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Let M_1 and M_2 be compact, orientable 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary, and M the manifold obtained by gluing with a homeomorphism $φ:\bdy M_1 \to \bdy M_2$. We analyze the relationship between the sets of low genus Heegaard splittings of M_1, M_2, and M, assuming the map φis "sufficiently complicated." This a…
We describe the fundamental groups of ordered and unordered k point sets in complex projective space of dimension n generating a projective subspace of dimension i. We apply these to study connectivity of more complicated configurations of points.
We introduce a new operation, double point surgery, on immersed surfaces in a 4-manifold, and use it to construct knotted configurations of surfaces in many 4-manifolds. Taking branched covers, we produce smoothly exotic actions of Z/m x Z/n on simply connected 4-manifolds with complicated fixed-point sets.
We construct families of manifolds that have pairs of genus g Heegaard splittings that must be stabilized roughly g times to become equivalent. We also show that when two unstabilized, boundary-unstabilized Heegaard splittings are amalgamated by a "sufficiently complicated" map, the resulting splitting is unstabili…
Let M be a 3-manifold with torus boundary components T1 and T2. Let φ:T1→T2 be a homeomorphism, Mφ the manifold obtained from M by gluing T1 to T2 via the map φ, and T the image of T1 in Mφ. We show that if φ is "sufficiently complicated" then any incompressible or strongly …
We sharply characterize the performance of different penalization schemes for the problem of selecting the relevant variables in the multi-task setting. Previous work focuses on the regression problem where conditions on the design matrix complicate the analysis. A clearer and simpler picture emerges by studying the No…
Fast and efficient homology algorithms are in demand in the applied sciences for analyzing solid materials and proteins, processing digital imaging data, or pattern classification among others. Recent advances employ discrete Morse theory as a preprocessor. Research in this area has lead to the need to find complicated…
EI-MTD defends edge intelligence against adversarial attacks with dynamic scheduling.
problem Adversarial attacks on edge intelligence models.
method EI-MTD uses differential knowledge distillation to create robust member models and a dynamic scheduling policy based on a Bayesian Stackelberg game.
result EI-MTD effectively protects edge intelligence from black-box adversarial attacks.
Our goal is to build robust optimization problems for making decisions based on complex data from the past. In robust optimization (RO) generally, the goal is to create a policy for decision-making that is robust to our uncertainty about the future. In particular, we want our policy to best handle the the worst possibl…
Let M_1 and M_2 be compact, orientable 3-manifolds, and M the manifold obtained by gluing some component F of \bdy M_1 to some component of \bdy M_2 by a homeomorphism φ. We show that when φis "sufficiently complicated" then (1) the amalgamation of low genus, unstabilized, boundary-unstabilized Heegaard splittings of M…
Motivated by the algorithmic study of 3-dimensional manifolds, we explore the structural relationship between the JSJ decomposition of a given 3-manifold and its triangulations. Building on work of Bachman, Derby-Talbot and Sedgwick, we show that a "sufficiently complicated" JSJ decomposition of a 3-manifold enforces a…
We present a short proof of the following Pontryagin theorem, whose original proof was complicated and has never been published in details: {\bf Theorem.} Let M be a connected oriented closed smooth 3-manifold. Let L1(M) be the set of framed links in M up to a framed cobordism. Let °:L1(M)→H1(M;Z) be the…
Based on recent work by Futer, Kalfagianni and Purcell, we prove that the volume of sufficiently complicated positive braid links is proportional to the signature defect Δσ=2g−σ.