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Handle attaching in symplectic homology and the Chord Conjecture

Kai Cieliebak (2002)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

Arnold conjectured that every Legendrian knot in the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere possesses a haracteristic chord with respect to any contact form. I confirm this conjecture if the know has Thurston-Bennequin invariant 1 . More generally, existence of chords is proved for a standard Legendrian unknot on the boundary of a subcritical Stein manifold of any dimension. There is also a multiplicity result which implies in some situations existence of infinitely many chords. The proof relies...

Hardness of embedding simplicial complexes in d

Jiří Matoušek, Martin Tancer, Uli Wagner (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

Let 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 k d be the following algorithmic problem: Given a finite simplicial complex K of dimension at most k , does there exist a (piecewise linear) embedding of K into d ? Known results easily imply polynomiality of 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 k 2 ( k = 1 , 2 ; the case k = 1 , d = 2 is graph planarity) and of 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 k 2 k for all k 3 . We show that the celebrated result of Novikov on the algorithmic unsolvability of recognizing the 5-sphere implies that 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 d d and 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 ( d - 1 ) d are undecidable for each d 5 . Our main result is NP-hardness of 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 2 4 and, more generally, of 𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝙳 k d for all k , d with...

Harmonic and Minimal Unit Vector Fields on the Symmetric Spaces G 2 and G 2 / S O ( 4 )

László Verhóczki (2012)

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Rerum Naturalium. Mathematica

The exceptional compact symmetric spaces G 2 and G 2 / S O ( 4 ) admit cohomogeneity one isometric actions with two totally geodesic singular orbits. These singular orbits are not reflective submanifolds of the ambient spaces. We prove that the radial unit vector fields associated to these isometric actions are harmonic and minimal.

Harmonic morphisms and circle actions on 3- and 4-manifolds

Paul Baird (1990)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

Harmonic morphisms are considered as a natural generalization of the analytic functions of Riemann surface theory. It is shown that any closed analytic 3-manifold supporting a non-constant harmonic morphism into a Riemann surface must be a Seifert fibre space. Harmonic morphisms ϕ : M N from a closed 4-manifold to a 3-manifold are studied. These determine a locally smooth circle action on M with possible fixed points. This restricts the topology of M . In all cases, a harmonic morphism ϕ : M N from a closed...

h-cobordism and s-cobordism Theorems: Transfer over Semialgebraic and Nash Categories, Uniform bound and Effectiveness

Mady Demdah Kartoue (2011)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

The h-cobordism theorem is a noted theorem in differential and PL topology. A generalization of the h-cobordism theorem for possibly non simply connected manifolds is the so called s-cobordism theorem. In this paper, we prove semialgebraic and Nash versions of these theorems. That is, starting with semialgebraic or Nash cobordism data, we get a semialgebraic homeomorphism (respectively a Nash diffeomorphism). The main tools used are semialgebraic triangulation and Nash approximation.One aspect of...

Heegaard and regular genus of 3-manifolds with boundary.

P. Cristofori, C. Gagliardi, L. Grasselli (1995)

Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

By means of branched coverings techniques, we prove that the Heegaard genus and the regular genus of an orientable 3-manifold with boundary coincide.

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