Corrects classification of Seifert fibrations for lens spaces with non-orientable bases.
problem Classifying Seifert fibrations of lens spaces with non-orientable bases.
method Corrected an earlier lemma and filled a classification gap.
result Corrected the classification of Seifert fibrations for lens spaces with non-orientable bases.
Paper extends group actions on Seifert manifolds with non-orientable base space.
problem Finite, fiber- and orientation-preserving group actions on orientable Seifert manifolds with non-orientable base space.
method Constructing a double cover and isomorphism between fiber-preserving diffeomorphisms and actions on the cover.
result Construction of all actions satisfying a condition on the obstruction term and structure of finite groups.
A spine is constructed for a non-orientable surface's decorated Teichmüller space.
problem Constructing a spine for a non-orientable surface's decorated Teichmüller space.
method Building on Harer's work, constructing a spine and computing its dimension, showing equivariance with the pure mapping class group.
result A spine is constructed with minimal dimension for a punctured non-orientable surface.
Topology of non-orientable spaces without boundary is studied.
problem Topology of non-collapsed RCD spaces without boundary.
method Studied the stability of non-orientability and topology under Gromov-Hausdorff convergence.
result Non-orientable spaces without boundary have a stable ramified double cover.
Counting lattice points in moduli space of Klein surfaces.
problem Count lattice points in moduli space of Klein surfaces.
method Introduced metric Möbius graphs, counted lattice points weighted by non-orientability measure, deduced recursion for volumes.
result Proved refined version of Norbury's recursion and computed refined Euler characteristic.
Study on non-orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their deformations.
problem Understanding the deformation space of non-orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Computing the deformation space of pairs (M^3, Δ) and determining representations in Isom(H^3).
result Existence of deformations not realizable as pair deformations.
New recursion formula for non-orientable surfaces resolves divergences.
problem Computing volumes of moduli spaces for non-orientable surfaces.
method Generalization of Mirzakhani's recursion to non-orientable surfaces, handling divergences with integral kernels.
result Regularized volumes can be computed with a cutoff on crosscap size.
Study shortest non-separating curves on non-orientable surfaces, proving NP-hardness and tractability.
problem Computing shortest non-separating simple closed curves on non-orientable surfaces.
method Developed tools for computing shortest curves, proving NP-hardness and tractability.
result Proved NP-hardness and fixed-parameter tractability for computing shortest orienting curves, and polynomial-time algorithm for non-orienting curves.
We prove a version of the classical Runge and Mergelyan uniform approximation theorems for non-orientable minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space R3. Then, we obtain some geometric applications. Among them, we emphasize the following ones: 1. A Gunning-Narasimhan type theorem for non-orientable conformal surfaces. 2. An …
The pants graph of a non-orientable surface is quasi-isometric to its Teichmüller space.
problem Understanding the relationship between pants graphs and Teichmüller spaces of non-orientable surfaces.
method Constructing a map between pants graphs induced by lifting pants decompositions and proving quasi-isometric embeddings.
result The pants graph of a non-orientable surface is quasi-isometric to its Teichmüller space.
We show that the orientable double covering space of an indecomposable non-orientable PD3-complex has torsion free fundamental group.
Characterizes closures of mapping class group orbits on non-orientable surfaces.
problem Understanding closures of orbits in Teichmüller spaces for non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzes closures in ML and PML for measured laminations, projective measured laminations, and points. result Characterizes closures of weighted two-sided curves in ML. We prove that the homology of the mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces stabilizes with the genus of the surface. Combining our result with recent work of Madsen and Weiss, we obtain that the classifying space of the stable mapping class group of non-orientable surfaces, up to homology isomorphism, is the inf…
The aim of this work is to adapt the complex analytic methods originating in modern Oka theory to the study of non-orientable conformal minimal surfaces in Rn for any n≥3. These methods, which we develop essentially from the first principles, enable us to prove that the space of conformal minimal immer…
Study on dimensions of mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces.
problem Determining dimensions of mapping class groups for non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzing cohomological, geometric, and virtual dimensions.
result Equal dimensions for Ng when geq4,5. New method uses non-orientable surfaces to describe knots in 3-manifolds.
problem Describing and understanding knots in 3-manifolds.
method Defining a plat-like representation based on embedded non-orientable surfaces.
result Any link in the manifold can be represented as a plat-like closure of a surface braid group element.
In this paper we deal with Seifert fibre spaces, which are compact 3-manifolds admitting a foliation by circles. We give a combinatorial description for these manifolds in all the possible cases: orientable, non-orientable, closed, with boundary. Moreover, we compute a potentially sharp upper bound for their complexity…
By considering appropriate finite covering spaces of closed non-orientable surfaces, we construct linear representations of their mapping class group which have finite index image in certain big arithmetic groups.
In the symplectization of standard contact 3-space, R×R3, it is known that an orientable Lagrangian cobordism between a Legendrian knot and itself, also known as an orientable Lagrangian endocobordism for the Legendrian knot, must have genus 0. We show that any Legendrian knot has a non-or…
The study proves non-orientable surfaces can map to a torus.
problem Embedding non-orientable surfaces in 4D space.
method Proving mapping to a 2D torus for 2-convex surfaces.
result Projective plane and Klein bottle cannot be 2-convex in 4D space.
Study trisections of non-orientable 4-manifolds with boundary.
problem Understanding trisections in non-orientable 4-manifolds.
method Introduced trisections of non-orientable 4-manifolds with boundary, proved a non-orientable analogue of a theorem, and discussed adaptation of trisection theory.
result Existence of trisection diagrams and Kirby diagrams for closed non-orientable 4-manifolds.
Let M be a compact closed non-orientable surface. We show that the space of representations of the fundamental group of M into PSL(2,R) has exactly two connected components. These two components are the preimages of a certain Stiefel-Whitney characteristic class, computed in a similar way as the Euler class in the orie…
New statistical convex-cocompactness found for non-orientable surfaces.
problem Understanding the dynamics of mapping class groups on non-orientable surfaces.
method Using Teichmüller space and complexity length, showing geodesics leave compact regions with exponentially low probabilities.
result Statistical convex-cocompactness of mapping class groups on non-orientable surfaces.
This article is a survey article that gives detailed constructions and illustrations of some of the standard examples of non-orientable surfaces that are embedded and immersed in 4-dimensional space. The illustrations depend upon their 3-dimensional projections, and indeed the illustrations here depend upon a further p…
Embeds complex 3-manifolds into symplectic space.
problem Embedding non-orientable 3-manifolds into symplectic spaces.
method Lagrangian embedding of specific 3-manifolds into standard symplectic 6-space.
result Minimal Maslov number of embedding is 1.
Study shows non-orientable manifolds restrict signature-changing metrics globally.
problem Global obstructions to signature-changing metrics on non-orientable manifolds.
method Explicit geometric constructions based on Möbius strip topology.
result Radical of signature-changing metrics cannot be everywhere transverse.
This paper calculates the non-orientable 4-genus for knots with 10 crossings.
problem Determining the non-orientable 4-genus for knots with a specific number of crossings.
method Calculating the minimal first Betti number of non-orientable surfaces smoothly embedded in a 4-ball with boundary the knot.
result The non-orientable 4-genus for knots with 10 crossings has been calculated.
Study non-orientable link cobordisms using Floer homologies to prove inequalities.
problem Prove inequalities involving Euler characteristic and local maxima in non-orientable cobordisms.
method Use unoriented instanton and knot Floer homology to introduce unoriented versions of band unknotting number and refined cobordism distance.
result Show that the difference between unoriented refined cobordism distance of a knot from the unknot and non-orientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large.
Study curves in non-orientable surfaces with specific intersection properties.
problem Enumerate and understand curves in non-orientable surfaces with intersection constraints.
method Generalized construction of Malestein-Rivin-Theran to non-orientable surfaces.
result Lower bound for maximum number of curves in generic non-orientable surface.
Analog of Kauffman bracket for non-orientable knots in thickened surface.
problem Defining an invariant for non-orientable knots in a non-orientable surface.
method Proposes an analog of the Kauffman bracket polynomial with modified sign rules.
result Polynomial is an isotopy invariant and independent of classical Kauffman for orientable covers.
The paper identifies 2^(k+1) distinct components of hyperbolic representations.
problem Understanding the structure of representations of non-orientable surfaces.
method Analysis of square map and Stiefel-Whitney classes.
result There are 2^(k+1) connected components of representations.
We give a concrete example of an infinite sequence of (pn,qn)-lens spaces L(pn,qn) with natural triangulations T(pn,qn) with pn taterahedra such that L(pn,qn) contains a certain non-orientable closed surface which is fundamental with respect to T(pn,qn) and of minimal crosscap number among a…
In this paper, we address the problem of orientation that naturally arises when representing shapes like curves or surfaces as currents. In the field of computational anatomy, the framework of currents has indeed proved very efficient to model a wide variety of shapes. However, in such approaches, orientation of shapes…
New method finds non-orientable knotted surfaces in 4D.
problem Reducibility of knotted surfaces in 4D.
method Elementary obstruction to reducibility.
result Construction of stably irreducible non-orientable surfaces.
By considering negative surgeries on a knot K in S3, we derive a lower bound to the non-orientable slice genus γ4(K) in terms of the signature σ(K) and the concordance invariants Vi(K), which strengthens a previous bound given by Batson, and which coincides with Ozsváth-Stipsicz-Szabó's bound in…
Study finds new knots that bound Möbius bands in 4D space.
problem Identifying knots that bound Möbius bands in 4D.
method Large-scale computational search with knot invariant obstructions.
result New examples of knots with non-orientable 4-genus equal to 1.
Researchers refine the non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots using Batson's surfaces.
problem Finding the minimum non-orientable 4-genus for torus knots. method Developed and analyzed Batson's non-orientable spanning surfaces in B4. result Batson's surfaces minimize the non-orientable 4-genus among certain surfaces. Minimal stretch factor for non-orientable surfaces is small.
problem Finding the minimal stretch factor for pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on non-orientable surfaces.
method Adapting Thurston's theory of fibered faces for non-orientable 3-manifolds.
result The minimal stretch factor is asymptotically on the order of 1/g.
Researchers compute bounds and formulas for non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots.
problem Measuring the minimum genus of non-orientable surfaces bounded by torus knots.
method Computed bounds and provided a generalized formula for non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots.
result Computed bounds and a generalized formula for non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots.
Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces up to genus 5.
problem Representing involutions on non-orientable surfaces.
method Dehn twist--crosscap slide presentations.
result Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces of genera up to 5.
Polynomial-time algorithm finds short non-orientable loops intersecting graph edges up to 30 times.
problem Finding short non-orientable loops intersecting graph edges efficiently.
method Combining computational biology techniques with recent graph theory results.
result Existence of short canonical non-orientable systems of loops.
Study volumes of Klein surfaces, extending Mirzakhani's recursion.
problem Volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Klein surfaces.
method Generalization of Mirzakhani's recursion, integration over regularised moduli space.
result Explicit formula for Klein bottle moduli space volumes, recursion for arbitrary topologies.
Simplified presentations for non-orientable surface mapping class groups.
problem Presenting the mapping class group of non-orientable surfaces.
method Provided simpler infinite presentations.
result Simplified presentations for the group.
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.
New invariant distinguishes non-orientable surfaces.
problem Distinguishing non-orientable surfaces bounded by the same knot.
method Mixed invariant from Lee and Bar-Natan deformations of Khovanov homology.
result Distinguishes exotic non-orientable surfaces.
Study on non-orientable surfaces for maximal disc packings.
problem Maximizing disc packings in non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzing compact non-orientable surfaces of genus g≥3 for maximal k-packings. result Characterization of maximal disc packings in non-orientable surfaces.
Study on loops on non-orientable surfaces, determining cardinality and order.
problem Determining the cardinality and order of maximal complete 1-systems of loops on non-orientable surfaces.
method Proved the cardinality of maximal systems of arcs pairwise-intersecting at most once on a non-orientable surface is 2∣χ∣(∣χ∣+1), and used this to determine the cardinality of maximal complete 1-systems of loops. result Exact cardinality of maximal complete 1-systems of loops on punctured projective planes is determined.
Study homology groups for non-orientable surfaces with boundary.
problem Determine the first homology group for mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces.
method Calculate the first homology group with twisted coefficients.
result Explicitly determined the first homology group for various mapping class groups.