Compute Bredon homology for a specific type of Artin groups.
problem Calculate Bredon homology for Artin groups of dihedral type.
method Compute Bredon homology groups of the classifying space for virtually cyclic subgroups with K-theory coefficients.
result Computed Bredon homology groups for Artin groups of dihedral type.
Homotopy classification for certain 4-manifolds with dihedral fundamental groups.
problem Classifying the homotopy types of specific 4-manifolds with dihedral fundamental groups.
method Using quadratic 2-type and combining with results from Hambleton-Kreck and Bauer.
result Homotopy types of finite oriented Poincaré 4-complexes are determined by their quadratic 2-type when fundamental group is dihedral.
Study dihedral spherical surfaces and their foliations.
problem Characterize dihedral spherical surfaces and their foliations.
method Define and analyze dihedral surfaces and their foliations, introduce geometric decompositions and deformations.
result Determine the dimension of the moduli space for dihedral surfaces.
The study finds all possible 3D polytopes in Riemannian 3-manifolds with positive scalar curvature.
problem Understanding the combinatorial types of 3D polytopes in specific Riemannian manifolds.
method Analysis of mean curvature convex Riemannian polyhedra with non-obtuse dihedral angles in positive scalar curvature 3-manifolds.
result Determination of combinatorial types of 3D simple convex polytopes.
Symmetric elastic knots are found for certain classes with dihedral symmetry.
problem Finding elastic knots with specific symmetries.
method Minimizing bending energy under dihedral symmetry constraints.
result Existence of dihedral symmetric elastic knots, including a figure-eight union for the trefoil.
We give an original analytic construction of hyperkahler ALF metrics on some ALE spaces of dihedral type, namely the spaces corresponding to minimal resolutions of Kleinian quotients relative to some binary dihedral group.
Classifies symmetries of knots using group actions and orthogonal representation theory.
problem Classifying symmetries of knots in 3-sphere.
method Using geometrization and orthogonal representation theory, constructing examples, and distinguishing symmetries.
result Cyclic and dihedral families of symmetries of prime knots and composite knots.
Polyhedra rigidity theorem in hyperbolic space proved.
problem Dihedral rigidity conjecture in hyperbolic 3-space.
method Comparison theorem for polyhedra in a 3-manifold with scalar curvature bounded below.
result Confirms Gromov dihedral rigidity conjecture in hyperbolic 3-space.
Counterexample disproves key index computation in Gromov's conjecture paper.
problem Disproving an index computation in Gromov's conjecture paper.
method Constructing a counterexample to an index computation.
result Counterexample disproves the main result of the paper.
The article explores symmetric maps on surfaces, focusing on semi-equivelar maps.
problem Identifying and classifying semi-equivelar maps on surfaces with specific Euler characteristics.
method Analyzing automorphisms and symmetry groups of maps on higher genus surfaces.
result There are at least 39 types of semi-equivelar maps on surfaces with Euler characteristic -2m, m ≥ 2, with symmetry groups isomorphic to dihedral or cyclic groups.
Spinors prove rigidity for polyhedral spacetime data.
problem Rigidity of polyhedral spacetime data sets.
method Extending rigidity analysis from spacetime positive mass theorem.
result Dihedral rigidity connects mass theorem, trapped surfaces.
New index theory proves Gromov's dihedral conjectures.
problem Comparisons and rigidity of scalar curvatures, mean curvatures, and dihedral angles.
method Developed a new index theory for manifolds with polyhedral boundary.
result Proved Gromov's dihedral extremality and rigidity conjectures.
Characterizes conical angles for metrics with dihedral symmetry.
problem Understanding metrics with specific symmetry properties.
method Using recent results on local invariants of quadratic differentials.
result Complete characterization of conical angles for dihedral spherical metrics.
The paper introduces two-tone colorings for links and shows conditions for surjective dihedral representations.
problem The challenge is to find conditions for links to admit surjective dihedral representations.
method The method involves introducing two-tone colorings and providing conditions for the link groups to admit such representations.
result Any link with at least 3 components admits a surjective homomorphism to the dihedral group of arbitrary degree.
We give a unified description of tetrahedra with lightlike faces in 3d anti-de Sitter, de Sitter and Minkowski spaces and of their duals in 3d anti-de Sitter, hyperbolic and half-pipe spaces. We show that both types of tetrahedra are determined by a generalized cross-ratio with values in a commutative 2d real algebra t…
In this work we study the connection between the existence of finite dihedral covers of the projective plane ramified along an algebraic curve C, infinite dihedral covers, and pencils of curves containing C.
Smooth approximations bound dihedral angles of convex polytopes.
problem Bounding dihedral angles of convex polytopes.
method Approximating polytopes with smooth hypersurfaces and using geometric relations.
result Established lower bounds on dihedral angles.
The paper proves a spacetime version of dihedral rigidity for cubes in 3D spacetime.
problem Proving dihedral rigidity for cubic initial data sets in 3D spacetime.
method By studying the level sets of spacetime harmonic functions and extending previous work on dihedral rigidity for prisms in hyperbolic space.
result The paper proves dihedral rigidity for cubes in 3D spacetime, extending previous results.
Study on geodesics and dihedral groups in lattices.
problem Growth and distribution of conjugacy classes of dihedral subgroups.
method Generalizing earlier work on reciprocal geodesics, proving equidistribution.
result Reciprocal geodesics are equidistributed in the unit tangent bundle.
The Stoker problem, first formulated in 1968, consists in understanding to what extent a convex polyhedron is determined by its dihedral angles. By means of the double construction, this problem is intimately related to rigidity issues for 3-dimensional cone-manifolds. In a former paper, two such rigidity results were …
We describe a simple locally CAT(0) classifying space for extra extra large type Artin groups (with all labels at least 5). Furthermore, when the Artin group is not dihedral, we describe a rank 1 periodic geodesic, thus proving that extra large type Artin groups are acylindrically hyperbolic. Together with Property RD …
Minimal surfaces with dihedral symmetry are studied as angles converge to zero.
problem Understanding minimal surfaces with dihedral symmetry as angles approach zero.
method Analyzing the limit of minimal surfaces in wedges with varying angles and using the implicit function theorem.
result New minimal surfaces are discovered and existence proofs are simplified.
Study of quandle coloring quivers with dihedral quandles.
problem Link invariants and their enhancements using quandles.
method Introduced shadow quandle coloring quivers and cocycle quivers, studied equivalence with quandle coloring numbers and shadow quandle cocycle invariants.
result Equivalence of quandle coloring quivers with quandle coloring numbers and shadow quandle cocycle quivers with shadow quandle cocycle invariants for specific dihedral quandles.
Dihedral linking invariant uses knot colorings to distinguish knots.
problem Distinguishing knots using knot colorings and linking numbers.
method Algorithm for computing linking numbers in dihedral branched covers.
result The dihedral linking invariant distinguishes more than 98% of prime knot pairs.
Classifies orbits of Hurwitz actions on dihedral quandles.
problem Classifying orbits of Hurwitz actions on dihedral quandles.
method Introduced three computable invariants to classify orbits.
result Complete classification of orbits under Hurwitz action.
The study characterizes torus links' coloring quivers using dihedral quandles.
problem Characterizing the structure of coloring quivers for torus links.
method Exhaustively determining all possible numbers of colorings and their interconnections.
result The quiver structure varies based on the number of colorings.
In this article, we prove a theorem comparing the dihedral angles of simplices in the hyperbolic, spherical and Euclidean geometries.
The paper creates exotic 4-manifold structures with a specific group.
problem Producing exotic structures on 4-manifolds with infinite dihedral fundamental group.
method Using specific conditions on b2+ and b2−, the paper constructs these structures. result The existence of infinite exotic structures on 4-manifolds with infinite dihedral fundamental group.
The study sets limits on dihedral angles of large hyperbolic polyhedra.
problem Establishing bounds on dihedral angles of hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra.
method Developed a constructive procedure for Coxeter polyhedra with prescribed dihedral angles.
result Classification of ADEG-polyhedra with specific dihedral angles and no disjoint facets.
Researchers found the Wigner derivative and its inverse are equal for spherical tetrahedra.
problem Computing the relationship between dihedral angles and edge lengths in tetrahedra.
method Computed the Wigner derivative and its inverse for spherical tetrahedra.
result The Wigner derivative and its inverse are equal for spherical tetrahedra.
The paper proves rigidity for submanifolds in warped product manifolds.
problem Rigidity of submanifolds in warped product manifolds.
method Dihedral extremality and rigidity theorem for submanifolds with polyhedral boundary.
result Dihedral rigidity results for hyperbolic polyhedra in flat warped product spaces.
Given a closed oriented PL four-manifold X and a closed surface B embedded in X with isolated cone singularities, we give a formula for the signature of an irregular dihedral cover of X branched along B. For X simply-connected, we deduce a necessary condition on the intersection form of a simply-connected i…
Study lengths of 3-cocycles for specific quandles, finding knot properties.
problem Determining lengths of 3-cocycles for 7-dihedral and octahedral quandles.
method Analyzing specific quandles to find lengths of 3-cocycles.
result 2-twist-spun 52-knot and 4-twist-spun trefoil have triple point number eight. We prove that, both in the hyperbolic and spherical 3-spaces, there exist nonconvex compact boundary-free polyhedral surfaces without selfintersections which admit nontrivial continuous deformations preserving all dihedral angles and study properties of such polyhedral surfaces. In particular, we prove that the volume …
Quandle coloring detects causality in spacetime links.
problem Detecting causality in spacetime links using quandle colorings.
method Conjugation quandle of dihedral group D5 combined with Alexander-Conway polynomial.
result The conjugation quandle over D5 distinguishes causally related and unrelated events.
We describe the deformation space of a solid torus with boundary modelled on convex ideal hyperbolic polyhedra. This deformation space is given by natural Gauss--Bonnet type inequalities on the dihedral angles. The result extends to solid tori with an arbitrary conical singularity along the core. Our method is to decom…
We show that a finite dihedral group does not act pseudofreely and locally linearly on a 2k-dimensional sphere, if k > 1. This answers a question of R. S. Kulkarni from 1982.
Quandles with involutions that satisfy certain conditions, called good involutions, can be used to color non-orientable surface-knots. We use subgroups of signed permutation matrices to construct non-trivial good involutions on extensions of odd order dihedral quandles. For the smallest example of order 6 that is an ex…
We show that every trivial 3-strand braid diagram contains a disk, defined as a ribbon ending in opposed crossings. Under a convenient algebraic form, the result extends to every Artin--Tits group of dihedral type, but it fails to extend to braids with 4 strands and more. The proof uses a partition of the Cayley graph …
We prove a generalized version of the Strong Atiyah Conjecture for the infinite dihedral group W, replacing the group von Neumann algebra NW with the Hecke-von Neumann algebra N_qW.
We show in this paper that the set of irreducible components of the family of Galois coverings of P^1_C with Galois group isomorphic to D_n is in bijection with the set of possible numerical types. In this special case the numerical type is the equivalence class (for automorphisms of D_n) of the function which to each …
A quandle coloring obstruction prevents a specific link from being ribbon concordant.
problem Obstructing a specific link from being ribbon concordant.
method Symmetric dihedral quandle coloring analysis.
result A symmetric dihedral quandle of order 4 cannot color a specific surface-link, obstructing ribbon concordance.
Given a combinatorial description C of a polyhedron having E edges, the space of dihedral angles of all compact hyperbolic polyhedra that realize C is generally not a convex subset of RE \cite{DIAZ}. If C has five or more faces, Andreev's Theorem states that the corresponding space of dihedral angle…
We prove the following comparison theorem for metrics with nonnegative scalar curvature, also known as the dihedral rigidity conjecture by Gromov: for n≤7, if an n-dimensional prism has nonnegative scalar curvature and weakly mean convex faces, then its dihedral angle cannot be everywhere not larger than its Euc…
We use controlled topology applied to the action of the infinite dihedral group on a partially compactified plane and deduce two consequences for algebraic K-theory. The first is that the family in the K-theoretic Farrell-Jones conjecture can be reduced to only those virtually cyclic groups which admit a surjection wit…
The paper details folding of branched covers of the 3-sphere over knots.
problem Understanding folding of branched covers of the 3-sphere over knots.
method Presenting detailed foldings of dihedral covers of the 3-sphere branched over torus knots.
result Detailed foldings of dihedral covers of the 3-sphere branched over torus knots are presented.
Polyhedra's structure is uniquely defined by edge lengths and dihedral angles, even nonconvex.
problem Determining the structure of polyhedra based on edge lengths and dihedral angles.
method Proved rigidity under specific conditions in Euclidean, hyperbolic, and spherical geometries.
result Polyhedra's structure is uniquely defined by edge lengths and dihedral angles, even nonconvex.
On the growth rates of cofinite 3-dimensional hyperbolic Coxeter groups whose dihedral angles are of the form mπ for m=2,3,4,5,6math.GT We study arithmetic properties of the growth rates of cofinite 3-dimensional hyperbolic Coxeter groups whose dihedral angles are of the form mπ for m=2,3,4,5,6 and show that the growth rates are always Perron numbers.