Mechanically interprets Gaussian curvature using spinning disks and curved surfaces.
problem Understanding Gaussian curvature through mechanical means.
method Considering the motion of a spinning disk constrained to a curved surface, relating gyroscopic force to magnetic force and Gaussian curvature.
result The gyroscopic force on a spinning disk is equal to the magnetic force on a point charge moving in a magnetic field normal to the surface, with magnitude equal to the Gaussian curvature.
Using spinning we analyze in a geometric way Haefliger's smoothly knotted (4k-1)-spheres in the 6k-sphere. Consider the 2-torus standardly embedded in the 3-sphere, which is further standardly embedded in the 6-sphere. At each point of the 2-torus we have the normal disk pair: a 4-dimensional disk and a 1-dimensional p…
Study uses knot Floer homology to distinguish slice disks.
problem Classifying slice disks of knots up to isotopy and diffeomorphism.
method Invariants in knot Floer homology to compute and distinguish slice disks.
result Invariant can distinguish non-isotopic slice disks with diffeomorphic complements.
We study the relationship between fibered ribbon 1-knots and fibered ribbon 2-knots by studying fibered slice disks with handlebody fibers. We give a characterization of fibered homotopy-ribbon disks and give analogues of the Stallings twist for fibered disks and 2-knots. As an application, we produce infinite families…
Defines a new operation in string topology using pseudo-holomorphic disks.
problem Defines a new operation in string topology.
method Uses virtual fundamental chains of moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic disks.
result Defines a Maurer-Cartan element of a Lie bracket operation in string topology.
We study the effects of having multiple Spin structures on the partition function of the spacetime fields in M-theory. This leads to a potential anomaly which appears in the eta-invariants upon variation of the Spin structure. The main source of such spaces are manifolds with nontrivial fundamental group, which are als…
New theory maps spin structures on surfaces, generating key elements.
problem Mapping spin structures on surfaces with finite type.
method Introducing P(SL(2,Z)) and its action on Tess^+.
result Three combinatorial elements generate P(SL(2,Z)).
The classical knot groups are the fundamental groups of the complements of smooth or piecewise-linear (PL) locally-flat knots. For PL knots that are not locally-flat, there is a pair of interesting groups to study: the fundamental group of the knot complement and that of the complement of the ``boundary knot'' that occ…
The relativistic quantum mechanic approach is used to develop a stock market dynamics. The relativistic is conceptional here as the meaning of big external volatility or volatility shock on a financial market. We used a differential geometry approach with the parallel transport of the prices to obtain a direct shift of…
New physics models generalize existing brane brick models.
problem Physics models involving special Lagrangian submanifolds with boundary.
method Relates to geometry of coassociative submanifolds and Spin(7) metrics. result Proposes new brane models in type IIA string theory.
Disk surgery on primitive disks of genus-3 Heegaard splittings of 3-sphere yields no primitive disks.
problem Characterizing primitive disks in genus-3 Heegaard splittings of 3-sphere.
method Analyzing the effect of disk surgery on primitive disks in genus-3 Heegaard splittings of 3-sphere.
result Primitive disks in genus-3 Heegaard splittings of 3-sphere are not weakly closed under disk surgery.
Slice and ribbon disks with identical exteriors found.
problem Identifying slice and ribbon disks with the same exterior.
method Constructed an infinite family of slice disks proving they are also ribbon disks.
result Found an infinite family of slice and ribbon disks with identical exteriors.
Example shows disk surgeries can alter weak reducibility property.
problem Weak reducibility of compressing disks after surgery.
method Example of weak reducing disks and their surgeries.
result Weak reducibility property is not preserved by disk surgery.
Note on connectedness of primitive disk complex.
problem Whether primitive disk complex is connected for genus > 3 Heegaard splittings.
method Defined and quotiented primitive disk complex to prove connectedness.
result Homotopy primitive disk complex is connected.
New knots bound multiple non-isotopic ribbon disks.
problem Finding knots that bound multiple non-isotopic ribbon disks.
method Classification of fibered, homotopy-ribbon disks for generalized square knots.
result Infinitely many knots bound infinitely many pairwise non-isotopic ribbon disks.
We study cobordisms and cobordisms rel boundary of PL locally-flat disk knots $D^{n-2}\into D^n$. Cobordisms of disk knots that do not fix the boundary sphere knots are easily classified by the cobordism properties of these boundaries, and any two even-dimensional disk knots with isotopic boundary knots are cobordant r…
Khovanov homology fails to differentiate certain slice disks.
problem Differentiating roll-spun slice disks from trivial ones.
method Using Khovanov homology and Morse theory.
result Khovanov homology cannot distinguish roll-spun slice disks from trivial ones.
For a genus two Heegaard splitting of a lens space, the primitive disk complex is defined to be the full subcomplex of the disk complex for one of the handlebodies of the splitting spanned by all vertices of primitive disks. In this work, we describe the complete combinatorial structure of the primitive disk complex fo…
A criterion for Whitney disks connects intersections in 3-manifold homology.
problem Existence of Whitney disks in Heegaard Floer homology.
method Use Nielsen theory to establish a criterion.
result Simple criterion for the existence of Whitney disks.
New disks found with similar outer shapes.
problem Finding similar outer shapes for Lagrangian disks.
method Modified construction of Abe and Tange.
result Arbitrarily large families of disks found.
Disk Embeddings tackle embedding DAGs with exponential growth.
problem Embedding DAGs with exponentially increasing ancestors and descendants.
method Disk Embeddings framework for quasi-metric spaces, including Hyperbolic Disk Embeddings.
result Disk Embeddings outperform existing methods in complex DAGs.
Contractibility of unknot's weak reducing disks shown.
problem Contractibility of unknot's weak reducing disks in 3-bridge position.
method Analysis of weak reducing disks in 3-bridge position.
result Complex of weak reducing disks for the unknot in 3-bridge position is contractible.
Paper proposes a method to predict disk failures using multi-layer domain adaptive learning.
problem Traditional machine learning models struggle to predict disk failures due to limited data.
method Multi-layer domain adaptive learning with source and target domains.
result The proposed method improves failure prediction accuracy on disk data with few failure samples.
Study constructs disks with curved boundaries in a 3D ball.
problem Constructing non-planar free boundary disks in a unit ball.
method Infinite family of non-planar disks with non-positive Gaussian curvature.
result Constructs disks with curved boundaries in a unit ball.
We study the space of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature on a compact manifold with boundary. These metrics extend a fixed boundary metric and take a product structure on a collar neighbourhood of the boundary. We show that the weak homotopy type of this space is preserved by certain surgeries on the bou…
New spanning 3-disks found for unlink in 4-sphere.
problem 2-component unlink in 4-sphere.
method Found infinitely many isotopy classes of Brunnian spanning 3-disks.
result Infinitely many Brunnian spanning 3-disks for 2-unlink in 4-sphere.
Even-dimensional simply connected manifolds that are rational homology spheres and double disk bundles are homeomorphic to spheres.
problem Characterizing manifolds that are both rational homology spheres and double disk bundles.
method Analyzing the structure of manifolds as unions of disk bundles and using properties of rational homology and cohomology.
result Even-dimensional simply connected manifolds that are rational homology spheres and double disk bundles are homeomorphic to spheres.
Study shows nontrivial links as cross-sections of unknotted holomorphic disks.
problem Resolving parts of Kirby's list problem about nontrivial links.
method Using unknotted holomorphic disks in the four-ball to produce cross-sections.
result Many nontrivial links arise as cross-sections of unknotted holomorphic disks.
Holomorphic isometries from Poincaré disk to complex symmetric domains found.
problem Finding holomorphic isometries from the Poincaré disk to complex symmetric domains.
method Examined holomorphic isometries from the Poincaré disk into the product of the unit disk and complex unit n-ball, then extended to irreducible bounded symmetric domains of rank at least 2.
result Provided new examples of holomorphic isometries from the Poincaré disk into irreducible bounded symmetric domains of rank at least 2.
Study of disks in complex projective space with specific fundamental groups.
problem Locally flat disks with boundary a fixed knot in (CP2)∘ with Z-fundamental group. method Topological isotopy, crossing changes, and algebraic invariants.
result Existence and classification of Z-disks in (CP2)∘. Rare Teichmüller disks converge to small limit sets.
problem Understanding limit sets of Teichmüller disks.
method Analyzing Thurston boundary of Teichmüller space.
result Teichmüller disks with smallest limit sets are exceptional.
Proves existence of non-planar minimal disks in ellipsoids.
problem Existence of non-planar minimal disks in ellipsoids.
method Optimization of Steklov eigenvalues and critical metrics.
result Existence of embedded non-planar free boundary minimal disks.
A Seifert surface F for a knot K is disk decomposable if there is a taut sutured manifold heirarchy for the complement of F, whose decomposing surfaces are all disks. It follows that F has minimal genus for the knot K, and has handlebody complement, i.e., F is free. We show that these necessary conditions for disk deco…
Disk and sphere graphs embed quasi-isometrically in R^2.
problem Embedding graphs in Euclidean space.
method Disk and sphere graphs constructed from handlebodies, quasi-isometric embeddings proven.
result Quasi-isometric embeddings of disk and sphere graphs in R^2.
Three configurations of two perpendicular disks in R^3 are examined, the first in which the disks share centers and the other two in which the disks touch at precisely one point. Volume, surface area and mean width calculations dominate the discussion. Integrated mean curvature also appears as an indirect way to comput…
We classify the resolution graphs of weighted homogeneous surface singularities which admit rational homology disk smoothings. The nonexistence of rational homology disk smoothings is shown by symplectic geometric methods, while the existence is verified via smoothings of negative weights. In particular, it is shown th…
New disks fill Legendrian knots without being smoothly isotopic.
problem Finding non-isotopic Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian knots.
method Constructing distinct Lagrangian ribbon disks with same boundary.
result Found non-isotopic Lagrangian disks with same boundary.
Using generalized Riemann maps, normal forms for almost complex domains (D, J) with singular foliations by stationary disks are defined. Such normal forms are used to construct counterexamples and to determine intrinsic conditions, under which the stationary disks are extremal disks for the Kobayashi metric or determin…
We deform a minimal disk in R4 with a branch point into symplectic minimally immersed disks with only transverse double points.
The paper explores slice disks and their properties using satellite operations and knot Floer homology.
problem Tackles the conjecture about slice disks and their positive Whitehead doubles.
method Uses techniques from knot Floer homology, Seiberg-Witten theory, and Khovanov homology.
result Provides evidence for the conjecture and constructs exotic disks.
This paper shows that every totally-geodesic isometry from the unit disk to a finite-dimensional Teichmüller space for the intrinsic Kobayashi metric is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, it is a Teichmüller disk. Additionally, a similar result is proved for a large class of disk-rigid domains, whic…
Shorter proof for wave front length in Euclidean disk
problem Wave front length in Euclidean disk
method Shorter proof and computation of oscillating corrections
result Linear asymptotics of wave front length in large time
The paper proves a disk's energy minimizer is holomorphic and calculates its Morse index.
problem Analyzing the Morse index of a non-holomorphic disk in pseudoconvex domains.
method Proof of holomorphic minimizers and Morse index calculation.
result Non-holomorphic critical disks have a Morse index of at least n-1.
New examples show non-locally-flat PL-disk bounds in rational homology balls but not in integer homology balls.
problem Characterizing knots that bound PL-disks in integer homology balls.
method Involutive Heegaard Floer homology formal properties.
result Found infinitely many manifold-knot pairs (Y, J) where J does not bound a PL-disk in an integer homology ball but does in a rational homology ball.
Disk and sphere graphs embed quasi-isometrically into Euclidean spaces.
problem Embedding disk and sphere graphs into Euclidean spaces.
method Disk and sphere graphs defined based on handlebodies and marked points.
result Quasi-isometric embeddings of disk and sphere graphs into Euclidean spaces.
Study AFPP of unions of convex digital disks in 2D.
problem Conditions for AFPP of union of convex disks in digital plane.
method Use results from [6] to analyze AFPP.
result Conditions for AFPP of union of convex disks.
Reduction of knots in bridge position results in a lower bridge number if certain conditions are met.
problem Understanding the reduction of knots in bridge position and its implications.
method Analyzing the reduction of knots along bridge disks and considering the existence of cancelling pairs.
result If a reduction of a knot yields an (n-1)-bridge position, the knot bounds a disk containing the bridge disk and intersecting the sphere in n arcs.
The study finds at least two short, simple geodesic chords on a disk with convex boundary.
problem Existence of short, simple geodesic chords on a 2-disk with convex boundary.
method Proof of existence using Riemannian geometry and bounds on lengths.
result Existence of at least two short, simple orthogonal geodesic chords on a 2-disk with convex boundary.