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For any compact, connected, orientable, finite-type surface with marked points other than the sphere with three marked points, we construct a finite rigid set of its arc complex: a finite simplicial subcomplex of its arc complex such that any locally injective map of this set into the arc complex of another surface wit…

Graph conditions ensure matching arc complexes are connected and hyperbolic.

The flip graph and arc complex of a surface are shown to have finite rigidity.

Research shows arc complex is not quasi-isometric to sphere complex.

A classical combinatorial fact is that the simplicial complex consisting of disjointly embedded chords in a convex planar polygon is a sphere. For any surface F with non-empty boundary, there is an analogous complex Arc(F) consisting of suitable equivalence classes of arcs in F connecting its boundary components. The m…

Homotopy types of curve and arc complexes are studied.

Researchers prove the arc complexes of decorated hyperbolic polygons are balls.

We prove that each injective simplicial map from the arc complex of a compact, connected, nonorientable surface with nonempty boundary to itself is induced by a homeomorphism of the surface. We also prove that the automorphism group of the arc complex is isomorphic to the quotient of the mapping class group of the surf…

In this paper, we prove that each injective simplicial map of the arc complex of a compact, connected, orientable surface with nonempty boundary is induced by a homeomorphism of the surface. We deduce, from this result, that the group of automorphisms of the arc complex is naturally isomorphic to the extended mapping c…

Generates special homeomorphisms for complex surfaces.

Gordian complex of knots was defined by Hirasawa and Uchida as the simplicial complex whose vertices are knot isotopy classes in $\mathbb{S}^3$. Later Horiuchi and Ohyama defined Gordian complex of virtual knots using $v$-move and forbidden moves. In this paper we discuss Gordian complex of knots by region crossing cha…

Researchers describe the Gromov boundary of a graph related to surfaces.

This paper studies deformations of hyperbolic surfaces with special structures.

Shellability of a simplicial complex has many useful structural implications. In particular, it was shown by Danaraj and Klee that every shellable pseudo-manifold is a PL-sphere. The purpose of this paper is to prove the shellability of the quasi-arc complex of the Möbius strip. Along the way we provide elementary proo…

Solve arc diagrams on surfaces via branched covers.

We study the arc complex of a surface with marked points in the interior and on the boundary. We prove that the isomorphism type of the arc complex determines the topology of the underlying surface, and that in all but a few cases every automorphism is induced by a homeomorphism of the surface. As an application we ded…

New simplicial complex for infinite-type surfaces shows graph properties.

We show that if a Heegaard splitting is obtained by gluing a splitting of Hempel distance at least 4 and the genus-1 splitting of $S^2 \times S^1$, then the Goeritz group of the splitting is finitely generated. To show this, we first provide a sufficient condition for a full subcomplex of the arc complex for a compact …

We prove that for every analytic curve in the complex plane, Euclidean and spherical arc-lengths are global conformal parameters. We also prove that for any analytic curve in the hyperbolic plane, hyperbolic arc-length is also a global parameter. We generalize some of these results to the case of analytic curves in Euc…

Shifts are not type-preserving on surface graphs.

We show that the arc graph of $S_g^1$ is a coarse Lipschitz retract of the free splitting complex of $F_{2g}$. We also show that the arc and curve graph of $S_g^1$ is a coarse Lipschitz retract of both the cyclic splitting graph of $F_{2g}$ and the maximally cyclic splitting graph of $F_{2g}$.

In this paper, we investigate a family of graphs associated to collections of arcs on surfaces. These {\it multiarc graphs} naturally interpolate between arc graphs and flip graphs, both well studied objects in low dimensional geometry and topology. We show a number of rigidity results, namely showing that, under certa…

ARC algorithm optimizes dynamic pricing with correlated observations.

The study shows that certain complex geometries are hyperbolic and contractible but fail to be CAT(0).

We study the connections between subsurface projections in curve and arc complexes in fibered 3-manifolds and Agol's veering triangulation. The main theme is that large-distance subsurfaces in fibers are associated to large simplicial regions in the veering triangulation, and this correspondence holds uniformly for all…

Let $D_n$ be the $n$-punctured disk. We prove that a family of essential simple arcs starting and ending at the boundary and pairwise intersecting at most twice is of size at most $\binom{n+1}{3}$. On the way, we also show that any nontrivial square complex homeomorphic to a disk whose hyperplanes are simple arcs inter…

Study shows how lengths of geodesic arcs determine linking number of Legendrian knots.

A knot K in 1-bridge position with respect to a genus-g Heegaard surface in a 3-manifold can be moved by isotopy through knots in 1-bridge position until it lies in a union of n parallel genus-g surfaces tubed together by n-1 straight tubes, with K intersecting each tube in two arcs connecting the ends. We prove that t…

We study strip deformations of convex cocompact hyperbolic surfaces, defined by inserting hyperbolic strips along a collection of disjoint geodesic arcs properly embedded in the surface. We prove that any deformation of the surface that uniformly lengthens all closed geodesics can be realized as a strip deformation, in…

Study strip deformations of hyperbolic polygons with decorated vertices.

We prove the existence of complete minimal surfaces of genus g>1 which minimize the total curvature for their genus. Our method is first to identify this (Weierstrass high dimensional period) problem with the problem of finding a particular type of polygonal arc in the complex domain: the arc alternates between horizon…

In this paper, we formulate a new local move on virtual knot diagram, called arc shift move. Further, we extend it to another local move called region arc shift defined on a region of a virtual knot diagram. We establish that these arc shift and region arc shift moves are unknotting operations by showing that any virtu…

The paper describes topological properties of arcs and crossings in knot theory.

We study the {\it arc and curve} complex $AC(S)$ of an oriented connected surface $S$ of finite type with punctures. We show that if the surface is not a sphere with one, two or three punctures nor a torus with one puncture, then the simplicial automorphism group of $AC(S)$ coincides with the natural image of the exten…

Study on unknotting twisted knots using arc shift and region arc shift moves.

It is shown that the projection image of an oriented spatial arc to any oriented plane is approximated by a unique arc diagram (up to isomorphic arc diagrams) determined from the spatial arc and the projection. In a separated paper, the knotting probability of an arc diagram is defined as an invariant under isomorphic …

The paper studies parabolic representations of 2-bridge links using symplectic quandles.

NT probability measures knotting in 3D arc systems.

Non-trivialization probability of arc system in 3D space

Self-affine arcs without inner weak separation are parabolic segments.

We introduce the polygonalisation complex of a surface, a cube complex whose vertices correspond to polygonalisations. This is a geometric model for the mapping class group and it is motivated by works of Harer, Mosher and Penner. Using properties of the flip graph, we show that the midcubes in the polygonalisation com…

The study of smoothing arcs and curves on surfaces, proving tautness and arc length spectrum properties.

Minimal grid diagrams for 15,735 knots with 14 crossings and arc index 14.

Counts arcs in surfaces, proving convergence of geodesic currents.

This paper calculates stick numbers for rail arcs and knot classes.

Study arcs on surfaces, focusing on topological aspects and group actions.

Listed 19,513 prime knots with arc index 12-16.

In this note we introduce the (homologically essential) arc complex of a surface as a tool for studying properties of open book decompositions and contact structures. After characterizing destabilizability in terms of the essential translation distance of the monodromy of an open book we given an application of this re…