arXiv research

We introduce a new cohomology-theoretic method for classifying generic immersed curves in closed compact surfaces by using Gauss codes. This subsumes a result of J.S. Carter on classifying immersed curves in oriented compact surfaces, and provides a criterion for when an immersion is two-colorable. We note an applicati…

Study on singularities of Lagrangian immersions with applications in Floer theory.

The paper proves existence of minimal homotopies for immersed planar curves.

Study on evolutes and focal surfaces of pseudo-spherical framed immersions in anti-de Sitter space.

Paper proves existence of isometric immersions for negatively curved surfaces with unbounded second fundamental form.

A few years ago N.A'Campo invented a construction of a link from a real curve immersed into a disk. In the case of the curve originating from the real morsification method the link is isotopic to the link of the corresponding singularity. There are some curves which do not occur in the singularity theory. In this artic…

The paper tackles deeply slice knots via immersed curves.

Proves a conjecture about concordance invariant simplifying its relation to Rasmussen's invariant.

Curves with constant torsion can be deformed arbitrarily.

This study defines finite-type invariants for curves on surfaces and reveals the construction of these finite-type invariants for stable homeomorphism classes of curves on compact oriented surfaces without boundaries. These invariants are a higher-order generalisation of a part of Arnold's invariants that are first-ord…

New knots not slice in rational 4-balls found.

We construct an algebraic version of Lagrangian Floer homology for immersed curves inside the pillowcase. We first associate to the pillowcase an algebra A. Then to an immersed curve L inside the pillowcase we associate an A infinity module M(L) over A. Then we prove that Lagrangian Floer homology HF(L,L') is isomorphi…

The paper develops theory for holomorphic null curves in SL2(C).

Recently N.A'Campo suggested a construction of a link from a generic immersion of a curve into a 2-disk. It is tightly related to the singularity theory. In this paper, we give a simple procedure to draw a diagram of the link from a picture of the curve.

Geometric interpretation of 3-manifold invariants using immersed curves.

New homomorphism proven using immersed curves on disks.

Framework for isometric immersions of planar regions from framed curves.

The quaternionic KP hierarchy is the integrable hierarchy of p.d.e obtained by replacing the complex numbers with the quaternions, mutatis mutandis, in the standard construction of the KP hierarchy equations and solutions; it is equivalent to what is often called the Davey-Stewartson II hierarchy. This article studies …

Study disproves conjecture about metric completion of curve spaces.

We prove short-time existence of φ-regular solutions to the anisotropic and crystalline curvature flow of immersed planar curves.

Space curves with convex projections evolve smoothly until shrinking to a point.

In joint work with J. Rasmussen, we gave an interpretation of Heegaard Floer homology for manifolds with torus boundary in terms of immersed curves in a punctured torus. In particular, knot Floer homology is captured by this invariant. Appealing to earlier work of the authors on bordered Floer homology, we give a formu…

We give a geometric interpretation of Bar-Natan's universal invariant for the class of tangles in the 3-ball with four ends: we associate with such 4-ended tangles $T$ multicurves $\widetilde{\operatorname{BN}}(T)$, that is, collections of immersed curves with local systems in the 4-punctured sphere. These multicurves …

Study proves uniqueness of corrugated negatively curved immersions in differential geometry.

Analytic curves have infinite codimension of singular germs.

We prove that a closed immersed plane curve with total curvature $2πm$ has entropy at least $m$ times the entropy of the embedded circle, as long as it generates a type I singularity under the curve shortening flow (CSF). We construct closed immersed plane curves of total curvature $2πm$ whose entropy is less than $m$ …

The study examines how twisting a knot affects its homology and stability properties.

A new method converts knot Floer homology to immersed curves.

We study biminimal immersions, that is immersions which are critical points of the bienergy for normal variations with fixed energy. We give a geometrical description of the Euler-Lagrange equation associated to biminimal immersions for: i) biminimal curves in a Riemannian manifold, with particular care to the case of …

Algorithm computes Thurston norm for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Study how $J^+$ invariants change under bifurcations of curves.

We study the envelopes of meromorphy of neighborhoods of symplectically immersed two-spheres in complex Kähler surfaces using the Gromov's theory of pseudoholomorphic curves. The construction of a complete family of holomorphic deformations of a non-compact complex curve in a complex manifold, parametrized by a finite …

In this paper we study holomorphic immersions of open Riemann surfaces into C^n whose derivative lies in a conical algebraic subvariety A of C^n that is smooth away from the origin. Classical examples of such A-immersions include null curves in C^3 which are closely related to minimal surfaces in R^3, and null curves i…

We study the space of conformal immersions of a 2-torus into the 4-sphere. The moduli space of generalized Darboux transforms of such an immersed torus has the structure of a Riemann surface, the spectral curve. This Riemann surface arises as the zero locus of the determinant of a holomorphic family of Dirac type opera…

The space of all immersed closed curves of rotation degree 0 in the plane modulo reparametrizations has the same homotopy groups as the circle times the 2-sphere.

For any chord diagram on a circle there exists a complete graph on sufficiently many vertices such that any generic immersion of it to the plane contains a plane closed curve whose chord diagram contains the given chord diagram as a sub-chord diagram. For any generic immersion of the complete graph on six vertices to t…

Investigates Darboux rectifying curves on smooth surfaces.

In this paper, we introduce the notion of developments of curves with respect to symmetric tensors and use it to prove the existence of isometric immersions into a general ambient space with prescribed second fundamental form. Our method provides a geometric construction of such an isometric immersion.

We describe various properties and give several characterizations of ternary groups satisfying two axioms derived from the third Reidemeister move in knot theory. Using special attributes of such ternary groups, such as semi-commutativity, we construct a ternary invariant of curves immersed in compact surfaces, conside…

Study character varieties of tangles to map immersed curves in the pillowcase.

Revisits Weyl's problem on isometric immersions of spheres into 3D manifolds.

Study corrects previous work on knot Floer homology of certain pretzel knots.

Curve Shortening Flow preserves circularity for convex projections.

We obtain a Runge approximation theorem for holomorphic Legendrian curves and immersions in the complex projective $3$-space $\mathbb{CP}^3$, both from open and compact Riemann surfaces, and we prove that the space of Legendrian immersions from an open Riemann surface into $\mathbb{CP}^3$ is path connected. We also sho…

Characterizes a specific type of convex curves on a 3-sphere.

Holomorphic curves in moduli spaces are quasi-isometrically immersed.

Study on fractional Sobolev metrics on curves, proving completeness and geodesic properties.

A conformal immersion of a 2-torus into the 4-sphere is characterized by an auxiliary Riemann surface, its spectral curve. This complex curve encodes the monodromies of a certain Dirac type operator on a quaternionic line bundle associated to the immersion. The paper provides a detailed description of the geometry and …