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Study cohomological equation for robotic screw motions on SE(3).

Study non-minimal surfaces in homogeneous 3-manifolds with constant mean curvature.

New minimal surfaces derived from helicoids.

Study constant mean curvature tubes in homogeneous spaces.

Classifies surfaces with zero mean curvature in a light cone.

This paper develops efficient algorithms for multibody dynamics using screw and Lie group theory.

New approach approximates c-space geometry of multi-loop linkages.

We prove that a primitive harmonic map is equivariant if and only if it admits a holomorphic potential of degree one. We investigate when the equivariant harmonic map is periodic, and as an application discuss constant mean curvature cylinders with screw motion symmetries.

Examples of complete minimal surfaces properly embedded in H^2 x R have been extensively studied and the literature contains a plethora of nontrivial ones. In this paper we construct a large class of examples of complete minimal surfaces embedded in H^2 x R, not necessarily proper, which are invariant by a vertical tra…

There exists a properly embedded minimal surface of genus one with one end. The end is asymptotic to the end of the helicoid. This genus one helicoid is constructed as the limit of a continuous one-parameter family of screw-motion invariant minimal surfaces--also asymptotic to the helicoid--that have genus equal to one…

For each integer m>1 and l>0 we construct a pair of compact embedded minimal surfaces of genus 1+4m(m-1)l. These surfaces desingularize the m Clifford tori meeting each other along a great circle at the angle of π/m. They are invariant under a finite group of screw motions and have no reflection symmetry across a great…

A 3-parameter family of helical tubular surfaces obtained by screw revolving a circle provides a useful pedagogical example of how to study geodesics on a surface that admits a 1-parameter symmetry group, but is not as simple as a surface of revolution like the torus which it contains as a special case. It serves as a …

Up to isomorphism there are six fixed-point free crystallographic groups in Euclidean Space generated by twists (screw motions). In each case, an orientable 3-manifold is obtained as the quotient of E3 by such a group. The cubic tessellation of E3 induces tessellations on each such manifold. These tessellations of the …

The class of traveling wave solutions of the sine-Gordon equation is known to be in 1-1 correspondence with the class of (necessarily singular) pseudospherical surfaces in Euclidean space with screw-motion symmetry: the pseudospherical helicoids. We explicitly describe all pseudospherical helicoids in terms of elliptic…

Large twist-angle grain boundaries in layered structures are often described by Scherk's first surface whereas small twist-angle grain boundaries are usually described in terms of an array of screw dislocations. We show that there is no essential distinction between these two descriptions and that, in particular, their…

We develop a conservation law for constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces introduced by Korevaar, Kusner and Solomon, and provide a converse, so as to characterize CMC surfaces by a conservation law. We work with `twizzler' construction, which applies a screw-motion to some base curve. We show that, excluding cylinders,…

Given a discrete subgroup of the isometries of n-dimensional hyperbolic space there is always a region kept precisely invariant under the stabilizer of a parabolic fixed point, called the Margulis region. While in dimensions 2 and 3 this region is a horoball, it has in general a more complicated shape due to the existe…

Study of motion control systems on Lie groups with specific geometric constraints.

Positive factorization for pseudoperiodic homeomorphisms on surfaces.

Our goal is to generalize the Choe-Hoppe helicoid and Clifford cones in Euclidean space. By sweeping out $L$ indpendent Clifford cones in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2N+2}$ via the multi-screw motion, we construct minimal submanifolds in ${\mathbb{R}}^{L(2N+2)+1}$. Also, we sweep out the $L$-rays Clifford cone (introduced in Sectio…

In this paper, we are concerned with hypersurfaces in $H^n\times R$ with constant r-mean curvature, to be called $H_r$-hypersurfaces. We construct examples of complete $H_r$-hypersurfaces which are invariant by parabolic screw motion or by rotation. We prove that there is a unique rotational strictly convex entire $H_r…

Study of knotted defects in smectic liquid crystals using topological knot theory.

Weaved helices form mechanically stable 3D structures.

New energy model avoids self-intersections in curve optimization.

We give an infinite dimensional generalized Weierstrass representation for spacelike constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in Minkowski 3-space $\real^{2,1}$. The formulation is analogous to that given by Dorfmeister, Pedit and Wu for CMC surfaces in Euclidean space, replacing the group $SU_2$ with $SU_{1,1}$. The non…

We study the geometry of the Margulis region associated with an irrational screw translation $g$ acting on the 4-dimensional real hyperbolic space. This is an invariant domain with the parabolic fixed point of $g$ on its boundary which plays the role of an invariant horoball for a translation in dimensions $\leq 3$. Th…

Geometric characterization of sub-Riemannian geodesics on frame bundles.

In this note we shall show that the sectional curvature of a harmonic manifold is bounded on both sides. In fact we shall give a pinching constant for all harmonic manifolds. We shall use the imbedding theorem for harmonic manifolds proved by Z.I.Szabo and the description of screw lines in hilbert spaces to prove the r…

The paper introduces a new concept of frame vorticity and uses it to find optimal sections in specific geometric settings.

We explore the connection between Hilbertian metrics and positive definite kernels on the real line. In particular, we look at a well-known characterization of translation invariant Hilbertian metrics on the real line by von Neumann and Schoenberg (1941). Using this result we are able to give an alternate proof of Boch…

The goal of this article is to show that five explicitly given transformations, a rotation, two screw Heisenberg rotations, a vertical translation and an involution generate the Euclidean Picard modular groups with coefficient in the Euclidean ring of integers of a quadratic imaginary number field. We also obtain the r…

The goal of this paper is twofold. First we prove a rigidity estimate, which generalises the theorem on geometric rigidity of Friesecke, James and Müller to 1-forms with non-vanishing exterior derivative. Second we use this estimate to prove a kind of spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry for some models of cryst…

The Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator are larger on an annulus than on any other surface of revolution in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the same boundary. This is established by defining a sequence of shrinking cylinders about the axis of symmetry and proving that flattening a surface outside of each cylinde…

Study helicoidal surfaces with singular points using frontals.

Long-term human motion can be represented as a series of motion modes---motion sequences that capture short-term temporal dynamics---with transitions between them. We leverage this structure and present a novel Motion Transformation Variational Auto-Encoders (MT-VAE) for learning motion sequence generation. Our model j…

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

Let $Γ$ be a 3-dimensional Kleinian punctured torus group with ccidental parabolic transformations. The deformation space of $Γ$ in the group of Möbius transformations on the 2-sphere is well-known as the Maskit slice of punctured torus groups. In this paper, we study deformations $Γ'$ of $Γ$ in the group of Möbius tra…

Study motion planning for points avoiding obstacles in a plane.

Programmatic Motion Concepts learn human actions from paired videos.

Unified framework for human motion generation on Riemannian manifolds.

Study on determinants of unitary Brownian motion and their asymptotic laws.

Data-driven modelling and synthesis of motion is an active research area with applications that include animation, games, and social robotics. This paper introduces a new class of probabilistic, generative, and controllable motion-data models based on normalising flows. Models of this kind can describe highly complex d…

Study refracted skew Brownian motion, find densities and asymptotics.

Neural network predicts vessel motions with high accuracy.

Study fractal dimension for motion without crossing a subset.

Let $E$ be a closed set in the Riemann sphere $\widehat{\mathbb{C}}$. We consider a holomorphic motion $φ$ of $E$ over a complex manifold $M$, that is, a holomorphic family of injections on $E$ parametrized by $M$. It is known that if $M$ is the unit disk $Δ$ in the complex plane, then any holomorphic motion of $E$ ove…

New approach for obstacle avoidance in robotics using learned representations.

Paper defines multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion under volatility uncertainty.