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The paper explores geodesics on doubled polygons and their existence.

Study on minimizing closed geodesics on polygons and disks.

Study on connection points on double regular polygons, providing coordinates and proving non-connection points.

Geodesic nets on flat spheres are studied using Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

The study connects polygon areas and projective structures in 3D space.

A longstanding question of Gromov asks whether every one-ended word-hyperbolic group contains a subgroup isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic surface. An infinite family of word-hyperbolic groups can be obtained by taking doubles of free groups amalgamated along words that are not proper powers. W…

Gordon and Wilton recently proved that the double D of a free group F amalgamated along a cyclic subgroup C of F contains a surface group if a generator w of C satisfies a certain 3-manifold theoretic condition, called virtually geometricity. Wilton and the author defined the polygonality of w which also guarantees the…

Given a link in the three-sphere, Ozsváth and Szabó showed that there is a spectral sequence starting at the Khovanov homology of the link and converging to the Heegaard Floer homology of its branched double cover. The aim of this paper is to explicitly calculate this spectral sequence in terms of bordered Floer homolo…

Researchers found all embeddings of Kuratowski graphs on a double torus.

The evolute of a smooth curve in an m-dimensional Euclidean space is the locus of centers of its osculating spheres, and the evolute of a spatial polygon is the polygon whose consecutive vertices are the centers of the spheres through the consecutive (m+1)-tuples of vertices of the original polygon. We study the iterat…

Defines Vassiliev complexity measures for open and closed curves in 3D space.

Cycloids, hipocycloids and epicycloids have an often forgotten common property: they are homothetic to their evolutes. But what if use convex symmetric polygons as unit balls, can we define evolutes and cycloids which are genuinely discrete? Indeed, we can! We define discrete cycloids as eigenvectors of a discrete doub…

We borrow a classical construction from the study of rational billiards in dynamical systems known as the "unfolding construction" and show that it can be used to study the automorphism group of a Platonic surface. More precisely, the monodromy group, or deck group in this case, associated to the cover of a regular pol…

Estimates KVol on surfaces with geometric constraints.

Given a link in the three-sphere, Z. Szabó and the second author constructed a spectral sequence starting at the Khovanov homology of the link and converging to the Heegaard Floer homology of its branched double-cover. The aim of this paper and its sequel is to explicitly calculate this spectral sequence, using bordere…

We study hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces with faces isometric to regular hyperbolic polygons satisfying that the total angles at vertices are at least $2π.$ The combinatorial information of these surfaces is shown to be identified with that of Euclidean polyhedral surfaces with negative combinatorial curvature everywher…

New methods classify convex lattice polygons for affine dimers.

Ethereum upgrades increased TPS and lowered fees, with L2s surpassing Solana in 2029.

The pentagram map's limit point is related to infinitesimal perturbations of polygons.

General area-preserving motion of polygonal curves is formulated as a system of ODEs. Solution polygonal curves belong to a prescribed polygonal class, which is similar to the admissible class used in the crystalline curvature flow. The ODEs are discretized implicitly in time keeping a given constant area speed while s…

Study finds finitely many non-congruent polygonal domains with same Steklov spectrum.

Study of polygon spaces, characterizing critical points of area function.

New property: polygons have a fixed dimension regardless of ambient space dimensions.

The paper classifies vertices in planar polygons formed by convex domains.

Simple rectilinear polygons (i.e. rectilinear polygons without holes or cutpoints) can be regarded as finite rectangular cell complexes coordinatized by two finite dendrons. The intrinsic $l_1$-metric is thus inherited from the product of the two finite dendrons via an isometric embedding. The rectangular cell complexe…

The pentagram map takes a planar polygon $P$ to a polygon $P'$ whose vertices are the intersection points of consecutive shortest diagonals of $P$. This map is known to interact nicely with Poncelet polygons, i.e. polygons which are simultaneously inscribed in a conic and circumscribed about a conic. A theorem of R. Sc…

In this paper, we discuss centroaffine geometry of polygons in $3$-space. For a polygon $X$ that is locally convex with respect to an origin together with a transversal vector field $U$, we define the centroaffine dual pair $(Y,V)$ similarly to [6]. We prove that vertices of $(X,U)$ correspond to flattening points for …

We establish a fundamental connection between smooth and polygonal knot energies, showing that the Minimum Distance Energy for polygons inscribed in a smooth knot converges to the Moebius Energy of the smooth knot as the polygons converge to the smooth knot. However, the polygons must converge in a ``nice'' way, and th…

Optimal Reeb graphs identified for polygon decomposition.

Study on Poncelet polygons' centers and circumcenters in various geometries.

The study proves analogues of the discrete isoperimetric inequality in hyperbolic geometry.

New formula for spherical polygon area via prequantization.

The map S transforms polygon sides, and almost no convex polygons remain convex.

In this article we investigate a family of nonlinear evolutions of polygons in the plane called the $β$-polygon flow and obtain some results analogous to results for the smooth curve shortening flow: (1) any planar polygon shrinks to a point and (2) a regular polygon with five or more vertices is asymptotically stable …

The study proves a discrete Blaschke theorem for convex polygons in 2-dimensional space forms.

Consider a convex polygon P in the plane, and denote by U a homothetical copy of the vector sum of P and (-P). Then the polygon U, as unit ball, induces a norm such that, with respect to this norm, P has constant Minkowskian width. We define notions like Minkowskian curvature, evolutes and involutes for polygons of con…

Investigates dual foliations of polygon spaces based on area and perimeter.

Smooth knots with odd Conway polynomial terms have inscribed trefoils.

Maximal distortion between geodesic and Euclidean diameters in polygonal domains is studied.

Characterizes polygonal surfaces in pseudo-hyperbolic spaces.

Solitons are special polygon midpoints under affine transformations.

Short proof for ideal polygons with near optimal orthogeodesic decomposition.

We study polygonal analogues of several moving boundary problems and their time discretization which preserves the constant area speed property. We establish various polygonal analogues of geometric formulas for moving boundaries and make use of the geometric formulas for our numerical scheme and its analysis of genera…

In this paper, we study the symplectic volume of the moduli space of polygons by using Witten's formula. We propose to use this volume as a measure for the flexibility of a polygon with fixed side-lengths. The main result of our is that among all the Spherical and Euclidean polygons with fixed perimeter the regular one…

Fast algorithm samples confined polygons efficiently.

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

Classifies tilings of hyperbolic plane by regular polygons.

We describe the first-order variations of the angles of Euclidean, spherical or hyperbolic polygons under infinitesimal deformations such that the lengths of the edges do not change. Using this description, we introduce a vector-valued quadratic invariant $b$ on the space of those isometric deformations which, for conv…