arXiv research

Study of zero-divisors in sedenions via determinant factorization.

The paper disproves Kaplansky's unit conjecture for certain groups.

Sedenions have geometric submanifolds with special properties.

Study properties of group rings of three-manifold groups.

The paper develops further the theory of quandle rings which was introduced by the authors in a recent work. Orderability of quandles is defined and many interesting examples of orderable quandles are given. It is proved that quandle rings of left or right orderable quandles which are semi-latin have no zero-divisors. …

Develops mixed quantization for graph vector bundles.

Study shows normal distribution in divisor counts of random sections on complex manifolds.

The paper studies Fubini-Study metrics and zero distributions on CR manifolds.

Kricker constructed a knot invariant Z^{rat} valued in a space of Feynman diagrams with beads. When composed with the so called "hair" map H, it gives the Kontsevich integral of the knot. We introduce a new grading on diagrams with beads and use it to show that a non trivial element constructed from Vogel's zero diviso…

We show that the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of any oriented surface F (possibly with marked points in its boundary) has no zero divisors and that its center is generated by knots parallel to the unmarked components of the boundary of F. Furthermore, we show that skein algebras are Noetherian and Ore. Our proofs rel…

Linear statistics of random zero sets are integrals of smooth differential forms over the zero set and as such are smooth analogues of the volume of the random zero set inside a fixed domain. We derive an asymptotic expansion for the variance of linear statistics of the zero divisors of random holomorphic sections of p…

We present a new test for studying asphericity and diagrammatic reducibility of group presentations. Our test can be applied to prove diagrammatic reducibility in cases where the classical weight test fails. We use this criterion to generalize results of J. Howie and S.M. Gersten on asphericity of LOTs and of Adian pre…

The study proves a central limit theorem for Gaussian holomorphic sections on Kähler manifolds.

Let $G$ be a non-trivial torsion free group and $s(t)=g_{1}t^{ε_{1}}g_{2}t^{ε_{2}} \cdots g_{n}t^{ε_{n}}=1 \; (g_{i} \in G,\ ε_i=\pm 1)$ be an equation over $G$ containing no blocks of the form $t^{-1}g_{i}t^{-1}, \; g_{i} \in G$. In this paper we show that $s(t)=1$ has a solution over $G$ provided a single relation on…

Based on hyperbolic geometric considerations, Roger and Yang introduced an extension of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra that includes arcs. In particular, their skein algebra is a deformation quantization of a certain commutative curve algebra, and there is a Poisson algebra homomorphism between the curve algebra an…

The graded algebra Lambda defined by Pierre Vogel is of general interest in the theory of finite-type invariants of knots and of 3-manifolds because it acts on the corresponding spaces of connected graphs subject to relations called IHX and AS. We examine a subalgebra Lambda_0 that is generated by certain elements call…

Unified framework for complex, split-complex, and dual numbers.

Study of random sections on complex spaces converging to equilibrium metrics.

Let $X$ be a compact connected Riemann surface and $D$ an effective divisor on $X$. Let ${\mathcal N}_H(r,d)$ denote the moduli space of $D$-twisted stable Higgs bundles (a special class of Hitchin pairs) on $X$ of rank $r$ and degree $d$. It is known that ${\mathcal N}_H(r,d)$ has a natural holomorphic Poisson structu…

We describe and study the loci equidistant from finitely many points in the so-called complex hyperbolic geometry, i.e., in the geometry of a holomorphic $2$-ball $\Bbb B$. In particular, we show that the bisectors (= the loci equidistant from $2$ points) containing the (smooth real algebraic) curve equidistant from gi…

Let $X$ be a compact normal complex space of dimension $n$, and $L$ be a holomorphic line bundle on $X$. Suppose $Σ=(Σ_1,\ldots,Σ_\ell)$ is an $\ell$-tuple of distinct irreducible proper analytic subsets of $X$, $τ=(τ_1,\ldots,τ_\ell)$ is an $\ell$-tuple of positive real numbers, and consider the space $H^0_0 (X, L^p)$…

Let G be a torsion free discrete group and let \bar{Q} denote the field of algebraic numbers in C. We prove that \bar{Q}[G] fulfills the Atiyah conjecture if G lies in a certain class of groups D, which contains in particular all groups which are residually torsion free elementary amenable or which are residually free.…

We extend topological recursion to twisted Higgs bundles with singularities.