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48 results for irregular singularities

Proves heat expansion for Laplacian on a singularity.

problem Analytic hypersurface with isolated singularity and Laplacian heat expansion.
method Local parametrization, Newton scheme, quasihomogeneous tangent cone, local models with irregular singularities.
result Existence of small time heat expansion for Laplace operator.

Given a closed oriented PL four-manifold XX and a closed surface BB embedded in XX with isolated cone singularities, we give a formula for the signature of an irregular dihedral cover of XX branched along BB. For XX simply-connected, we deduce a necessary condition on the intersection form of a simply-connected i…

2016-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study infinite-dimensional Toda manifold at irregular singularity, revealing non-uniqueness of formal solutions.

problem Non-uniqueness of formal solutions to the Dubrovin equation at irregular singularity.
method Revisited canonical coordinates, formal solutions analysis, Borel resummation, Stokes matrices computation.
result Infinite-dimensional Stokes matrices computed from resummed formal solutions.

We describe how to compute topological objects associated to a polynomial map of several complex variables with isolated singularities. These objects are: the affine critical values, the affine Milnor numbers for all irregular fibers, the critical values at infinity, and the Milnor numbers at infinity for all irregular…

2003-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper connects Painlevé VI equation to irregular systems, solving monodromy data.

problem Solving monodromy data for irregular systems related to Painlevé VI.
method Expressed Frobenius integrability in terms of PVI, computed monodromy data for coalescing eigenvalues.
result Computed monodromy data for transcendentals holomorphic at critical points of PVI.

We describe the moduli spaces of meromorphic connections on trivial holomorphic vector bundles over the Riemann sphere with at most one (unramified) irregular singularity and arbitrary number of simple poles as Nakajima's quiver varieties. This result enables us to solve partially the additive irregular Deligne-Simpson…

2013-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study local wild mapping class groups for irregular connections on complex curves.

problem Understanding the moduli spaces of irregular connections on complex curves.
method Using isomonodromic deformations, focusing on reflections cosets, and introducing fission trees.
result Complete classification of local wild mapping class groups for various structure groups.

We study triangulations T\cal T defined on a closed disc XX satisfying the following condition: In the interior of XX, the valence of all vertices of T\cal T except one of them (the irregular vertex) is 66. By using a flat singular Riemannian metric adapted to T\cal T, we prove a uniqueness theorem when the valen…

2018-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

With the developments of the last decade on complete constant mean curvature 1 (CMC 1) surfaces in the hyperbolic 3-space H3H^3, many examples of such surfaces are now known. However, most of the known examples have regular ends. (An end is irregular, resp. regular, if the hyperbolic Gauss map of the surface has an ess…

2008-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Consider a dihedral cover f:YXf: Y\to X with XX and YY four-manifolds and ff branched along an oriented surface embedded in XX with isolated cone singularities. We prove that only a slice knot can arise as the unique singularity on an irregular dihedral cover f:YS4f: Y\to S^4 if YY is homotopy equivalent to $\mathbb{CP…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a topological model for a polynomial map from $\C^n$ to $\C$ in the neighborhood of a fiber with isolated singularities. This is motivated out of the ``unfolding of links'' described earlier by the first author and Lee Rudolph. The topological model gives a useful encoding of the local and global monodromy for …

1999-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

On a complex curve, we establish a correspondence between integrable connections with irregular singularities, and Higgs bundles such that the Higgs field is meromorphic with poles of any order. The moduli spaces of these objects are obtained by fixing at each singularity the polar part of the connection. We prove that…

2001-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Esnault-Viehweg developed the theory of cyclic branched coverings X~X\tilde X\to X of smooth surfaces providing a very explicit formula for the decomposition of H1(X~,C)H^1(\tilde X,\mathbb{C}) in terms of a resolution of the ramification locus. Later, the first author applies this to the particular case of coverings of $\mat…

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proves short-time existence for network flow, providing detailed insights.

problem Short-time existence for the flow of a network of curves in the plane.
method Direct PDE approach, handling singularities at vertices using self-similar expanding solutions.
result Substantially more detailed information about network resolution into a regular one.

Study on the asymptotic geometry of Higgs bundles over projective line.

problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of Hitchin's metric on moduli spaces of rank two irregular Higgs bundles.
method Analysis of Hitchin's hyperkähler metric and comparison with semiflat and ALG/ALG^\ast models.
result Hitchin's metric is asymptotic to semiflat and ALG/ALG^\ast models at polynomial and exponential rates.

New Calabi-Yau metrics found on complex symmetric spaces.

problem Finding Calabi-Yau metrics on complex symmetric spaces.
method Complete Calabi-Yau metrics with prescribed horospherical singular tangent cone.
result First examples of Calabi-Yau smoothings of singular tangent cones.

Study of curve shortening flow for twisted curves, defining curvature-torsion entropy.

problem Understanding the behavior of curves with curvature and torsion under curve shortening flow.
method Defined curvature-torsion entropy to analyze the flow of twisted curves.
result Curved curves under curve shortening flow either develop inflection points or exhibit highly irregular singularities.

This paper explores how local behavior of meromorphic connections on the projective line determines the global connection.

problem Determining the global meromorphic connection based on specified local behavior at singular points.
method Expository discussion of various problems related to meromorphic connections with specified local behavior, including Deligne-Simpson and rigidity problems.
result The existence and nonemptiness of moduli spaces of meromorphic connections with specified local behavior.

Solves Deligne-Simpson problem for special connections on Gm.

problem Existence of Fuchsian connections with specific singularities.
method Theory of fundamental and regular strata, lattice chain filtration, quiver varieties.
result Characterization of rigid connections with unipotent monodromy at infinity.

In this paper, we introduce two new classes of representations of the framed braid groups. One is the homological representation constructed as the action of a mapping class group on a certain homology group. The other is the monodromy representation of the confluent KZ equation, which is a generalization of the KZ equ…

2017-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The Ooguri-Vafa space is a 4-dimensional incomplete hyperkähler manifold, defined on the total space of a singular torus fibration with one singular nodal fiber. It has been proposed that the Ooguri-Vafa hyperkähler metric should be part of the local model of the hyperkähler metric of the Hitchin moduli spaces, near th…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds volume minimization principle for conical Calabi-Yau structures on horospherical cones.

problem Existence and classification of conical Calabi-Yau structures on horospherical cones.
method Variational approach to establish equivalence between volume minimization and existence of conical Calabi-Yau structures.
result Existence of many irregular horospherical cones with mild singularities.

We demonstrate how the complex integral formula for the Airy functions arises from Penrose's twistor contour integral formula. We then use the Lax formulation of the isomonodromy problem with one irregular singularity of order four to show that the Airy equation arises from the anti-self-duality equations for conformal…

2013-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that any 4-manifold admitting a (g;k1,k2,0)(g;k_1,k_2,0)-trisection is an irregular 3-fold cover of the 4-sphere whose branching set is a surface in S4S^4, smoothly embedded except for one singular point which is the cone on a link. A 4-manifold admits such a trisection if and only if it has a handle decomposition with …

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note, we investigate pluri-half-anticanonical systems on the so called LeBrun twistor spaces. We determine its dimension, the base locus, structure of the associated rational map, and also structure of general members, in precise form. In particular, we show that if n>2 and m>1, the base locus of the system |mK…

2009-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

EDICT learns evidential distributions for irregular time series, improving predictions and uncertainty quantification.

problem Challenges in predicting and characterizing uncertainty for irregular time series data.
method EDICT (Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series) learns a continuous-time evidential distribution.
result EDICT achieves competitive performance on time series classification tasks and provides better uncertainty quantification.

New algorithm for Coxeter connections with maximally ramified singularities.

problem Constructing connections on the projective line with a maximally ramified irregular singularity.
method Numerical algorithm for matrix completions to solve the Upper Nilpotent Completion Problem.
result Explicit constructions of Coxeter connections with specified singularities.

We show that there are no irregular Sasaki-Einstein structures on rational homology 5-spheres. On the other hand, using K-stability we prove the existence of continuous families of non-toric irregular Sasaki-Einstein structures on odd connected sums of S2×S3S^2 \times S^3.

2018-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

LLapDiff models irregular multivariate time series without step-by-step integration.

problem Trade-off between discrete and continuous methods for long-horizon forecasting.
method Generative framework that models target as a low-dimensional latent trajectory, guided by modal parameterization and Laplace domain poles.
result Improves long-horizon forecasting over baselines and supports missing-value imputation.

CRUs model irregular time series with continuous hidden states.

problem Handling irregular time intervals in sequential data.
method Continuous Recurrent Units (CRUs) that integrate hidden states via a linear stochastic differential equation.
result CRUs outperform methods based on neural ordinary differential equations in irregular time series interpolation.

For a complex polynomial in two variables we study the morphism induced in homology by the embedding of an irregular fiber in a regular neighborhood of it. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for this morphism to be injective, surjective. Particularly this morphism is an isomorphism if and only if the correspon…

2001-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The book is devoted to study so-called irregular subsets of the Grassmannian manifold Gkn(V)G^{n}_{k}(V) (this class of sets was introduced by author). In the previous variant of the book we restrict ourself only to the case when VV is an nn-dimensional vector space under the field RR. Now we consider irregular subsets …

1999-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

ACSSM models irregular time series with continuous dynamics.

problem Modeling irregular time series data.
method ACSSM uses a multi-marginal Doob's h-transform and variational inference with stochastic optimal control.
result ACSSM outperforms in tasks like classification, regression, interpolation, and extrapolation.

Neural Laplace Control tackles offline RL for continuous-time delayed systems with irregular observations.

problem Offline reinforcement learning problems involving continuous-time environments with delays and irregular observations.
method Combines a Neural Laplace dynamics model with a model predictive control (MPC) planner.
result Achieves near expert policy performance on continuous-time delayed environments.

We start by a review of the chronology of mathematical results on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map which paved the way towards the physics of transformational acoustics. We then rederive the expression for the (anisotropic) density and bulk modulus appearing in the pressure wave equation written in the transformed coordina…

2011-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

daep learns from irregular, multimodal astronomical data.

problem Learning from irregular, multimodal astronomical sequences.
method Diffusion Autoencoder with Perceivers (daep) tokenizes, compresses, and reconstructs data.
result daep outperforms VAE and maep baselines in reconstruction and fine-scale structure preservation.