arXiv research

New method produces positive colored superpolynomials from four-point functions.

Explains the pure cactus group of degree three and its relation to four points on a circle.

New curvature bounds defined for Lorentzian spaces.

We show that an open subset ${\mathfrak F}_4''$ of the ${\rm PU}(2,1)$ configuration space of four points in $S^3$ is in bijection with an open subset of %with a Kähler structure which is inherited from the one of ${\mathfrak H}^{\star}\times\mathbb{R}_{>0}$, where ${\mathfrak H}^\star$ is the affine-rotational group. …

We obtain an upper bound for the volume of the convex hull of a simple closed Frenet curve with exactly four vertices, i.e., four points of vanishing torsion, and lying on the boundary of its convex hull. Moreover, we show that the upper bound is attained when the curve intersects every plane in at most four points, a …

We show that the fundamental group of the space of ordered affine-equivalent configurations of at least five points in the real plane is isomorphic to the pure braid group modulo its centre. In the case of four points this fundamental group is free with eleven generators.

We show that for given four points on the sphere and prescribed angles at these points, which are not multiples of $2π$, the number of metrics of curvature 1 having conic singularities with these angles at these points is finite.

The paper extends Reshetnyak's theorem to Lorentzian length spaces with upper curvature bounds.

We define a family of four-point invariants for Shilov boundaries of bounded symmetric domains of tube type, which generalizes the classical four-point cross ratio on the unit circle. This generalization, which is based on a similar construction of Clerc and Ørsted, is functorial and well-behaved under products; these …

Using Jeff Holman's comments in Quantitative Finance to illustrate 4 critical errors students should learn to avoid: 1) Mistaking tails (4th moment) for volatility (2nd moment), 2) Missing Jensen's Inequality, 3) Analyzing the hedging wihout the underlying, 4) The necessity of a numeraire in finance.

A celebrated and deep theorem in the theory of Riemann surfaces states the existence and uniqueness of the Jenkins-Strebel differentials on a Riemann surface under some conditions, but the proof is non-constructive and examples are difficult to find. This paper deals with an example of a simple case, namely Jenkins-Str…

A quadrisecant line is one which intersects a curve in at least four points, while an essential secant captures something about the knottedness of a knot. This survey article gives a brief history of these ideas, and shows how they may be applied to questions about the geometry of a knot via the total curvature, ropele…

A cyclic cover over the Riemann sphere branched at four points inherits a natural flat structure from the "pillow" flat structure on the basic sphere. We give an explicit formula for all individual Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle over the corresponding arithmetic Teichmuller curve. The key technical element is e…

Curves inscribe rectangles with positive area.

Proof of Graustein's theorem in different geometries.

It is known that for every knotted curve in space, there is a line intersecting it in four places, a quadrisecant. Comparing the order of the four points along the line and knot we can distinguish three types of quadrisecants; the alternating ones have the most relevance for the geometry of a knot. In this paper we pro…

We study a cross-ratio of four generic points of $S^3$ which comes from spherical CR geometry. We construct a homomorphism from a certain group generated by generic configurations of four points in $S^3$ to the pre-Bloch group $\mathcal {P}(\C)$. If $M$ is a $3$-dimensional spherical CR manifold with a CR triangulation…

A new subdivision scheme for Heisenberg group values with central smoothness loss.

Given a configuration $\mathbf{x}$ of $n$ distinct points in hyperbolic $3$-space $H^3$, Michael Atiyah associated $n$ polynomials $p_1,\ldots,p_n$ of a variable $t \in \mathbb{C}P^1$, of degree $n-1$, and conjectured that they are linearly independent over $\mathbb{C}$, no matter which configuration $\mathbf{x}$ one s…

A quadrisecant of a knot is a straight line intersecting the knot at four points. If a knot has finitely many quadrisecants, one can replace each subarc between two adjacent secant points by the line segment between them to get the quadrisecant approximation of the original knot. It was conjectured that the quadrisecan…

Consider the 1-dimensional Hurwitz space parameterizing covers of P^1 branched at four points. We study its intersection with divisor classes on the moduli space of curves. As an application, we calculate the slope of the Teichmuller curve parameterizing square-tiled cyclic covers and recover the sum of its Lyapunov ex…

We consider the problem of finding the probability that a random triangle is obtuse, which was first raised by Lewis Caroll. Our investigation leads us to a natural correspondence between plane polygons and the Grassmann manifold of 2-planes in real $n$-space proposed by Allen Knutson and Jean-Claude Hausmann. This cor…

The torus $\mathbb{T}=S^1\times S^1$ appears as the ideal boundary $\partial_\infty AdS^3$ of the three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space $AdS^3$, as well as the Fürstenberg boundary $\mathbb{F}(X)$ of the rank-2 symmetric space $X={\rm SO}_0(2,2)/{\rm SO}(2)\times{\rm SO}(2)$. We introduce cross-ratios on the torus in …

The Four Vertex Theorem, one of the earliest results in global differential geometry, says that a simple closed curve in the plane, other than a circle, must have at least four "vertices", that is, at least four points where the curvature has a local maximum or local minimum. In 1909 Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya proved this …

Santaló calculated the measures for all positions of a moving line segment in which it lies inside a fixed circle and intersects this circle in one or two points. From these measures he concluded hitting probabilities for a line segment thrown randomly onto an unbounded lattice of circles. In the present paper these re…

Study curvature and torsion from cross-ratios in discrete curves.

This work tackles the problem of robust zero-shot planning in non-stationary stochastic environments. We study Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) evolving over time and consider Model-Based Reinforcement Learning algorithms in this setting. We make two hypotheses: 1) the environment evolves continuously with a bounded ev…

The study proves a discrete version of Segre's theorem for polygonal curves.

Prym-Teichmüller curves $W_D(4)$ constitute the main examples of known primitive Teichmüller curves in the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_3$. We determine, for each non-square discriminant $D>1$, the number and type of orbifold points in $W_D(4)$. These results, together with the formulas of Lanneau-Nguyen and Möller for th…

We study the Poincaré disk ${\cal D}=\{a\in {\cal A}: \|a\|<1\}$ of a C$^*$-algebra ${\cal A}$ from a projective point of view: ${\cal D}$ is regarded as an open subset of the projective line $\mathbb{P}_1{\cal A}$, the space of complemented rank one submodules of ${\cal A}^2$. We introduce the concept of cross ratio o…

Elliptic curves and braid groups linked through configuration spaces.

Formula conjectured for rational cuspidal curves in projective plane.

The Powell Conjecture offers a finite generating set for the genus $g$ Goeritz group, the group of automorphisms of $S^3$ that preserve a genus $g$ Heegaard surface $Σ_g$, generalizing a classical result of Goeritz in the case $g=2$. We study the relationship between the Powell Conjecture and the reducing sphere comple…

We initiate the study of classical knots through the homotopy class of the n-th evaluation map of the knot, which is the induced map on the compactified n-point configuration space. Sending a knot to its n-th evaluation map realizes the space of knots as a subspace of what we call the n-th mapping space model for knots…

Square-like quadrilaterals inscribed in space curves proven for finite total curvature.

Developing a non-symmetric strainer theory for spaces with non-negative curvature beyond Alexandrov geometry.

We study a particular class of representations from the fundamental groups of punctured spheres $Σ_{0,n}$ to the group $\text{PSL} (2,\mathbb R)$ (and their moduli spaces), that we call \emph{super-maximal}. Super-maximal representations are shown to be \emph{totally non hyperbolic}, in the sense that every simple clos…

This paper proves Hitchin moduli spaces are ALG gravitational instantons.

Many knots and links in S^3 can be drawn as gluing of three manifolds with one or more four-punctured S^2 boundaries. We call these knot diagrams as double fat graphs whose invariants involve only the knowledge of the fusion and the braiding matrices of four-strand braids. Incorporating the properties of four-point con…

New neural network models for complex functional data analysis.

Distance function to a finite set is a topological Morse function.

Introduces new weighted floating functions and affine surface areas.

Develops methods for selecting and estimating smooth functional coefficients in high-dimensional multivariate functional data.

Neural networks can approximate functionals on RKHS with error bounds.

FFBO optimizes functions as inputs and outputs, improving on existing BO methods.

Chirped sinosoids and interferometric phase plots are functions that are not periodic, but are the composition of a smooth function and a periodic function. These functions functions factor into a pair of maps: from their domain to a circle, and from a circle to their codomain. One can easily imagine replacing the circ…

The Fridman function is bounded by the injectivity radius for certain hyperbolic manifolds.

Optimally estimates a functional using nuisance function tuning and sample splitting.