaces and applies it to rigidity results.