Weiss and, independently, Mazzeo and Montcouquiol recently proved that a 3--dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifold (possibly with vertices) with all cone angles less than 2π is infinitesimally rigid. On the other hand, Casson provided 1998 an example of an infinitesimally flexible cone-manifold with some of the cone an…
Establishes jet transversality for regular maps from flexible manifolds.
problem Transversality for regular maps in algebraic geometry.
method Algebraic version of Forstnerič's theorem for holomorphic maps.
result Genericity theorems for regular maps of maximal ranks.
Study shows non-existence of certain contact structures on odd-dimensional manifolds.
problem Existence of contact structures with flexible pages on odd-dimensional manifolds.
method Proved a topological obstruction and used symplectic actions to show non-existence.
result Non-existence of contact open books with flexible pages for certain manifolds.
Stabilized convex symplectic manifolds are equivalent to flexible Weinstein manifolds.
problem Understanding the equivalence between stabilized convex symplectic manifolds and flexible Weinstein manifolds.
method Analyzing the homotopy type and symplectic properties of the manifolds.
result Stabilized convex symplectic manifolds are symplectomorphic to flexible Weinstein manifolds.
This paper determines the flexible exponent for non-geometric 3-manifolds.
problem Bounding the mapping degree in terms of the Lipschitz constant for non-geometric 3-manifolds.
method Analyzing the infimum of α such that the inequality holds for any Lipschitz map.
result The flexible exponent for non-geometric 3-manifolds is determined.
The present paper gives an example of a rigid spherical cone-manifold and that of a flexible one which are both Seifert fibred.
We introduce and discuss notions of regularity and flexibility for Lagrangian manifolds with Legendrian boundary in Weinstein domains. There is a surprising abundance of flexible Lagrangians. In turn, this leads to new constructions of Legendrians submanifolds and Weinstein manifolds. For instance, many closed n-mani…
We prove an analogue of Thurston's h-principle for 2-dimensional foliations on manifolds of dimension bigger or equal to 4, in the presence of a fiber-wise non-degenerate 2-form. This helps us understand the flexibility of rank 2 regular Poisson structures on open manifolds with dimension bigger or equal to 4…
Flexible surfaces found in complex projective and product spaces.
problem Finding flexible surfaces in complex projective and product spaces.
method Constructing flexible surfaces within prescribed homology classes.
result Flexible surfaces exist in both CP2 and S2imesS2. We explain a connection between the algebraic and geometric properties of groups of contact transformations, open book decompositions, and flexible Legendrian embeddings. The main result is that, if a closed contact manifold (V,ξ) has a supporting open book whose pages are flexible Weinstein manifolds, then the conn…
New bounds on mapping degrees for geometric 3-manifolds.
problem Bounding the mapping degree in terms of Lipschitz constant for geometric 3-manifolds.
method Constructing Legendrian maps to prove bounds on flexible exponent.
result Complete result for flexible exponent of geometric 3-manifolds.
Groups of importance in group theory have flexible stability properties.
problem Stability and flexibility of groups in geometric and combinatorial group theory.
method Establishing Kirchberg's Local Lifting Property and Lubotzky--Shalom's Property FD for specific groups.
result Groups like 3-manifold groups, limit groups, and certain one-relator groups are very flexibly stable. In this short note, a question of patching together globally hyperbolic manifolds is adressed which appeared in the context of the construction of Hadamard states.
Contact surgeries yield algebraically overtwisted manifolds.
problem Understanding algebraically overtwisted contact manifolds through surgeries.
method Contact (+1)-surgeries on Legendrian spheres in flexibly fillable contact manifolds. result Yielding algebraically overtwisted manifolds when the Legendrian's homology class is not annihilated.
New distributions on manifolds for better sampling.
problem Creating flexible distributions on Riemannian manifolds.
method Area-preserving maps and isometries for constructing distributions.
result Flexibility and straightforward sampling of distributions.
mFI-PSO generates effective adversarial images for DNNs.
problem Vulnerability of DNNs to small perturbations in images.
method Uses mFI for pixel selection and PSO for objective functions.
result mFI-PSO effectively designs flexible adversarial images.
Given a flexible n-gon with generic side lengths, the moduli space of its configurations in R2 as well as in R3 is a smooth manifold. It is equipped with n \textit{tautological} line bundles whose definition is motivated by M. Kontsevich's tautological bundles over M0,n. We st…
Neural ODEs extended to manifolds for flexible sampling.
problem Sampling from complex multimodal distributions on non-trivial topologies.
method Extending Neural ODEs to smooth manifolds using vector fields.
result A general methodology for building normalizing flows on manifolds.
Study on embeddings of surfaces in 4-manifolds and their mapping classes.
problem Characterizing and understanding embeddings of surfaces in 4-manifolds and their mapping classes.
method Analyzing smooth proper embeddings and mapping classes induced by diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds.
result Most surfaces do not admit flexible embeddings in 4-manifolds with specific homology types.
The paper explores rigidity and flexibility of isometric extensions with critical Hölder exponent.
problem The critical Hölder exponent in isometric extensions and its implications.
method Convex integration and construction of isometric extensions.
result The Hölder exponent $θ_0=rac12$ is critical, with extensions violating the tangential connection for $θ<rac12$.
Riemannian flows model curved spaces better.
problem Normalizing flows misspecified on curved spaces.
method Riemannian continuous normalizing flows using ODE solutions.
result Improves modeling on spheres, torii, and hyperbolic spaces.
Develops Shapley explainability solutions respecting data manifold.
problem Tenable assumption of uncorrelated features in Shapley explainability.
method Two solutions: generative modelling and direct learning of Shapley value-function.
result On-manifold Shapley explainability overcomes drawbacks of 'off-manifold' values.
Researchers prove spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible with symmetry.
problem Contractibility of spaces of invariant positive scalar curvature metrics.
method Combining equivariant Morse theory with conformal deformations and local flexibility properties.
result Spaces of invariant positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible.
Positive paths connect diffeomorphisms on contact manifolds.
problem Defining and analyzing positivity in diffeomorphism groups of manifolds with contact structures.
method By examining paths of diffeomorphisms that are positively transverse to the contact distribution, showing flexibility and connecting diffeomorphisms.
result Any two diffeomorphisms on standard contact structure of R^(2n+1) can be connected by a positive path.
In a range of fields including the geosciences, molecular biology, robotics and computer vision, one encounters problems that involve random variables on manifolds. Currently, there is a lack of flexible probabilistic models on manifolds that are fast and easy to train. We define an extremely flexible class of exponent…
Identifies smooth curves for financial models.
problem Consistent term structures with flexible diffusion.
method Analyzes manifolds of curves for Heath-Jarrow-Morton models.
result Term structures cannot be affine but must be linear-rational.
We take a first step towards understanding the relationship between foliations and universally tight contact structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. If a surface bundle over a circle has pseudo-Anosov holonomy, we obtain a classification of "extremal" tight contact structures. Specifically, there is exactly one contact s…
DINo forecasts PDEs with flexible extrapolation and adaptability.
problem Fixed discretizations limit real-world PDE forecasting.
method DINo uses implicit neural representations for continuous-time dynamics.
result DINo outperforms other neural PDE forecasters.
In this paper we define and study flexible links and flexible isotopy in projective space. Flexible links are meant to capture the topological properties of real algebraic links. We classify all flexible links up to flexible isotopy using Ekholms interpretation of Viros encomplexed writhe.
Extends h-principle to stratified spaces using sheaf and jet theories.
problem Applying h-principle to stratified spaces.
method Developed new sheaf and bundle theories for stratified spaces, and proved the h-principle.
result Stratified continuous sheaves and homotopy fiber sheaves lead to the parametric h-principle.
The authors characterize flexibility in power and energy markets considering time, spatiality, resource, and risk.
problem Evaluating and maximizing flexibility in power systems and markets.
method Characterization of flexibility dimensions (time, spatiality, resource, risk) and their interrelations with flexibility assets, products, and services.
result Flexibility should be evaluated based on multiple dimensions for efficient power systems and markets.
Flexible knot construction for low genus surfaces.
problem Finding knots with unexpectedly low genus surfaces.
method Flexible construction of knots in 3-sphere that bound surfaces of low genus in punctured open books.
result First examples of knots with differing genus in different homology balls.
Concept Factorization (CF) and its variants may produce inaccurate representation and clustering results due to the sensitivity to noise, hard constraint on the reconstruction error and pre-obtained approximate similarities. To improve the representation ability, a novel unsupervised Robust Flexible Auto-weighted Local…
New invariant counts graph configurations in 3D manifolds.
problem Counting graph configurations in 3D manifolds.
method Using combings instead of parallelizations for a more flexible definition.
result Universal finite type invariant of three-manifolds.
New inequality for odd-degree flexible curves using surface doubling.
problem Bounding the number of non-empty ovals of odd-degree flexible curves.
method Defining an Arnold surface for odd-degree flexible curves and using it to derive a Viro--Zvonilov-type inequality.
result Upper bound on the number of non-empty ovals of odd-degree flexible curves.
Automates detection of fast-ramped flexibility events for DSOs.
problem Monitoring and supervising flexibility activations in power systems.
method Unsupervised detection and open-set classification.
result Automatically identifies critical flexibility activations for early intervention.
We prove estimates interpolating the Schwarz Lemmata of Royden-Yau and the ones recently established by the author. These more flexible estimates provide additional information on (algebraic) geometric aspects of compact Kähler manifolds with nonnegative holomorphic sectional curvature, nonnegative $\Ric_\ell$ or posit…
Polyhedra called Siamese dipyramids are known to be non-flexible, however their physical models behave like physical models of flexible polyhedra. We discuss a simple mathematical method for explaining the model flexibility of the Siamese dipyramids.
We show that the presence of a plastikstufe induces a certain degree of flexibility in contact manifolds of dimension 2n+1>3. More precisely, we prove that every Legendrian knot whose complement contains a "nice" plastikstufe can be destabilized (and, as a consequence, is loose). As an application, it follows in certai…
In this paper we study infinitesimal and finite flexibility for generic semidiscrete surfaces. We prove that generic 2-ribbon semidiscrete surfaces have one degree of infinitesimal and finite flexibility. In particular we write down a system of differential equations describing isometric deformations in the case of exi…
Study presents a twistor correspondence for specific geometric structures.
problem Twistor theory for almost-Grassmannian manifolds.
method Utilizes moduli of curves-with-boundary for global correspondence.
result Foundational results in complex setting, global correspondence for real Grassmannian.
Integral foliated simplicial volume is a version of simplicial volume combining the rigidity of integral coefficients with the flexibility of measure spaces. In this article, using the language of measure equivalence of groups we prove a proportionality principle for integral foliated simplicial volume for aspherical m…
In this paper we study geometric, algebraic, and computational aspects of flexibility and infinitesimal flexibility of Kokotsakis meshes. A Kokotsakis mesh is a mesh that consists of a face in the middle and a certain band of faces attached to the middle face by its perimeter. In particular any 3x3-mesh made of quadran…
Sharp spectral extension of rigidity theorem for mean-convex manifolds.
problem Rigidity and flexibility of manifolds with mean-convex boundary and nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Spectral Ricci lower bounds and mean-convex boundary conditions.
result Sharp spectral extension of rigidity theorem for specific conditions.
Energy Matching unifies flow matching and energy-based models for generative modeling.
problem Inability of flow-based models to integrate partial observations and priors.
method Energy Matching framework that integrates flow matching and energy-based models.
result Substantially outperforms existing EBMs on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet generation.
Geometric families of low-rank covariances improve flexibility and tractability in high dimensions.
problem Interpolating and identifying covariance matrices in high dimensions with limited data.
method Differential geometric construction of low-rank covariance families, interpolation on manifolds, and distance minimization for identification.
result Differential geometric covariance families offer significant flexibility and computational tractability.
Characterizes rigid and flexible hyperbolic cone metrics and billiards.
problem Understanding the rigidity and flexibility of hyperbolic cone metrics and their billiard dynamics.
method Characterization through Liouville currents and deformation spaces.
result Generic rigidity and parameterization of deformation spaces for flexible metrics.
The paper defines flexible domains for minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces and explores their properties.
problem Understanding the flexibility of domains in Euclidean spaces for minimal surfaces.
method Investigates the concept of flexibility in terms of minimal surfaces contained in domains.
result Defines flexible domains and shows how they can be approximated by minimal immersions.