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Sharp lower bound on fold singularities self-intersections.

The paper explores intersectional fairness in machine learning, proving bounds on it.

Lower bounds on geodesic length with few intersections on hyperbolic surfaces.

Harmonic maps intersect all minimal surfaces with bounded curvature.

Upper bounds for Steklov eigenvalues derived from intersection indices.

Study self-intersections of arcs on a pair of pants, proving natural number spectrum.

Geodesics with bounded angles have zero Hausdorff dimension.

The paper calculates self-intersections on a pair of pants using Bowen and Series' coding.

The paper provides a uniform lower bound for intersection numbers of psi-classes on moduli spaces.

We address the problem of computing bounds for the self-intersection number (the minimum number of self-intersection points) of members of a free homotopy class of curves in the doubly-punctured plane as a function of their combinatorial length L; this is the number of letters required for a minimal description of the …

Our main point of focus is the set of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. For any fixed integer $k$, we are interested in the set of all closed geodesics with at least $k$ (but possibly more) self-intersections. Among these, we consider those of minimal length and investigate their self-intersection numbers. We pr…

Improved bounds on shortest geodesics with self-intersections on hyperbolic surfaces.

Given a hyperbolic surface $§$, a classic result of Birman and Series states that for each $K$, all complete geodesics with at most $K$ self-intersections can only pass through a certain nowhere dense, Hausdorff dimension 1 subset of $§$. We define a self-intersection function for each complete geodesic, which bounds t…

Study detects if a circuit bounds a disc using curve intersections.

The entropy of geodesic currents on hyperbolic surfaces is bounded by their self-intersection number.

A new method clusters intersecting lines using hypergraphs.

The study limits how many parts regular simplicial partitions can overlap.

In this paper we present a way of computing a lower bound for genus of any smooth representative of a homology class of positive self-intersection in a smooth four-manifold $X$ with second positive Betti number $b_2^+(X)=1$. We study the solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations on the cylindrical end manifold which is…

In a previous paper, we defined an operation $μ$ that generalizes Turaev's cobracket for loops on a surface. We showed that, in contrast to the cobracket, this operation gives a formula for the minimum number of self-intersections of a loop in a given free homotopy class. In this paper we consider the corresponding que…

We give bounds on the number of non-simple closed curves on a negatively curved surface, given upper bounds on both length and self-intersection number. In particular, it was previously known that the number of all closed curves of length at most $L$ grows exponentially in $L$. We get exponentially tighter bounds given…

Improved bounds on geodesic intersections on hyperbolic surfaces.

New lower bounds show learning intersections of halfspaces is hard even for a few halfspaces.

We study mapping class group orbits of homotopy and isotopy classes of curves with self-intersections. We exhibit the asymptotics of the number of such orbits of curves with a bounded number of self-intersections, as the complexity of the surface tends to infinity. We also consider the minimal genus of a subsurface tha…

We show that a finite collection of stable subgroups of a finitely generated group has finite height, finite width and bounded packing. We then use knowledge about intersections of conjugates to characterize finite families of quasimorphisms on hyperbolically embedded subgroups that can be to simultaneously extended to…

Study on geodesics proving index and intersection bounds, with examples of multiplicity.

The study proves spherical polygon analogs of curve theorems, finding bounds on intersections and inflections.

Proves a conjecture about Lagrangian intersections using new theory.

We determine the contributions of isolated singularities of spin V 4-manifolds to the index of the Dirac operator over them. From these data we derive certain constraints on the intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds bounded by spherical 3-manifolds, and also on the embeddings of the real projective planes into 4-manif…

We show that the cardinality of the transverse intersection of two compact exact Lagrangian submanifolds in a cotangent bundle is bounded from below by the dimension of the Hom space of sheaf quantizations of the Lagrangians in Tamarkin's category. Our sheaf-theoretic method can also deal with clean and degenerate Lagr…

We study closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, and give bounds for their angles of intersection and self-intersection, and for the sides of the polygons that they form, depending only on the lengths of the geodesics

The study finds an upper limit for the number of minimal origami pairs on a surface.

The study sets constraints on 4-manifold forms linked to specific invariants.

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…

We give an exponential upper and a quadratic lower bound on the number of pairwise non-isotopic simple closed curves can be placed on a closed surface of genus g such that any two of the curves intersects at most once. Although the gap is large, both bounds are the best known for large genus. In genus one and two, we s…

On a hyperbolic Riemann surface, given two simple closed geodesics that intersect $n$ times, we address the question of a sharp lower bound $L_n$ on the length attained by the longest of the two geodesics. We show the existence of a surface $S_n$ on which there exists two simple closed geodesics of length $L_n$ interse…

Study on minimal hypersurfaces in Schwarzschild manifolds intersecting the horizon orthogonally.

Bounds on intersection number for right-angled triangles.

We address a special case of the Stabilization Problem for Heegaard splittings, establishing an upper bound on the number of stabilizations required to make a Heegaard splitting of a Haken 3-manifold isotopic to an amalgamation along an essential surface. As a consequence we show that for any positive integer $n$ there…

We prove Furuta-type bounds for the intersection forms of spin cobordisms between homology 3-spheres. The bounds are in terms of a new numerical invariant of homology spheres, obtained from Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer K-theory. In the process we introduce the notion of a Floer K_G-split homology sphere; thi…

We show that, if a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ bounds a positive definite smooth 4-manifold, then there are finitely many negative definite lattices, up to the stable-equivalence, which can be realized as the intersection form of a smooth 4-manifold bounded by $Y$. To this end, we make use of constraints on definite…

It is well-known that all 2-knots are slice. Are all 2-links slice? This is an outstanding open question. In this paper we prove the following: For any 2-component 2-link (J,K)in the 4-sphere which bounds the 5-ball B^5, there is an embedded disc 2-disc D^2_J (respectively, D^2_K) in B^5 with the following properties: …

We give a lower bound on the number of non-simple closed curves on a hyperbolic surface, given upper bounds on both length and self-intersection number. In particular, we carefully show how to construct closed geodesics on pairs of pants, and give a lower bound on the number of curves in this case. The lower bound for …

We prove that on a closed surface of genus $g$, the cardinality of a set of simple closed curves in which any two are non-homotopic and intersect at most once is $\lesssim g^2 \log(g)$. This bound matches the largest known constructions to within a logarithmic factor. The proof uses a probabilistic argument in graph th…

Intersectional constraints improve selection outcomes by reducing inequality.

Let $Y$ be a hyperbolic surface and let $φ$ be a Laplacian eigenfunction having eigenvalue $-1/4-τ^2$ with $τ>0$. Let $N(φ)$ be the set of nodal lines of $φ$. For a fixed analytic curve $γ$ of finite length, we study the number of intersections between $N(φ)$ and $γ$ in terms of $τ$. When $Y$ is compact and $γ$ a geode…

We investigate the possible self-intersection numbers for sections of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations over surfaces. When the fiber genus g and the base genus h are positive, we prove that the adjunction bound 2h-2 is the only universal bound on the self-intersection number of a section of any such genus g bun…

This paper describes the relationship between the first non-vanishing Milnor invariants of a classical link and the intersection invariant of a twisted Whitney tower. This is a certain 2-complex in the 4-ball, built from immersed disks bounded by the given link in the 3-sphere together with finitely many `layers' of Wh…

This paper introduces an intersection theory problem for maps into a smooth manifold equipped with a stratification. We investigate the problem in the special case when the target is the unitary group and the domain is a circle. The first main result is an index theorem that equates a global intersection index with a f…