Monodromy map from differential systems to character variety is generically immersive for complex G-representations.
problem Characterizing when the monodromy map is immersive for differential systems.
method Analyzing the space of g-differential systems on a compact Riemann surface and the character variety of G-representations. result The monodromy map is an immersion at the generic point when the complex dimension of G is at least three. Study shows monodromy kernels are large, failing to prove commensurability in specific strata.
problem Proving commensurability of mapping class groups through monodromy kernels.
method Analyzing monodromy maps for specific strata in translation surfaces.
result Kernels of monodromy maps contain a non-abelian free group of rank 2.
Positive braids linked to knot invariants and geometric monodromy groups.
problem Understanding knot invariants and geometric monodromy groups for positive braids.
method Associate braid monodromy groups to positive braids, identify these groups with framed mapping class groups for knots, and use these to determine knot invariants.
result Geometric monodromy groups of irreducible singularities are determined by genus and Arf invariant of associated knots.
Noninjective monodromy found in polynomial critical point tracking.
problem Tracking critical points in polynomials leads to noninjective monodromy.
method Monic squarefree complex polynomials with prescribed critical point multiplicities.
result Monodromy map is noninjective for polynomials with exactly two critical points.
Study shows hyperbolic knots' monodromy without fixed points.
problem Understanding fixed points in knot monodromy.
method Using Baldwin--Hu--Sivek argument and knot Floer homology.
result Monodromy of hyperbolic fibered knots is freely isotopic to a map with no fixed points.
This paper generalizes monodromy maps for projective structures with poles.
problem Understanding the monodromy of projective structures with poles.
method Generalizing the monodromy map from compact curves to those with poles.
result The monodromy map for projective structures with poles is a local biholomorphism.
The paper characterizes mapping class groups related to abelian differentials.
problem Understanding the relationship between strata of abelian differentials and mapping class groups.
method Using the topological monodromy representation, the authors show that the fundamental group of a stratum surjects onto a specific subgroup of the mapping class group.
result The framed mapping class groups are finitely generated and explicitly characterized.
We study projective structures on a surface having poles of prescribed orders. We obtain a monodromy map from a complex manifold parameterising such structures to the stack of framed PGL2(C) local systems on the associated marked bordered surface. We prove that the image of this map is contained in…
Study of monodromy and vanishing cycles for complete intersection curves.
problem Computing topological monodromy of complete intersection curves.
method Innovative tools for studying monodromy of tensor products of very ample line bundles, induction on multi-degree.
result Answer given by the r-spin mapping class group associated to the maximal root of the adjoint line bundle.
Study the monodromy and center-focus problems for rational maps defined by products of generic lines.
problem Monodromy and center-focus problems for rational maps defined by products of generic lines.
method Analyze the 1-homology group and meromorphic 1-forms to characterize vanishing Abelian integrals.
result Characterize meromorphic 1-forms whose Abelian integrals vanish on cycles around a center singularity.
Monodromy and vanishing cycles computed for ample linear systems on simply connected surfaces.
problem Characterizing curves that can be vanishing cycles in degenerations of linear systems.
method Computing mapping class group-valued monodromy and identifying it with r-spin mapping class groups.
result Identifies simple closed curves as vanishing cycles and provides characterizations of discriminants and Lefschetz fibrations.
By a construction of Berstein and Edmonds every proper branched cover f between manifolds is a factor of a branched covering orbit map from a locally connected and locally compact Hausdorff space called the monodromy space of f to the target manifold. For proper branched covers between 2-manifolds the monodromy space i…
We consider spaces of plane curves in the setting of algebraic geometry and of singularity theory. On one hand there are the complete linear systems, on the other we consider unfolding spaces of bivariate polynomials of Brieskorn-Pham type. For suitable open subspaces we can define the bifurcation braid monodromy takin…
The article extends Thurston's Grafting Theorem to signed spaces and defines a framed monodromy map.
problem Extending Thurston's Grafting Theorem to signed spaces.
method Proves the analogue of Thurston's Grafting Theorem for signed spaces, defines a framed monodromy map.
result Characterizes PSL(2,C)-representations and shows the monodromy map is a local biholomorphism.
Characterizes monodromies on orbifolds using antitwists.
problem Understanding monodromies on orientable 2-orbifolds.
method Characterizes monodromies as products of antitwists with respect to a cylinder decomposition.
result Characterizes many divide monodromies as pseudo-Anosov with stretch factors close to one.
The paper proves a grafting theorem for meromorphic projective structures and shows the monodromy map is a local homeomorphism.
problem Understanding projective structures on Riemann surfaces with poles.
method Proves a grafting theorem involving crowned hyperbolic surfaces and uses the monodromy map to a decorated character variety.
result The monodromy map to the decorated character variety is a local homeomorphism.
Proves theorem about meromorphic projective structures with complex poles.
problem Proving a theorem about meromorphic projective structures with complex poles.
method Using coordinates on the moduli space of framed representations from Fock and Goncharov.
result Proves the analogue of a theorem of Gallo-Kapovich-Marden.
The study provides obstructions and unusual subgroup properties in mapping class groups.
problem Obstructing finite index monodromy and unusual subgroup properties in mapping class groups.
method Analyzes geometric monodromy groups and Johnson filtrations to provide obstructions and unusual subgroup properties.
result Construction of subgroups with unusual properties in mapping class groups.
Study monodromy factorizations for lines on del Pezzo surfaces.
problem Understanding monodromy factorizations for lines on del Pezzo surfaces.
method Listed monodromy factorizations in the mapping class group of a torus.
result Explicit correspondence between factorizations and roots of E8.
Computes the decomposition of rank-three bundles over the projective line with three marked points.
problem Decomposing rank-three bundles over the projective line with three marked points.
method Using the monodromy derivative to compute the roots of the bundles.
result Computes the exact decomposition of rank-three bundles for m=3. 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 …
Derives the derivative of the Riemann-Hilbert map for surface connections.
problem Computing the derivative of the Riemann-Hilbert map for surface connections.
method Computes the derivative of the Riemann-Hilbert map for a pair of a closed Riemann surface and a holomorphic connection.
result Recovering previously obtained results on the injectivity locus of the derivative map.
Study shows infinite kernels in topological monodromy for curve families.
problem Understanding kernels of topological monodromy representations.
method Extending Kuno's arguments and using Carlson-Toledo techniques.
result Kernels are infinite for certain linear systems on surfaces.
Study on surface bundles, CAT(0) groups, and mapping class groups.
problem Properties of surface bundles and their mapping class groups.
method Geometric and group theoretical analysis of surface bundles and their monodromies.
result Constraints on Kodaira fibrations and properties of surface bundles over surfaces.
Abstract: Deltoid map connects complex dynamics and algebra.
problem Understanding complex dynamics through a specific map.
method Analyzing the geometry and algebra of the deltoid map.
result Illustrates Julia set and iterated monodromy group.
We consider the space of smooth complex projective plane curves of degree d. Defined over this is the tautological family of plane curves, and hence there is a monodromy representation into the mapping class group of the fiber. We show two results concerning this monodromy group. First, we show that the presence of an …
The pentagram map's limit point is related to infinitesimal perturbations of polygons.
problem Understanding the limit point of the pentagram map and its relation to polygon perturbations.
method Interpreting Glick's operator as the infinitesimal monodromy of a polygon.
result Glick's operator measures the extent to which a perturbed polygon does not close up.
Every compact symplectic 4-manifold can be realized as a branched cover of the complex projective plane branched along a symplectic curve with cusp and node singularities; the covering map is induced by a triple of sections of a "very ample" line bundle. In this paper, we give an explicit formula describing the behavio…
Given an ample line bundle on a toric surface, a question of Donaldson asks which simple closed curves can be vanishing cycles for nodal degenerations of smooth curves in the complete linear system. This paper provides a complete answer. This is accomplished by reformulating the problem in terms of the mapping class gr…
This work computes integral variation and monodromy maps for plane curve singularities.
problem Computing integral variation and monodromy maps for plane curve singularities.
method Constructing analytic models, vector fields, and gyrographs to compute maps explicitly.
result Effective algorithms and gyrographs for computing integral variation and monodromy maps.
Study monodromy relations in Seifert fibered spaces for 3-manifold fillings.
problem Understanding symplectic fillings of Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.
method Analyzes monodromy factorizations and their impact on fillings.
result Computes and bounds Euler characteristics of different fillings.
We study monodromies of plane curve singularities and pseudo-periodic homeomorphisms of oriented surfaces with boundary, following an original idea of the first author: tête-à-tête graphs and twists. We completely characterize mapping classes that can be represented by tête-à-tête twists, and generalize the notion to b…
We give necessary and sufficient local conditions for the simultaneous unitarizability of a set of analytic matrix maps from an analytic 1-manifold into SL_n(C) under conjugation by a single analytic matrix map. We apply this result to the monodromy arising from an integrable partial differential equation to construct …
A question of Griffiths-Schmid asks when the monodromy group of an algebraic family of complex varieties is arithmetic. We resolve this in the affirmative for the class of algebraic surfaces known as Atiyah-Kodaira manifolds, which have base and fibers equal to complete algebraic curves. Our methods are topological in …
Study stabilizes components of Galois cover moduli spaces.
problem Decide equivalence and stable equivalence of monodromy maps.
method Develop algebraic framework to study equivalence classes of monodromy maps.
result Recover a homological invariant that distinguishes equivalence classes.
In this paper, we study the monodromy of the Hitchin fibration for rank 2 vector bundles over hyperelliptic curves. We reduce the problem to studying a surface braid group generalization of the classical Burau representation, and give a combinatorial method for computing this representation.
We introduce a new approach for computing the monodromy of the Hitchin map and use this to completely determine the monodromy for the moduli spaces of L-twisted G-Higgs bundles, for the groups G=GL(2,C), SL(2,C) and PSL(2,C). We also determine the twisted Chern class of the regula…
This paper shows similarities in deformation spaces of Kleinian groups and anti-holomorphic maps.
problem Comparing deformation spaces of Kleinian reflection groups and anti-holomorphic rational maps.
method Established an analogue of Thurston's compactness theorem for critically fixed anti-rational maps and characterized deformation space interactions.
result Deformation spaces of Kleinian reflection groups and anti-holomorphic rational maps share striking similarities.
New open books solve a long-standing surface mapping class group question.
problem Understanding the mapping class group of surfaces with boundary.
method Constructing non-positive open books with once-punctured torus pages.
result Monoid of positive monodromies equals the monoid of monodromies supporting Stein-fillable contact structures if and only if the surface is planar.
New connection between complex analysis and PDE for spherical conical metrics.
problem Understanding spectral properties of spherical conical metrics.
method Analyzing monodromy, eigenfunctions, and developing maps.
result Monodromy reducibility implies real-valued eigenfunction with eigenvalue 2.
Holomorphic curves in moduli spaces are quasi-isometrically immersed.
problem Understanding the geometric properties of holomorphic curves in moduli spaces.
method Analyzing the quasi-isometric immersion of holomorphic maps from hyperbolic surfaces to moduli spaces.
result Holomorphic curves are quasi-isometrically immersed with parameters depending on surface and moduli space properties.
Unified understanding of integrability obstructions for Lie algebroids.
problem Equivalence of integrability obstructions for transitive Lie algebroids.
method Unified approach using cohomological and homotopical methods.
result Unified understanding of integrability obstructions.
Constructed genus zero PALF structures on Akbulut-Yasui plugs.
problem Creating PALF structures on specific 3-manifolds.
method Positive factorization in mapping class groups.
result Described monodromies of PALFs on Akbulut-Yasui plugs.
Paper proves achiral Lefschetz fibrations from non-orientable Lefschetz fibrations.
problem Understanding achiral Lefschetz fibrations from non-orientable ones.
method Composition of standard orientation double covering map and non-orientable Lefschetz fibration.
result Specification of a monodromy factorization for the composition.
Formula for signature of handlebody bundles, interpreting cohomology.
problem Signature of handlebody bundles and their monodromy.
method Explicit formula using homological monodromy.
result Cobounding function of Meyer's signature cocycle on handlebody group.
Via considerations of symplectic reduction, monodromy, mirror symmetry and Chern-Simons functionals, a conjecture is proposed on the existence of special Lagrangians in the hamiltonian deformation class of a given Lagrangian submanifold of a Calabi-Yau manifold. It involves a stability condition for graded Lagrangians,…
A groupoid is a small category in which each morphism has an inverse. A topological groupoid is a groupoid in which both sets of objects and morphisms have topologies such that all groupoid structure maps are continuous. The notion of monodromy groupoid of a topological groupoid generalises those of fundamental groupoi…
For large genus, precise monodromy groups are calculated for surface covers.
problem Calculating precise monodromy groups for large genus surface covers.
method Hodge-theoretic methods, including a generic Torelli theorem with coefficients.
result Precise connected monodromy groups are calculated for large genus surface covers.