arXiv research

The study connects curvature to the elastic energy of non-Euclidean thin bodies.

Non-Euclidean, or incompatible elasticity is an elastic theory for pre-stressed materials, which is based on a modeling of the elastic body as a Riemannian manifold. In this paper we derive a dimensionally-reduced model of the so-called membrane limit of a thin incompatible body. By generalizing classical dimension red…

We give the rectangle condition for strong irreducibility of Heegaard splittings of $3$-manifolds with non-empty boundary. We apply this to a generalized Heegaard splitting of a $2$-fold covering of $S^3$ branched along a link. The condition implies that any thin meridional level surface in the link complement is incom…

Proves existence and uniqueness of rotating fluid bodies in GR to second order.

The paper examines rigidity of thin domains under specific boundary conditions.

If a tangle, K, in the 3-ball has no planar, meridional, essential surfaces in its exterior then thin position for K has no thin levels.

We define a new notion of thin position for a graph in a 3-manifold which combines the ideas of thin position for manifolds first originated by Scharlemann and Thompson with the idea of thin position for knots first originated by Gabai. This thin position has the property that connect summing annuli and pairs-of-pants …

New proof shows most thin knots satisfy Cabling Conjecture.

We produce embeddings of knots in thin position that admit compressible thin levels. We also find the bridge number of tangle sums where each tangle is high distance.

The paper finds many thin subgroups isomorphic to Gromov-Piatetski-Shapiro lattices.

We describe a natural decomposition of a normal complex surface singularity $(X,0)$ into its "thick" and "thin" parts. The former is essentially metrically conical, while the latter shrinks rapidly in thickness as it approaches the origin. The thin part is empty if and only if the singularity is metrically conical; the…

Let k be a knot in S3. In [8], H.N. Howards and J. Schultens introduced a method to construct a manifold decomposition of double branched cover of (S3, k) from a thin position of k. In this article, we will prove that if a thin position of k induces a thin decomposition of double branched cover of (S3,k) by Howards and…

Abby Thompson proved that if a link $K$ is in thin position but not in bridge position then the knot complement contains an essential meridional planar surface, and she asked whether some thin level surface must be essential. This note is to give a positive answer to this question, showing that the if a link is in thin…

New method characterizes thin links via Conway spheres and tangle decompositions.

Regularized Stein thinning improves MCMC output approximations.

The paper studies eigenvalues in negatively curved spaces, showing their relationship to the thick-thin decomposition.

Thin groups found in specific lattices.

KSD Thinning uses KSD to thin MCMC samples efficiently.

Data thinning splits observations into independent parts for convolution-closed distributions.

Kernel thinning compresses distributions more effectively than i.i.d. sampling or standard thinning.

Study shows $(p,q)$-cables of non-trivial knots are not thin.

Generalizes data thinning for various distributions.

New method reduces summary points for datasets while maintaining quality.

Proposes efficient training method for deep thin networks.

Wu has shown that if a link or a knot $L$ in $S^3$ in thin position has thin spheres, then the thin sphere of lowest width is an essential surface in the link complement. In this paper we show that if we further assume that $L \subset S^3$ is prime, then the thin sphere of lowest width also does not have any vertical c…

Arithmetic spaces' thin parts are negligible, impacting Betti numbers.

We give a method for searching for thin positions of a given link.

New thin subgroups found in special linear groups via bending techniques.

We show that every thin position for a connected sum of small knots is obtained in an obvious way: place each summand in thin position so that no two summands intersect the same level surface, then connect the lowest minimum of each summand to the highest maximum of the adjacent summand below.

New infinite family of knots without special surgeries found.

Let L be a link in the 3-sphere that is in thin position but not in bridge position and let P be a thin level sphere. We generalize a result of Wu by giving a bound on the number of disjoint irreducible compressing disks that P can have, including identifying thin spheres with unique compressing disks. We also give con…

Compactifies group representations into thin triangle spaces.

Survey of mathematical developments in gauge theory using thin homotopy.

In this paper, we give an algorithm to build all compact orientable atoroidal Haken 3-manifolds with tori boundary or closed orientable Haken 3-manifolds, so that in both cases, there are embedded closed orientable separating incompressible surfaces which are not tori. Next, such incompressible surfaces are related to …

Study thin hyperbolic reflection groups and their properties.

Defines thin position for 4-manifolds and trisections, finding key relations and diagrams.

We introduce a method for creating a special type of tree, called a tree position, from a weighted graph. Leaves of the tree correspond to vertices of the original graph, and the tree edges contain information which can be used to partition these vertices. By repeatedly applying reducing operations to the tree position…

Signature uniquely identifies piecewise linear surfaces up to thin homotopy.

We generalize the definition of thin position of Scharlemann and Thompson for compact orientable 3-manifolds with torus boundary components and introduce $α$-sloped generalized Heegaard splittings. We examine its relationship to generalized Heegaard splittings of manifolds resulting from Dehn filling. We compare alpha-…

We show that, in the Teichmüller metric, "thin-framed triangles are thin"---that is, under suitable hypotheses, the variation of geodesics obeys a hyperbolic-like inequality. This theorem has applications to the study of random walks on Teichmüller space. In particular, an application is worked out for the action of th…

We unify the notions of thin position for knots and for 3-manifolds and survey recent work concerning these notions.

Defines combinatorial minimal surfaces in pseudomanifolds.

In this paper we find infinitely many lattices in $SL(4,\mathbb{R})$ each of which contains thin subgroups commensurable with the figure-eight knot group.

Proves Pólya's conjecture for thin products and Riemannian manifolds.

New framework reveals limits of flexible, periodic thin surfaces.

Symmetries in shell theory lead to multiple deformation possibilities.

Two subset germs of Euclidean spaces are called blow-spherically equivalent, if their spherical modifications are homeomorphic and the homeomorphism induces homeomorphic tangent links. Blow-spherical equivalence is stronger than the topological equivalence but weaker than the Lipschitz equivalence. We introduce the thi…

The study finds non-uniform lattices with thin Hitchin representations in specific Lie groups.