arXiv research

Study finds saddle connections on random surfaces follow Poisson distribution.

Study shows saddle connection graph's geometry and quasi-isometry properties.

Study saddle connections on hyperelliptic surfaces, finding growth rates.

We extend asymptotic formulas for saddle connections on translation surfaces.

To every half-translation surface, we associate a saddle connection graph, which is a subgraph of the arc graph. We prove that every isomorphism between two saddle connection graphs is induced by an affine homeomorphism between the underlying half-translation surfaces. We also investigate the automorphism group of the …

Study precise rates of horizontal gap shrinkage on generic translation surfaces.

For a half-translation surface (S,q), the associated saddle connection complex A(S,q) is the simplicial complex where vertices are the saddle connections on (S,q), with simplices spanned by sets of pairwise disjoint saddle connections. This complex can be naturally regarded as an induced subcomplex of the arc complex. …

Golden L surface has unbounded bunching of saddle connections

Classifies Morse flows on 3-sphere with specific saddle connections.

Bounds on saddle connections on flat spheres with conical singularities.

Translation surfaces with poles correspond to meromorphic differentials on compact Riemann surfaces. They appear in compactifications of strata of the moduli space of Abelian differentials and in the study of stability conditions. Such structures have different geometrical and dynamical properties than usual translatio…

Gradient-like flows on certain manifolds restrict saddle Morse indices to 1 or n-1.

Researchers compute gap distributions for saddle connection directions on specific translation surfaces.

Flat surfaces that correspond to $k$-differentials on compact Riemann surfaces are of finite area provided there is no pole of order $k$ or higher. We denote by \textit{flat surfaces with poles of higher order} those surfaces with flat structures defined by a $k$-differential with at least one pole of order at least $k…

We prove some estimates of the volumes of the sets of translation surfaces of unit area having several independent small saddle connections in a rank one affine submanifold.

We prove that any ergodic $SL_2(R)$-invariant probability measure on a stratum of translation surfaces satisfies strong regularity: the measure of the set of surfaces with two non-parallel saddle connections of length at most $ε_1, ε_2$ is $O(ε_1^2 ε_2^2)$. We prove a more general theorem which works for any number of …

Motivated by the study of billiards in polygons, we prove fine results for the distribution of gaps of directions of saddle connections on translation surfaces. As an application we prove that for almost every holomorphic differential $ω$ on a Riemann surface of genus $g \geq 2$ the smallest gap between saddle connecti…

Horizon saddle connections imply dense hyperbolic geodesics on dilation surfaces.

Computes constants for specific geometric structures.

Fix a translation surface $X$, and consider the measures on $X$ coming from averaging the uniform measures on all the saddle connections of length at most $R$. Then as $R\to\infty$, the weak limit of these measures exists and is equal to the Lebesgue measure on $X$. We also show that any weak limit of a subsequence of …

Researchers calculate complexity of billiard paths in regular polygons.

For a translation surface, we define the systole to be the length of the shortest saddle connection. We give a characterization of the maxima of the systole function on a stratum, and give a family of examples providing local but nonglobal maxima on each stratum of genus at least three. We further study the relation be…

Alternative proof for non-existence of complete curves in differential strata.

Study on connection points on double regular polygons, providing coordinates and proving non-connection points.

Configurations of rigid collections of saddle connections are connected component invariants for strata of the moduli space of quadratic differentials. They have been classified for strata of Abelian differentials by Eskin, Masur and Zorich. Similar work for strata of quadratic differentials has been done in Masur and …

We establish that first-order methods avoid saddle points for almost all initializations. Our results apply to a wide variety of first-order methods, including gradient descent, block coordinate descent, mirror descent and variants thereof. The connecting thread is that such algorithms can be studied from a dynamical s…

We explicitly compute the limiting gap distribution for slopes of saddle connections on the flat surface associated to the regular octagon with opposite sides identified. This is the first such computation where the Veech group of the translation surface has multiple cusps. We also show how to parametrize a Poincaré se…

Dilation surfaces are generalizations of translation surfaces where the geometric structure is modelled on the complex plane up to affine maps whose linear part is real. They are the geometric framework to study suspensions of affine interval exchange maps. However, though the $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-action is ergodic in co…

SGD learns neural networks with a complexity measure called leap.

Study describes bifurcations of gradient flows on 2-sphere with holes.

Study calculates slope gaps on polygon surfaces, finding non-unimodal distributions.

The altenating knots, links and twists projected on the S_2 sphere are identified with the phase Space of a Hamiltonian dynamic system of one degree of freedom. The saddles of the system correspond to the crossing points, the edges, to the stable and unstable manifolds, connecting the saddles. Each facxe is then orient…

In translation surfaces of finite area (corresponding to holomorphic differentials), directions of saddle connections are dense in the unit circle. On the contrary, saddle connections are fewer in translation surfaces with poles (corresponding to meromorphic differentials). The Cantor-Bendixson rank of their set of dir…

A distributed optimization method solves saddle point problems with strong concavity and convexity.

The paper calculates gap distributions for translation surfaces, focusing on the double heptagon.

Research describes all possible gradient vector fields on a sphere with up to ten singular points.

We study a notion of distance between knots, defined in terms of the number of saddles in ribbon concordances connecting the knots. We construct a lower bound on this distance using the X-action on Lee's perturbation of Khovanov homology.

Deep ReLU networks escape from the origin via saddle points with a low-rank bias.

DLNs dynamics change with variance, leading to saddle-to-saddle training phases.

Study geometric properties of loss functions to understand neural network performance.

Decentralized learning for GLMs with feature distribution and network connectivity.

Algorithm classifies saddle-focus singularities in Hamiltonian systems.

In this paper we consider the large genus asymptotics for two classes of Siegel-Veech constants associated with an arbitrary connected stratum $\mathcal{H} (α)$ of Abelian differentials. The first is the saddle connection Siegel-Veech constant $c_{\text{sc}}^{m_i, m_j} \big( \mathcal{H} (α) \big)$ counting saddle conne…

This short survey illustrates the ideas of Teichmuller dynamics. As a model application we consider the asymptotic topology of generic geodesics on a "flat" surface and count closed geodesics and saddle connections. This survey is based on the joint papers with A.Eskin and H.Masur and with M.Kontsevich.

SGD in DLNs reveals feature learning dynamics.

In this paper we study flows $\varphi:M\times\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow M$ having an isolated non-saddle set. We see that the complexity of the region of influence of an isolated non-saddle set $K$ depends on the way in which $K$ sits on the phase space at the cohomological level. We construct flows in surfaces having i…

We study the translation surfaces obtained by considering the unfoldings of the surfaces of Platonic solids. We show that they are all lattice surfaces and we compute the topology of the associated Teichmüller curves. Using an algorithm that can be used generally to compute Teichmüller curves of translation covers of p…

Researchers find entire solutions to magnetic Ginzburg-Landau equations in 4D.