Proves existence of Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary slopes.
problem Finding Lefschetz fibrations with specific slopes.
method Proves existence for rational numbers in (2,8) with large genus.
result Arbitrary slopes (r in (2,8)) are possible for genus-g Lefschetz fibrations.
Solves Fu-Yau equation in arbitrary dimensions and slope.
problem Solving the Fu-Yau equation in arbitrary dimensions and slope.
method Introduced a more stringent ellipticity condition to solve the equation.
result Improved solutions for known and open cases of the Fu-Yau equation.
The study confirms conjectures about slopes of knots using knot Floer homology.
problem Verifying conjectures about non-integer characterizing slopes of knots.
method Using knot Floer homology, the study verifies conjectures for specific classes of knots.
result Almost all slopes are characterizing for many knots, and infinitely many for L-space knots. Existence of metrics on non-Kähler varieties, generalizing previous work.
problem Existence of metrics on non-Kähler varieties.
method Definition of slope stability and existence of singular Hermite-Einstein metrics.
result Existence and uniqueness of singular Hermite-Einstein metrics for slope-stable sheaves.
The Fu-Yau equation is an equation introduced by J. Fu and S.T. Yau as a generalization to arbitrary dimensions of an ansatz for the Strominger system. As in the Strominger system, it depends on a slope parameter α′. The equation was solved in dimension 2 by Fu and Yau in two successive papers for α′>0, and for $…
We obtain a Bernstein theorem for special Lagrangian graphs in n-dimensional complex space for arbitrary n only assuming bounded slope, but no quantitative restriction.
We analyze the slope gap distribution of Veech surfaces, finding finite non-analytic points and quadratic tail decay.
problem Understanding the slope gap distribution of Veech surfaces.
method Explicit parameterization of a Poincaré section to the horocycle flow, finiteness result for the first return map.
result The limiting gap distribution of slopes of saddle connections on Veech surfaces is piecewise real-analytic with finitely many points of non-analyticity and has quadratic tail decay.
Solves time-optimal navigation on slippery slopes with cross gravitational wind.
problem Time-optimal navigation on a slippery cross slope under gravitational wind.
method New Finsler metric derived for the problem, considering both lateral and longitudinal gravitational effects.
result Conditions for strong convexity and purely geometric solution provided.
This is the last of a series of papers which give a necessary and sufficient condition for two essential simple loops on a 2-bridge sphere in a 2-bridge link complement to be homotopic in the link complement. The first paper of the series treated the case of the 2-bridge torus links, and the second paper treated the ca…
The paper calculates gap distributions for translation surfaces, focusing on the double heptagon.
problem Calculating gap distributions for translation surfaces.
method Describes a procedure to find winning holonomy vectors and applies it to the double heptagon.
result Explicitly computed gap distribution for the regular double heptagon translation surface.
Adam optimization algorithm can have non-zero average regret under certain conditions.
problem Non-zero average regret in Adam optimization algorithm.
method Used a three-periodic sequence of linear functions on [-1,1] with slopes c, -1, -1, and analyzed Adam variants.
result Adam optimization algorithm can have non-zero average regret under certain conditions.
We classify positive tight contact structures, up to isotopy fixing the boundary, on the manifolds N=M(D2;r1,r2) with minimal convex boundary of slope s and Giroux torsion 0 along ∂N, where r1,r2∈(0,1)∩Q, in the following cases: (1) s∈(−∞,0)∪[2,+∞); (2) $s\in[0…
The Slope Conjecture is verified for a specific family of Montesinos knots.
problem Relating the degree of the colored Jones polynomial to boundary slopes of knots.
method Verification for a specific family of Montesinos knots with given conditions.
result The Slope Conjecture and Strong Slope Conjecture are confirmed for the specified knots.
Plots show miscalibration directly as slopes of secant lines.
problem Detecting discrepancies between probabilistic predictions and actual outcomes.
method Cumulative differences between observed and expected values displayed as slopes of secant lines.
result Directly shows miscalibration without binning or kernel density estimation.
The study confirms a conjecture for a specific type of knot.
problem Determining the topology of essential surfaces in knot theory.
method Analyzing twisted, generalized Whitehead doubles of knots.
result Twisted, generalized Whitehead doubles satisfy the Slope and Strong Slope Conjectures.
The slope conjecture proposed by Garoufalidis asserts that the Jones slopes given by the sequence of degrees of the colored Jones polynomials are boundary slopes. We verify the slope conjecture for graph knots, i.e. knots whose Gromov volume vanish.
Proves conditions for weighted Hermite-Einstein metrics on vector bundles.
problem Conditions for existence of weighted Hermite-Einstein metrics.
method Introduces weighted Hermite-Einstein equation, stability notions, and proves existence.
result Existence of weighted Hermite-Einstein metrics if and only if slope polystable.
In 1980, I. Morrison proved that slope stability of a vector bundle of rank 2 over a compact Riemann surface implies Chow stability of the projectivization of the bundle with respect to certain polarizations. Using the notion of balanced metrics and recent work of Donaldson, Wang, and Phong-Sturm, we show that the stat…
Study compactifications of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections on projective manifolds.
problem Analyzing compactifications of moduli spaces of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections.
method Defined a gauge theoretic compactification and compared it with sheaf theoretic compactifications.
result Gauge theoretic compactification endowed with complex analytic space structure.
Study slopes in 3-manifolds, proving conjectures about knots.
problem Understanding slopes in 3-manifolds and their implications for knots.
method Upper bounds on distances between slopes, applications to knots and surgeries.
result Bounds on boundary and degeneracy slopes for knots in 3-manifolds.
Using the Hatcher-Oertel algorithm for finding boundary slopes of Montesinos knots, we prove the Slope Conjecture and the Strong Slope Conjecture for a family of 3-tangle pretzel knots. More precisely, we prove that the maximal degrees of the colored Jones polynomial of such knots determine a boundary slope as predicte…
The study identifies characterising slopes for hyperbolic knots and proves stronger results for L-space knots.
problem Characterizing slopes of hyperbolic knots and their properties.
method Combining Lackenby's proof and Heegaard Floer homology genus bounds.
result All but finitely many slopes are characterising for hyperbolic knots and L-space knots.
Constructs Lefschetz fibrations with slopes near 2.
problem Finding Lefschetz fibrations with slopes close to 2.
method Constructs minimal, simply connected genus-g Lefschetz fibrations over the sphere.
result The infimum and supremum of slopes are not achievable.
Study on geometry of mountain slopes as Finsler metrics.
problem Existence and behavior of slope metrics on surfaces of revolution.
method Analysis of Finsler metrics on surfaces of revolution and comparison with Riemannian areas.
result Existence of globally defined slope metrics on surfaces of revolution.
Paper analyzes origami slope gaps and their distribution, finding a unique pattern.
problem Analyzing slope gaps in origami surfaces.
method Derived slope gap distribution of a specific origami by considering return times under the horocycle flow.
result Found a unique distribution of origami slope gaps, not a sum of scaled Hall distributions.
Study provides concrete examples of knot slopes.
problem Finding explicit characterizing slopes for knots.
method Concrete examples for the (-2,3,7)-pretzel knot.
result Explicit characterizing slopes for the knot 12n242. 2-level SLOPE improves high-dimensional inference with fewer hyperparameters.
problem High-dimensional linear regression with complex penalty sequences.
method 2-level SLOPE with three hyperparameters, reducing penalty space.
result Sharp trade-off between TPP and FDP, computationally efficient.
The Strong Slope Conjecture is proven for specific knot types.
problem Proving the Strong Slope Conjecture for various knot types.
method Using connect sums and cabling, the conjecture is shown to be closed under these operations.
result The Strong Slope Conjecture is established for graph knots.
Concerning the set of exceptional surgery slopes for a hyperbolic knot, Lackenby and Meyerhoff proved that the maximal cardinality is 10 and the maximal diameter is 8. Their proof is computer-aided in part, and both bounds are achieved simultaneously. In this note, it is observed that the diameter bound 8 implies the m…
Rejoinder on slope heuristics for model selection in regression.
problem Model selection in least-squares fixed-design regression with biased models and general noise.
method Proves the slope heuristics works even with significant bias and computes expectations for Gaussian noise.
result The slope heuristics is valid even when models are biased and noise has a general dependence structure.
New slopes identified for torus knots, improving previous results.
problem Identifying characterizing slopes for torus knots.
method Applying recent work on L-space surgeries, improving previous bounds.
result Every nontrivial L-space slope of T5,2 is characterizing for T5,2. New research shows that many slopes are characterizing for satellite knots.
problem Characterizing slopes for satellite knots.
method Detailed examination of the JSJ decomposition of a surgery along a knot, combined with other authors' constraints on surgery slopes.
result Many non-integral slopes are characterizing for composite knots.
We explicitly compute the limiting gap distribution for slopes of saddle connections on the flat surface associated to the regular octagon with opposite sides identified. This is the first such computation where the Veech group of the translation surface has multiple cusps. We also show how to parametrize a Poincaré se…
A non-trivial slope r on a knot K in S3 is called a characterizing slope if whenever the result of r-surgery on a knot K′ is orientation preservingly homeomorphic to the result of r-surgery on K, then K′ is isotopic to K. Ni and Zhang ask: for any hyperbolic knot K, is a slope r=p/q with $|p| +…
For torus knots, non-integer slopes are characterizing.
problem Characterizing slopes for torus knots in 3D space.
method Analysis of p/q-surgery on torus knots using Heegaard Floer homology. result The set of characterizing slopes for torus knots contains all but finitely many non-integer slopes.
New knots found with specific slope properties.
problem Finding knots with non-integral boundary slopes.
method Kabaya's method for boundary slopes and layered solid torus construction.
result Existence of knots with boundary slopes of any positive denominator.
New rules reduce SLOPE model fitting time by screening out irrelevant variables.
problem Expensive tuning of regularization parameter in penalized regression models.
method Strong screening rules for group-based SLOPE models.
result Significant acceleration of fitting process for Group SLOPE and sparse-group SLOPE.
Paper analyzes SLOPE via AMP, providing an asymptotically sharp analysis and algorithmic approach.
problem Analyzing SLOPE's solution under Gaussian random designs.
method Developed an asymptotically exact characterization using approximate message passing.
result AMP iterates converge to the SLOPE solution in an asymptotic sense.
Let X be a norm curve in the SL(2,C)-character variety of a knot exterior M. Let t = || b || / || a || be the ratio of the Culler-Shalen norms of two distinct non-zero classes a, b in H_1(\partial M, Z). We demonstrate that either X has exactly two associated strict boundary slopes \pm t, or else there are strict bound…
Large knots have very varied boundary slopes.
problem Understanding the variability of boundary slopes in knots.
method Analyzing alternating knots and their boundary slopes.
result The ratio of boundary slope diameter to crossing number can be arbitrarily large.
This is the second of a series of papers which give a necessary and sufficient condition for two essential simple loops on a 2-bridge sphere in a 2-bridge link complement to be homotopic in the link complement. The first paper of the series treated the case of the 2-bridge torus links. In this paper, we treat the case …
Study Mazur doubles of knots and their relation to the Slope Conjecture.
problem Proving the Strong Slope Conjecture for Mazur doubles of knots.
method Analyzing Mazur doubles under certain hypotheses and using the Slope Conjecture.
result Mazur doubles of knots satisfy the Strong Slope Conjecture under certain conditions.
Let r_m and r_M be the least and greatest finite boundary slopes of a hyperbolic knot K in S^3. We show that any cyclic surgery slopes of K must lie in the interval (r_m - 1/2, r_M + 1/2).
This paper completes proofs for left orderable slopes of double twist knots.
problem Proving the left orderability of slopes for double twist knots.
method Continuous families of hyperbolic SL2(R) representations of knot groups.
result Any slope in (-4n, 4m) is a left orderable slope of C(2m+1, -2n).
The paper examines slopes and their norms in exceptional Dehn fillings.
problem Understanding slopes and norms in exceptional Dehn fillings.
method Investigates the relationship between Euclidean length and Culler-Shalen norm on horotori.
result Establishes two inequalities between Euclidean length and Culler-Shalen norm.
A slope qp is called a characterizing slope for a given knot K0 in S3 if whenever the qp-surgery on a knot K in S3 is homeomorphic to the qp-surgery on K0 via an orientation preserving homeomorphism, then K=K0. In this paper we try to find characterizing slopes for torus knots $…
Efficient packages solve SLOPE problem in multiple languages.
problem Efficiently solving SLOPE problem for various data types.
method Hybrid coordinate descent algorithm for GLMs with multiple loss functions.
result Packages outperform existing SLOPE implementations in speed.
New invariant slope for links helps complete signature formula.
problem Signature formula for splice of links.
method Developed slope invariant and computed it using various methods.
result Established close relation to Conway polynomials and Kojima-Yamasaki η-function.