arXiv research

Study on bending knots and energy changes in 3D space.

Study bends 2D surfaces in 3D space using special equations.

The study explores isometric deformations of surfaces of translation.

A local description of the non-flat infinitesimally bendable Euclidean hypersurfaces was recently given by Dajczer and Vlachos \cite{DaVl}. From their classification, it follows that there is an abundance of infinitesimally bendable hypersurfaces that are not isometrically bendable. In this paper we consider the case o…

Study on bending deformations in hyperbolic manifolds, generalizing Johnson and Millson's work.

A basic question in submanifold theory is whether a given isometric immersion $f\colon M^n\to\R^{n+p}$ of a Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ into Euclidean space with low codimension $p$ admits, locally or globally, a genuine infinitesimal bending. That is, if there exists a genuine smooth variation of $f$ by…

Derives a new first order differential equation for smooth surfaces.

We show how the rotation and translation fields of a surface, introduced by G. Darboux, may be used to obtain short proofs of a well-known theorem (that reads that the total mean curvature of a surface is stationary under an infinitesimal bending) and a new theorem (that reads that every infinitesimal flex of any simpl…

New solutions found for bending of flat surfaces and origami structures.

Nontrivial infinitesimal bendings for a class of two-dimensional surfaces are constructed. The surfaces considered here are orientable; compact; with boundary; have positive curvature everywhere except at finitely many planar points; and have vanishing first homology group.As a consequence, a nonrigidity result for suc…

New method classifies hypersurfaces that can bend infinitesimally.

Shells resist three out of six possible loads if simply connected.

We consider the problem of distortion minimal morphing of $n$-dimensional compact connected oriented smooth manifolds without boundary embedded in $\R^{n+1}$. Distortion involves bending and stretching. In this paper, minimal distortion (with respect to stretching) is defined as the infinitesimal relative change in vol…

Proves the bending map is proper for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Periodic surfaces have a limited number of bending modes, equal to their membrane modes.

Minimal surfaces can be transformed into others with unchanged bending content.

We examine the dependence of the deformation obtained by bending quasi-Fuchsian structures on the bending lamination. We show that when we consider bending quasi-Fuchsian structures on a closed surface, the conditions obtained by Epstein and Marden to relate weak convergence of arbitrary laminations to the convergence …

Generalizes existence of bending laminations for Kleinian groups.

The paper bends Riemannian manifolds to achieve metrics with negative Ricci curvature.

Study on elastic curves with variable stiffness, derived from bending energy.

We prove Thurston's bending measure conjecture for quasifuchsian once punctured torus groups. The conjecture states that the bending measures of the two components of the convex hull boundary uniquely determine the group.

Study finds how periodic surfaces can bend without stretching.

Bounds projective structure norms by bending lamination lengths.

This paper proves unique determination of certain non-quasi-Fuchsian manifolds by their end structure and bending lamination.

Study surface subgroups acting on projective space, finding bending laminations and spheres.

The bending map of a hyperbolic 3-manifold maps a convex cocompact hyperbolic metric on a hyperbolic 3-manifold with boundary to its bending measured geodesic lamination. In the present paper we study the extension of this map to the space of geometrically finite hyperbolic metrics. We introduce a relationship on the s…

New bounds link Schwarzian derivative to hyperbolic geometry.

We investigate the elastic behavior of knotted loops of springy wire. To this end we minimize the classic bending energy $E_{\text{bend}}=\intκ^2$ together with a small multiple of ropelength $\mathcal R=\text{length}/\text{thickness}$ in order to penalize selfintersection. Our main objective is to characterize elastic…

Separating overlapped nuclei is a major challenge in histopathology image analysis. Recently published approaches have achieved promising overall performance on public datasets; however, their performance in segmenting overlapped nuclei are limited. To address the issue, we propose the bending loss regularized network …

Twisted $\operatorname{SL}_2 \mathbb{C}$ local systems on surfaces of finite type appear often in geometry and physics. Most of them arise geometrically as local systems of charts for pleated hyperbolic structures. Bonahon and Thurston's "shear-bend coordinates" parameterize these local systems of charts. On a surface …

Researchers find a surface with minimum bending energy for any genus and isoperimetric ratio.

We study deformations of complex hyperbolic surfaces which furnish the simplest examples of: (i) negatively curved Kähler manifolds and (ii) negatively curved Riemannian manifolds not having {\it constant} curvature. Although such complex surfaces may share the rigidity of quaternionic/octionic hyperbolic manifolds, ou…

A mapping bends Teichmüller spaces into character varieties, preserving symplectic structure.

Let $M$ and $N$ be compact smooth oriented Riemannian $n$-manifolds without boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Several problems about minimal distortion bending and morphing of $M$ to $N$ are posed. Cost functionals that measure distortion due to stretching or bending produced by a diffeomorphism $h:M \to N$ are …

The Hopf fibration has inspired any number of geometric structures in physical systems, in particular in chiral liquid crystalline materials. Because the Hopf fibration lives on the three sphere, $\mathbb{S}^3$, some method of projection or distortion must be employed to realize textures in flat space. Here, we explore…

Critical trajectories in a sphere are found for a specific bending functional.

Constructs minimal surfaces by gluing saddle towers with Scherk ends.

Geometric interpretation of Fock-Goncharov positivity and disk stabilization in symmetric space.

The problem of minimal distortion bending of smooth compact embedded connected Riemannian $n$-manifolds $M$ and $N$ without boundary is made precise by defining a deformation energy functional $Φ$ on the set of diffeomorphisms $\diff(M,N)$. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for $Φ$ and determine smooth minimizers o…

Study complex hyperbolic structures on a disc orbibundle with 5 cone points.

We preset a computational study of bending models for the curvature elasticity of lipid bilayer membranes that are relevant for simulations of vesicles and red blood cells. We compute bending energy and forces on triangulated meshes and evaluate and extend four well established schemes for their approximation: Kantor a…

Suppose M_t is a smooth family of compact connected two dimensional submanifolds of Euclidean space E^3 without boundary varying isometrically in their induced Riemannian metrics. Then we show that the mean curvature integrals over M_t are constant. It is unknown whether there are nontrivial such bendings. The estimate…

Optimal flat ribbons can be created from nonplanar curves with minimal energy.

Holographic principle matches deformed Liouville theory action.

In this paper we show that bending a finite volume hyperbolic $d$-manifold $M$ along a totally geodesic hypersurface $Σ$ results in a properly convex projective structure on $M$ with finite volume. We also discuss various geometric properties of bent manifolds and algebraic properties of their fundamental groups. We th…

We introduce a notion of generalized Willmore functionals motivated by the Hawking energy of General Relativity and bending energies of membranes. An example of a bending energy is discussed in detail. Using results of Y. Chen and J. Li, we present a compactness result for branched, immersed, haunted, stratified surfac…

Classifies pinned $p$-elasticae and finds unique optimality exponents.

We study limits of quasifuchsian groups for which the bending measures on the convex hull boundary tend to zero, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the limit group to exist and be Fuchsian. As an application we complete the proof of a conjecture made in \cite{S1}, that the closure of pleating varieties for …