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We show that link Floer homology detects the Thurston norm of a link complement. As an application, we show that the Thurston polytope of an alternating link is dual to the Newton polytope of its multi-variable Alexander polynomial. To illustrate these techniques, we also compute the Thurston polytopes of several speci…

Article provides polytopes as dual unit balls of Thurston norms on 3-manifolds.

In this paper we use Heegaard Floer link homology to determine the dual Thurston polytope for pretzel links of the form P(-2r_1-1, 2q_1, -2q_2, 2r_2+1) where r_i and q_i are positive integers. We apply this result to determine the Thurston norms of spanning surfaces for the individual link components, and we explicitly…

We define the Thurston-Bennequin polytope of a two-component link as the convex hull of all pairs of integers that arise as framings of a Legendrian representative. The main result of this paper is a description of the Thurston-Bennequin polytope for two-bridge links. As an application, we construct non-quasipositive s…

The Thurston norm is derived from polytopes and applied to group cohomology.

In 1976 Thurston associated to a $3$-manifold $N$ a marked polytope in $H_1(N;\mathbb{R}),$ which measures the minimal complexity of surfaces representing homology classes and determines all fibered classes in $H^1(N;\mathbb{R})$. Recently the first and the last author associated to a presentation $π$ with two generato…

For closed 3-manifolds, Heegaard Floer homology is related to the Thurston norm through results due to Ozsváth and Szabó, Ni, and Hedden. For example, given a closed 3-manifold Y, there is a bijection between vertices of the HF^+(Y) polytope carrying the group Z and the faces of the Thurston norm unit ball that corresp…

New method uses algebras to speed up link Floer homology calculations.

Study of measured laminations on surfaces using Newton polytopes and Poisson brackets.

We compute different versions of link Floer homology $HFL^{-}$ and $\widehat{HFL}$ for any $L$-space link with two components. The main approach is to compute the $h$-function of the filtered chain complex which is determined by the Alexander polynomials of every sublink of the $L$-space link. As an application, Thurst…

This paper solves a problem in 3D geometry by defining a canonical partition for certain manifolds.

We study the Newton polytopes of determinants of square matrices defined over rings of twisted Laurent polynomials. We prove that such Newton polytopes are single polytopes (rather than formal differences of two polytopes); this result can be seen as analogous to the fact that determinants of matrices over commutative …

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

We investigate Friedl-Lück's universal $L^2$-torsion for descending HNN extensions of finitely generated free groups, and so in particular for $F_n$-by-$\mathbb{Z}$ groups. This invariant induces a semi-norm on the first cohomology of the group which is an analogue of the Thurston norm for $3$-manifold groups. We prove…

Given an $L^2$-acyclic connected finite $CW$-complex, we define its universal $L^2$-torsion in terms of the chain complex of its universal covering. It takes values in the weak Whitehead group $\operatorname{Wh}^w(G)$. We study its main properties such as homotopy invariance, sum formula, product formula and Poincaré d…

Given a triangulation of a closed, oriented, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold every oriented, incompressible surface may be isotoped into normal position relative to the triangulation. Such a normal oriented surface is then encoded by non-negative integer weights, 14 for each 3-simplex, that describe how many copies o…

The study broadens the concept of cyclic polytopes to Veronese polytopes.

The paper studies deformation spaces of Coxeter truncation polytopes.

Neural networks approximate unit spheres as polytopes.

The study classifies all compact hyperbolic polytopes with eight facets.

In this paper, we generalize the work of the second author and prove a grading shifting property, in sutured monopole and instanton Floer theories, for general balanced sutured manifolds. This result has a few consequences. First, we offer an algorithm that computes the Floer homologies of a family of sutured handle-bo…

Proves stability in Weyl polytopes using optimal transport.

Given a finite collection P of convex n-polytopes in RP^n (n>1), we consider a real projective manifold M which is obtained by gluing together the polytopes in P along their facets in such a way that the union of any two adjacent polytopes sharing a common facet is convex. We prove that the real projective structure on…

This article announces the completion of the classification of rank 4 locally projective polytopes and their quotients. There are seventeen universal locally projective polytopes (nine nondegenerate). Amongst their 441 quotients are a further four (nonuniversal) regular polytopes, and 152 nonregular but section regular…

The study classifies all compact 5D polytopes with 9 facets.

Smooth deformation space of Coxeter polytopes proven for orderable orbifolds.

The study classifies 331 specific 4D polytopes with 7 facets.

Contact manifolds' momentum polytopes are convex.

Given a lattice L of R^n, a polytope D is called a Delaunay polytope in L if the set of its vertices is S\cap L where S is a sphere having no lattice points in its interior. D is called perfect if the only ellipsoid in R^n that contains S\cap L is exactly S. For a vector v of the Leech lattice Λ_{24} we define Λ_{24}(v…

Smooth approximations bound dihedral angles of convex polytopes.

Polytopic Matrix Factorization models data as latent vectors from a polytope, maximizing determinant for identifiability.

Examines nonrational polytopes and fans in toric geometry.

The article studies factorization structures in geometry and their applications to cones and polytopes.

New methods classify hyperbolic polytopes with up to 40 facets.

The paper explains how to parameterize facets of moment polytopes in real symplectic geometry.

We introduce two operations named biflip and puzzle-move on simple polytopes producing polytopes with diffeomorphic moment-angle manifolds.

Proves necessity of at least log2(n) layers to compute maximum of n numbers.

Unified cosmological and Einstein polytope theories.

The study of symmetries in manifolds derived from colored polytopes.

Diffeomorphisms of convex polytopes form a Lie group.

Efficiently projects points onto polytopes, especially useful in web-scale applications.

Geometric constraints help classify hyperbolic polytopes.

New noncompact Coxeter polytopes found in various dimensions.

Proves weight polytope matches with energy vectors in toric varieties.

Unique floating and buoyancy surfaces identify convex polytopes.

The study proves curvature rigidity for convex polytopes.

The paper classifies compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes and improves upper bounds.

We study unbounded 2-dimensional metric polytopes such as those arising as Kähler quotients of complete Kähler 4-manifolds with two commuting symmetries and zero scalar curvature. Under a mild closedness condition, we obtain a complete classification of metrics on such polytopes, and as a result classify all possible m…