Periodic surfaces have a limited number of bending modes, equal to their membrane modes.
problem Understanding the limitations of bending modes in periodic surfaces.
method Analyzing deformation modes of periodic, piecewise smooth, simply connected surfaces.
result Effective membrane modes and bending modes are orthogonal, limiting the total number of modes to 3.
New solutions found for bending of flat surfaces and origami structures.
problem Understanding the energy-efficient bending modes of origami tessellations and corrugated shells.
method Direct construction of closed-form solutions for surfaces of translation.
result Three inextensional modes identified for surfaces of translation, including stretching, bending, and twisting.
Characterizes neutral deformation modes of minimal surfaces.
problem Understanding the energy content of deformation modes of minimal surfaces.
method Analyzes the energy content of stretching, drilling, and bending modes of minimal surfaces.
result All isometries of a minimal surface are globally neutral and give rise to soft elasticity.
Study finds how periodic surfaces can bend without stretching.
problem Understanding isometric deformations of periodic surfaces.
method Characterization of isometric deformations using a constraint derived from Gauss theorem.
result Relates surface stretching to bending and twisting.
New geometric theory explains nonuniform origami responses.
problem Understanding nonuniform responses in origami sheets.
method Purely geometric continuum theory capturing nonuniform, nonlinear response.
result Three modes govern nonuniform response, varying smoothly across the sheet.
Study explores kinematics of surfaces under metric restrictions.
problem Understanding the kinematics of surfaces under metric constraints.
method Analyzed three energy contents: stretching, drilling, and bending.
result Metric restrictions can hinder the elastic response of a shell.
Study on bending knots and energy changes in 3D space.
problem Understanding energy changes in knots under small deformations.
method Analyzes infinitesimal bending of knots and energy changes using Willmore and Mobius energies.
result Changes in energy under small deformations of knots have been quantified.
Proves the bending map is proper for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Properness of the bending map in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Analyzes geometric properties and isotopy classes of homeomorphisms.
result Proving the bending map is proper for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Minimal surfaces can be transformed into others with unchanged bending content.
problem Understanding the deformation properties of minimal surfaces.
method Refined polar decomposition theorem to identify bending-neutral deformations.
result Every minimal surface can be transformed into another by a bending-neutral deformation.
The study explores isometric deformations of surfaces of translation.
problem Determine the ways surfaces of translation bend isometrically.
method Analyzes existence conditions and provides closed-form expressions for infinitesimal and finite bendings of surfaces of translation.
result Surfaces of translation admit various infinitesimal and finite bendings, including purely torsional and torsion-free.
Study bends 2D surfaces in 3D space using special equations.
problem Investigate infinitesimal bendings of 2D surfaces in 3D space.
method Use Bers-Vekua type equations and systems of differential equations with periodic coefficients.
result Construct bending fields for specific classes of 2D surfaces.
We examine the dependence of the deformation obtained by bending quasi-Fuchsian structures on the bending lamination. We show that when we consider bending quasi-Fuchsian structures on a closed surface, the conditions obtained by Epstein and Marden to relate weak convergence of arbitrary laminations to the convergence …
Study on bending deformations in hyperbolic manifolds, generalizing Johnson and Millson's work.
problem Understanding infinitesimal deformations in branched bending complexes.
method Defining branched bending deformations, giving lower bounds, and constructing examples.
result Lower bounds on the dimension of deformation spaces and examples of specific deformations.
A generalization of the Euler-Plateau problem to account for the energy contribution due to twisting of the bounding loop is proposed. Euler-Lagrange equations are derived in a parameterized setting and a bifurcation analysis is performed. A pair of dimensionless parameters govern bifurcations from a flat, circular gro…
Generalizes existence of bending laminations for Kleinian groups.
problem Existence of bending laminations for Kleinian surface groups.
method Generalization of Bonahon and Otal's proof to include geometrically infinite groups.
result Compactness of Kleinian groups realizing specific laminations.
The paper bends Riemannian manifolds to achieve metrics with negative Ricci curvature.
problem Achieving metrics with negative Ricci curvature on closed Riemannian manifolds.
method Solving a fully nonlinear equation to conformally bend the manifold.
result Metrics of quasi-negative Ricci curvature are conformal to metrics with negative Ricci curvature.
Study on elastic curves with variable stiffness, derived from bending energy.
problem Modeling elastic wires with varying thickness.
method Derive Euler-Lagrange equations for curves with variable bending stiffness.
result Characterizations of elastic curves with variable stiffness.
We prove Thurston's bending measure conjecture for quasifuchsian once punctured torus groups. The conjecture states that the bending measures of the two components of the convex hull boundary uniquely determine the group.
Frustration causes buckling-like behavior in tubular foldable mechanisms.
problem Kinematic coupling and geometric confinement in tubular foldable mechanisms.
method Analytical and numerical solutions of exact kinematics.
result Frustration propagates axially as if by buckling in tubular states.
Bounds projective structure norms by bending lamination lengths.
problem Bounding the L2-norm of projective structures. method Using the Thurston parameterization and Krasnov-Schlenker's W-volume theory. result Upper bounds on L2-norm of holomorphic quadratic differential by the length of bending lamination. This paper proves unique determination of certain non-quasi-Fuchsian manifolds by their end structure and bending lamination.
problem Unique determination of non-quasi-Fuchsian manifolds by their end structure and bending lamination.
method Analysis of the end structure (parabolic locus, ending laminations, conformal structures) and bending lamination.
result Non-quasi-Fuchsian manifolds are uniquely determined by their end structure and bending lamination.
Study surface subgroups acting on projective space, finding bending laminations and spheres.
problem Surface subgroups acting on RP3 with coaffine representations. method Stratification of convex core boundary, bending laminations, and analysis of holonomy.
result Projectivization of bending data space is a sphere of dimension 6g−7. Proposes a new network to improve nuclei segmentation in histopathology images.
problem Challenges in separating overlapped nuclei in histopathology images.
method Introduces a bending loss regularized network to minimize contour points with large curvatures.
result Outperforms six state-of-the-art approaches on five quantitative metrics.
The bending map of a hyperbolic 3-manifold maps a convex cocompact hyperbolic metric on a hyperbolic 3-manifold with boundary to its bending measured geodesic lamination. In the present paper we study the extension of this map to the space of geometrically finite hyperbolic metrics. We introduce a relationship on the s…
New bounds link Schwarzian derivative to hyperbolic geometry.
problem Quantify the relationship between Schwarzian derivative and hyperbolic geometry.
method Established explicit quantitative bounds between Schwarzian norm and bending norm.
result Explicit bounds on bending norm for univalent maps with small Schwarzian norm.
We investigate the elastic behavior of knotted loops of springy wire. To this end we minimize the classic bending energy Ebend=∫κ2 together with a small multiple of ropelength R=length/thickness in order to penalize selfintersection. Our main objective is to characterize elastic…
Twisted SL2C local systems on surfaces of finite type appear often in geometry and physics. Most of them arise geometrically as local systems of charts for pleated hyperbolic structures. Bonahon and Thurston's "shear-bend coordinates" parameterize these local systems of charts. On a surface …
Researchers find a surface with minimum bending energy for any genus and isoperimetric ratio.
problem Finding surfaces with minimum bending energy for given genus and isoperimetric ratio.
method Gluing catenoidal bridges to a singular solution of the Willmore equation on a punctured sphere.
result Existence of a surface with minimum bending energy for any genus and isoperimetric ratio.
We study deformations of complex hyperbolic surfaces which furnish the simplest examples of: (i) negatively curved Kähler manifolds and (ii) negatively curved Riemannian manifolds not having {\it constant} curvature. Although such complex surfaces may share the rigidity of quaternionic/octionic hyperbolic manifolds, ou…
A mapping bends Teichmüller spaces into character varieties, preserving symplectic structure.
problem Mapping Fricke-Teichmüller space to character variety of surface representations.
method Bending Fuchsian representations along a fixed measured lamination, proving equivariant symplectic embedding and properness.
result Continuous extension of bending map to Thurston boundary and geometric complexification.
Let M and N be compact smooth oriented Riemannian n-manifolds without boundary embedded in Rn+1. Several problems about minimal distortion bending and morphing of M to N are posed. Cost functionals that measure distortion due to stretching or bending produced by a diffeomorphism h:M→N are …
The Hopf fibration has inspired any number of geometric structures in physical systems, in particular in chiral liquid crystalline materials. Because the Hopf fibration lives on the three sphere, S3, some method of projection or distortion must be employed to realize textures in flat space. Here, we explore…
Critical trajectories in a sphere are found for a specific bending functional.
problem Finding closed trajectories in a sphere for a specific bending functional.
method Existence of infinitely many closed trajectories shown for a given Lagrange multiplier.
result Existence of closed trajectories dependent on a pair of relatively prime natural numbers.
Constructs minimal surfaces by gluing saddle towers with Scherk ends.
problem Embedding minimal surfaces with Scherk ends.
method Gluing saddle towers with prescribed phase differences, analyzing slight bendings.
result Correctly identifies scenarios where constructed surfaces are embedded.
A local description of the non-flat infinitesimally bendable Euclidean hypersurfaces was recently given by Dajczer and Vlachos \cite{DaVl}. From their classification, it follows that there is an abundance of infinitesimally bendable hypersurfaces that are not isometrically bendable. In this paper we consider the case o…
Geometric interpretation of Fock-Goncharov positivity and disk stabilization in symmetric space.
problem Understanding Fock-Goncharov positivity and its geometric implications.
method Geometric interpretation and bending deformations of Fuchsian representations.
result Stabilization of a uniform Finsler quasi-convex disk in the symmetric space.
A basic question in submanifold theory is whether a given isometric immersion f:Mn→Rn+p of a Riemannian manifold of dimension n≥3 into Euclidean space with low codimension p admits, locally or globally, a genuine infinitesimal bending. That is, if there exists a genuine smooth variation of f by…
The problem of minimal distortion bending of smooth compact embedded connected Riemannian n-manifolds M and N without boundary is made precise by defining a deformation energy functional Φ on the set of diffeomorphisms $\diff(M,N)$. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for Φ and determine smooth minimizers o…
Study complex hyperbolic structures on a disc orbibundle with 5 cone points.
problem Constructing complex hyperbolic structures on a disc orbibundle with vanishing Euler number.
method Analyzing involutions in PU(2,1) and using bending-connectedness. result A 4-dimensional bending-connected family of complex hyperbolic structures on a disc orbibundle.
We preset a computational study of bending models for the curvature elasticity of lipid bilayer membranes that are relevant for simulations of vesicles and red blood cells. We compute bending energy and forces on triangulated meshes and evaluate and extend four well established schemes for their approximation: Kantor a…
Paper develops a new method to analyze 3D tree-like objects.
problem Analyzing complex geometrical and topological variations in 3D tree-like objects.
method Extended SRVF representation and new metric for tree-shaped 3D objects.
result Captures full elasticity and topological variations of branches.
Suppose M_t is a smooth family of compact connected two dimensional submanifolds of Euclidean space E^3 without boundary varying isometrically in their induced Riemannian metrics. Then we show that the mean curvature integrals over M_t are constant. It is unknown whether there are nontrivial such bendings. The estimate…
Optimal flat ribbons can be created from nonplanar curves with minimal energy.
problem Finding the optimal shape of flat ribbons from nonplanar curves.
method Direct method of the calculus of variations.
result Optimal flat ribbons can be created with minimal bending energy, but they may have isolated planar points.
Holographic principle matches deformed Liouville theory action.
problem Matching deformed Liouville theory action in holography.
method Developed a holographic scheme involving bending energy.
result Perfect match between deformed theory actions on field and gravity sides.
In this paper we show that bending a finite volume hyperbolic d-manifold M along a totally geodesic hypersurface Σ results in a properly convex projective structure on M with finite volume. We also discuss various geometric properties of bent manifolds and algebraic properties of their fundamental groups. We th…
We introduce a notion of generalized Willmore functionals motivated by the Hawking energy of General Relativity and bending energies of membranes. An example of a bending energy is discussed in detail. Using results of Y. Chen and J. Li, we present a compactness result for branched, immersed, haunted, stratified surfac…
Classifies pinned p-elasticae and finds unique optimality exponents.
problem Classifying and understanding p-elasticae under pinned boundary conditions. method Classification and analysis of p-elasticae, proving uniqueness and existence. result Discovery of a unique exponent p≃1.5728 for full optimality. We study limits of quasifuchsian groups for which the bending measures on the convex hull boundary tend to zero, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the limit group to exist and be Fuchsian. As an application we complete the proof of a conjecture made in \cite{S1}, that the closure of pleating varieties for …