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Study on shortest arcs on hyperbolic surfaces with boundary.
Homotopy types of curve and arc complexes are studied.
Proves prime theta-curves for knots on minimal genus surfaces.
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…
The distortion of a curve measures the maximum arc/chord length ratio. Gromov showed any closed curve has distortion at least pi/2 and asked about the distortion of knots. Here, we prove that any nontrivial tame knot has distortion at least 5pi/3; examples show that distortion under 7.16 suffices to build a trefoil kno…
New proof for knot state-sum formula using bijection between states.
Let be the -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 . On the way, we also show that any nontrivial square complex homeomorphic to a disk whose hyperplanes are simple arcs inter…
Proves constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics are very general.
We prove that on a punctured oriented surface with Euler characteristic chi < 0, the maximal cardinality of a set of essential simple arcs that are pairwise non-homotopic and intersecting at most once is 2|chi|(|chi|+1). This gives a cubic estimate in |chi| for a set of curves pairwise intersecting at most once on a cl…
The paper provides bounds for the ropelength of a link in terms of the crossing numbers of its split components. As in earlier papers, the bounds grow with the square of the crossing number; however, the constant involved is a substantial improvement on previous results. The proof depends essentially on writing links i…
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…
Uniform Closure Method and Bayes classifier perform similarly in classifying open knots.
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…
Bayesian structure learning is the NP-hard problem of discovering a Bayesian network that optimally represents a given set of training data. In this paper we study the computational worst-case complexity of exact Bayesian structure learning under graph theoretic restrictions on the super-structure. The super-structure …
Study conditions for curvature functions of closed planar curves.
New parameterization for -knots simplifies their study.
Two natural questions are answered in the negative: (1) If a space has the property that small nulhomotopic loops bound small nulhomotopies, then are loops which are limits of nulhomotopic loops themselves nulhomotopic? (2) Can adding arcs to a space cause an essential curve to become nulhomotopic? The answer to the fi…
We define a laminar branched surface to be a branched surface satisfying the following conditions: (1) Its horizontal boundary is incompressible; (2) there is no monogon; (3) there is no Reeb component; (4) there is no sink disk (after eliminating trivial bubbles in the branched surface). The first three conditions are…
We show that mapping class groups associated to all types of real algebraic curves are virtual duality groups. We also deduce some results about the orbifold homotopy groups of the moduli spaces of real algebraic curves. We achieve these results by defining a new complex associated to a not necessarily orientable surfa…
Checkerboard surfaces in alternating link complements are used frequently to determine information about the link. However, when many crossings are added to a single twist region of a link diagram, the geometry of the link complement stabilizes (approaches a geometric limit), but a corresponding checkerboard surface in…
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…
Homogeneous braids are visually prime, solving a Cromwell question.
Study on unknotting twisted knots using arc shift and region arc shift moves.
In a recent work "Arc-presentation of links: Monotonic simplification" Ivan Dynnikov showed that each rectangular diagram of the unknot, composite link, or split link can be monotonically simplified into a trivial, composite, or split diagram, respectively. The following natural question arises: Is it always possible t…
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 …
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.
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.
This paper calculates stick numbers for rail arcs and knot classes.
Counts arcs in surfaces, proving convergence of geodesic currents.
Study arcs on surfaces, focusing on topological aspects and group actions.
Listed 19,513 prime knots with arc index 12-16.
New geometric approach controls motion of a spinning sphere on a plane.
As a supplement to the authors' article "Prime knots with arc index up to 11 and an upper bound of arc index for non-alternating knots", to appear in the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, we present minimal arc presentations of the prime knots up to arc index 11.
The grand arc graph's asymptotic dimension is shown to be infinite.
The study counts arcs on hyperbolic surfaces, providing asymptotic growth formulas.
Study self-intersections of arcs on a pair of pants, proving natural number spectrum.
Solve arc diagrams on surfaces via branched covers.
Every knot can be embedded in the union of finitely many half planes with a common boundary line in such a way that the portion of the knot in each half plane is a properly embedded arc. The minimal number of such half planes is called the arc index of the knot. We have identified all prime knots with arc index up to 1…
The paper classifies virtual links using the arc shift operation.
Expanded Legendrian knot atlas for 10-arc index knots.
Classifies arcs on a 4-punctured sphere that intersect at most once.
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…
A new method joins two arcs with a degree of freedom.
Graph conditions ensure matching arc complexes are connected and hyperbolic.
Study links' arc index and Turaev genus, proving conjectures.