arXiv research

We study configurations of immersed curves in surfaces and surfaces in 3-manifolds. Among other results, we show that primitive curves have only finitely many configurations which minimize the number of double points. We give examples of minimal configurations not realized by geodesics in any hyperbolic metric.

Solves Plateau-Douglas problem for singular configurations in general metric spaces.

Minimal elastic networks minimize energy and length at fixed angles.

The study finds conditions for area-minimizing cones over submanifolds.

Study on tilings of the plane with two types of tiles of varying areas.

The study finds optimal minimum distances for Green's energy points on compact manifolds.

Minimal non-arithmetic hyperbolic 3-orbifold found with least volume.

Hexagonal norm double bubble problem solved with minimal configurations.

Any finite configuration of curves with minimal intersections on a surface is a configuration of shortest geodesics for some Riemannian metric on the surface. The metric can be chosen to make the lengths of these geodesics equal to the number of intersections along them.

The study of polygon areas with fixed perimeter.

Researchers find optimal configurations of complex knots and links.

When using Traizet's regeneration technique to construct minimal surfaces, the simplest nontrivial configurations are given as the roots of polynomials that satisfy a hypergeometric differential equation. We exhibit examples of simple minimal surfaces exhibiting the same behavior.

Smectic liquid crystals are materials formed by stacking deformable, fluid layers. Though smectics prefer to have flat, uniformly-spaced layers, boundary conditions can impose curvature on the layers. Since the layer spacing and curvature are intertwined, the problem of finding minimal configurations for the layers bec…

Two surfaces minimize variance of Gaussian curvature.

Researchers analyze geodesic complexity in robot paths on tree graphs.

Role mining tackles the problem of finding a role-based access control (RBAC) configuration, given an access-control matrix assigning users to access permissions as input. Most role mining approaches work by constructing a large set of candidate roles and use a greedy selection strategy to iteratively pick a small subs…

Bayesian optimization (BO) aims to minimize a given blackbox function using a model that is updated whenever new evidence about the function becomes available. Here, we address the problem of BO under partially right-censored response data, where in some evaluations we only obtain a lower bound on the function value. T…

Kernel-based algorithm optimizes cellular network configuration through multi-task learning.

Study lens spaces' definite fillings, classifying those with specific inequalities.

Classifies low energy maps from curved surfaces into spheres.

New minimal surfaces found using Toda lattice and integrable systems.

The paper proves the openness of K-semistability for Fano varieties.

In this note we complete the discussion of minimality of symplectic fiber sums. We find, that for fiber sums along spheres the minimality of the sum is determined by the cases discussed by M. Usher and one additional case: If the sum is the result of the rational blow-down of a symplectic -4-sphere in X, then it is non…

For any flat projective family $(\mX,\mL)\rightarrow C$ such that the generic fibre $\mX_η$ is a klt Q-Fano variety and $\mL|_{\mX_η}\sim_{Q}-K_{X_η}$, we use the techniques from the minimal model program (MMP) to modify the total family. The end product is a family such that every fiber is a klt Q-Fano variety. Moreov…

We study a recent general criterion for the injectivity of the conformal immersion of a Riemannian manifold into higher dimensional Euclidean space, and show how it gives rise to important conditions for Weierstrass-Ennerper lifts defined in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ endowed with a conformal metric. Among the corollar…

In this paper we prove the existence of families of n-dimensional complete embedded minimal submanifolds of C^n with a prescribed configuration of k>1 asymptotic planes. These submanifolds are obtained by desingularizing the intersection of the asymptotes, using a gluing theorem applied to a generalization of a special…

Develops a new theory of width for embedded circles in Riemannian manifolds.

The paper disproves compactness for high-energy Willmore immersions and finds minimal bubbles on Willmore surfaces.

In this paper we study a notion of topological complexity for the motion planning problem. The topological complexity is a number which measures discontinuity of the process of motion planning in the configuration space X. More precisely, it is the minimal number k such that there are k different motion planning rules,…

Study minimal networks on spheres and balls near standard metrics.

Rigidity of critical eigensections on spheres proven.

BONSAI optimizes parameters while respecting a default configuration, reducing unnecessary changes.

Study of convergence of point-object configurations to a charged dust continuum.

Minimal generating sets found for Kim-Manturov groups.

In 1974, Gehring posed the problem of minimizing the length of two linked curves separated by unit distance. This constraint can be viewed as a measure of thickness for links, and the ratio of length over thickness as the ropelength. In this paper we refine Gehring's problem to deal with links in a fixed link-homotopy …

Study finds minimal length networks connecting three points in Heisenberg group.

We consider a generic configuration of regions, consisting of a collection of distinct compact regions $\{Ω_i\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which may be either smooth regions disjoint from the others or regions which meet on their piecewise smooth boundaries $\mathcal{B}_i$ in a generic way. We introduce a skeletal linking …

This paper details a series of experiments in searching for minimal energy configurations for knots and links using the computer program KnotPlot. The most interesting phenomena found in these experiments is the dependence of the trajectories of energy descent upon the initial geometric conditions of the knotted embedd…

Most known examples of doubly periodic minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with parallel ends limit as a foliation of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by horizontal noded planes, with the location of the nodes satisfying a set of balance equations. Conversely, for each set of points providing a balanced configuration, there is a correspo…

Solves the quintuple bubble problem on spheres and Euclidean spaces.

Constructs classifiers for neural networks with specific data configurations.

We consider the sigma models where the base metric is proportional to the metric of the configuration space. We show that the corresponding sigma model equation admits a Lax pair. We also show that this type of sigma models in two dimensions are intimately related to the minimal surfaces in a flat pseudo Riemannian 3-s…

We consider isotropic non lower semicontinuous weighted perimeter functionals defined on partitions of domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Besides identifying a condition on the structure of the domain which ensures the existence of minimizing configurations, we describe the structure of such minima, as well as their regularity…

Minimal networks minimize length and mass in certain configurations.

Positive configurations of points in the affine building were introduced in \cite{Le} as the basic object needed to define higher laminations. We start by giving a self-contained, elementary definition of positive configurations of points in the affine building and their basic properties. Then we study the geometry of …

The edges of torn plastic sheets and growing leaves often display hierarchical buckling patterns. We show that this complex morphology (i) emerges even in zero strain configurations, and (ii) is driven by a competition between the two principal curvatures, rather than between bending and stretching. We identify the key…

We derive a dimensionally-reduced limit theory for an $n$-dimensional nonlinear elastic body that is slender along $k$ dimensions. The starting point is to view an elastic body as an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold together with a not necessarily isometric $W^{1,2}$-immersion in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. The…

Framework optimizes expensive manufacturing processes efficiently.