arXiv research

Proves intersection properties of minimal hypersurfaces in various spaces.

The study finds that most minimal surfaces in generic 4D manifolds intersect in complex ways.

Harmonic maps intersect all minimal surfaces with bounded curvature.

The paper constructs minimal coherent filling pairs on surfaces.

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

Two minimal hypersurfaces in a ball intersect in any half-ball.

In this short note, we construct a minimally intersecting pair of simple closed curves that fill a genus 2 surface with an odd, greater than 3, number of punctures. This finishes the determination of minimally intersecting filling pairs for all surfaces completing the work of Aougab-Huang and Aougab-Taylor.

Conditions for curves on a torus with specific pairwise intersections.

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

Improved bounds on geodesic intersections on hyperbolic surfaces.

Let $S_{g}$ denote the closed orientable surface of genus $g$. We construct exponentially many mapping class group orbits of pairs of simple closed curves which fill $S_{g}$ and intersect minimally, by showing that such orbits are in correspondence with the solutions of a certain permutation equation in the symmetric g…

We find the minimal number of self-intersections of the boundary of a surface of genus g generically immersed in the plane.

New origamis found for surfaces with minimal intersections.

Given an orientable surface with boundary and a free homotopy class, we present a purely combinatorial algorithm which produces a representative of that homotopy class with minimal self intersection.

Minimal geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces are long.

Let $S_g$ be a closed surface of genus $g$ and let $(α, β)$ be a filling pair on $S_g$; then $i(α, β) \geq 2g-1$, where $i$ is the (geometric) intersection number. Aougab and Huang demonstrated that (exponentially many) minimally-intersecting filling pairs exist on $S_g$ when $g > 2$ by a construction w…

We prove that a connected properly immersed minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space with infinite symmetry group whose intersection with a ball of radius R is less than 2\piR^2 is a plane, a catenoid or a Scherk singly-periodic minimal surface. In particular, we prove that the only periodic minimal desingularization of a …

The problem on the minimal number (with respect to deformation) of intersection points of two closed curves on a surface is solved. Following the Nielsen approach, we define classes of intersection points and essential classes of intersection points, which "are preserved under deformation" and whose total number is cal…

Study proves minimality of certain hyperplane intersections in wide cones.

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…

The paper proves a stronger Frankel theorem for minimal hypersurfaces of $S^k$.

A flat virtual link is a finite collection of oriented closed curves $\mathfrak L$ on an oriented surface $M$ considered up to virtual homotopy, i.e., a composition of elementary stabilizations, destabilizations, and homotopies. Specializing to a pair of curves $(L_1,L_2)$, we show that the minimal number of intersecti…

Machine learning predicts minimal surfaces for knots, supporting a conjecture.

Four counterexamples in surface homology.

In the eighties Goldman discovered a Lie algebra structure on the vector space generated by the free homotopy classes of oriented curves on an oriented surface. The Lie bracket [a,b] is defined as the signed sum over the intersection points of a and b of the loop product of at the intersection points. If one of the cla…

Paper finds surfaces where KVol is close to the surface's genus.

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…

Paper solves a conjecture about minimal surfaces using sphere intersections and Weierstrass data.

Study minimizes crossing points of up to 12 curves on a genus 2 surface.

Two infinite sequences of minimal surfaces in space are constructed using symmetry analysis. In particular, explicit formulas are obtained for the self-intersecting minimal surface that fills the trefoil knot.

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…

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.

Study on minimal surfaces and their Gauss maps intersecting a specific hypersurface.

In this paper we investigate free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball in Euclidean 3-space, and by using holomorphic techniques we prove that intersection curves of free boundary minimal surfaces with the unit sphere are all circles.

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…

Decomposes J-energy into simpler intersection numbers for stability analysis.

This paper classifies minimal fillings of lens spaces.

This paper classifies and determines the length of the shortest filling pairs on a specific type of surface.

The paper proves conditions for the existence of holomorphic discs in Kähler manifolds.

Suppose $M_{1}$ and $M_{2}$ are two special Lagrangian submanifolds of $\Rtn$ with boundary that intersect transversally at one point $p$. The set $M_{1} \cup M_{2}$ is a singular special Lagrangian variety with an isolated singularity at the point of intersection. Suppose further that the tangent planes at the interse…

Develops a method to compute Morse homology for clean but not necessarily transverse intersections.

This is a revision of some expository lecture notes written originally for a 5-hour minicourse on the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and its applications in 3-dimensional contact topology. The main lectures are aimed primarily at students and require only a minimal background in holomorphic curve t…

Study shows orbits on a specific surface without intersecting geodesics.

For each integer $k \geq 2$, we apply gluing methods to construct sequences of minimal surfaces embedded in the round $3$-sphere. We produce two types of sequences, all desingularizing collections of intersecting Clifford tori. Sequences of the first type converge to a collection of $k$ Clifford tori intersecting with …

Consider a transitive action of a Lie group $G$ on a (real analytic) manifold $M$ of dimension $m$, and two (embedded) submanifolds $A$ and $B$ in $M$ of sufficiently large class and of dimension $k$ and $l$, respectively. We prove that, for a generic $σ\in G$, the intersection $σ(A) \cap B$ is transversal, whence a su…

Let X be a pseudomanifold. In this text, we use a simplicial blow-up to define a cochain complex whose cohomology with coefficients in a field, is isomorphic to the intersection cohomology of X, introduced by M. Goresky and R. MacPherson. We do it simplicially in the setting of a filtered version of face sets, also cal…

In this paper we investigate a family of Hamiltonian-minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in ${\mathbb C}^m$, ${\mathbb C}P^m$ and other symplectic toric manifolds constructed from intersections of real quadrics. In particular, we explain the nature of this phenomenon by proving H-minimality in a more conceptual way, and pr…

We consider the problem of minimizing the bending or elastic energy among Jordan curves confined in a given open set $Ω$. We prove existence, regularity and some structural properties of minimizers. In particular, when $Ω$ is convex we show that a minimizer is necessarily a convex curve. We also provide an example of a…