A Compactification of the Space of Expanding Maps on the Circle

We show the space of expanding Blaschke products on S¹ is compactified by a sphere of invariant measures, reminiscent of the sphere of geodesic currents for a hyperbolic surface. More generally, we develop a dynamical compactification for the Teichmüller space of all measure preserving topological covering maps of S¹. Research supported in part by the NSF.     

Homogeneous surfaces in Lie sphere geometry

In this paper, we study surfaces of S ³ in the context of Lie sphere geometry. We construct invariants with respect to Lie sphere transformations on the surfaces, which determine the surfaces up to a Lie sphere transformation. Finally we classify completely the homogeneous surfaces in S ³ with respect to the Lie sphere transformation group of S ³.     

On the (−1)-curve conjecture of friedman and morgan

Summary We will prove that every differentiably embedded sphere with self-intersection –1 in a simply connected algebraic surface withp _g >0 is homologous to an algebraic class. If the surface has a minimal model with Picard number 1 or |K _min| contains a smooth curve, and eitherp _g orK _min ² is even, then every such sphere is homologous to a (–1)-curve, as conjectured by Friedman and Morgan.Oblatum 15-IV-1993Supported by Nederlandse organisatie voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek NWO, stipend 04-63.     

No optimal 1‐planar graph triangulates any nonorientable closed surface

Suzuki [Discrete Math. 310 (2010), 6–11] proved that for any orientable closed surface F² other than the sphere, there exists an optimal 1‐planar graph which can be embedded on F² as a triangulation. However, for nonorientable closed surfaces, the existence of such graphs is unknown. In this article, we prove that no optimal 1‐planar graph triangulates a nonorientable closed surface.     

On cyclic <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-gonal Riemann surfaces with several <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-gonal morphisms

Let p be a prime number, p > 2. A closed Riemann surface which can be realized as a p-sheeted covering of the Riemann sphere is called p-gonal, and such a covering is called a p-gonal morphism. If the p-gonal morphism is a cyclic regular covering, the Riemann surface is called a cyclic p-gonal Riemann surface. Accola showed that if the genus is greater than (p − 1)² the p-gonal morphism is unique. Using the characterization of p-gonality by means of Fuchsian groups we show that there exists a uniparametric family of cyclic p-gonal Riemann surfaces of genus (p − 1)² which admit two p-gonal morphisms. In this work we show that these uniparametric families are connected spaces and that each of them is the Riemann sphere without three points. We study the Hurwitz space of pairs (X, f), where X is a Riemann surface in one of the above families and f is a p-gonal morphism, and we obtain that each of these Hurwitz spaces is a Riemann sphere without four points.     

Embedding of trees in euclidean spaces

It is proved that for any treeT the vertices ofT can be placed on the surface of a sphere inR ³ in such a way that adjacent vertices have distance 1 and nonadjacent vertices have distances less than 1.     

Approach to equilibrium of a rotating sphere in a Stokes flow

We study the unsteady rotary motion of a sphere immersed in a Stokes fluid. The equation of motion for the sphere leads to an integro-differential equation, and we are interested in the asymptotic behavior in time of the solution. Preparing initially the system (sphere + fluid) as a stationary state, we prove that the angular velocity of the sphere slows down with a law t ^−3/2 if no other forces than the one exerted by the fluid act on the sphere, while if the sphere is subject also to an elastic torque the asymptotic behavior of the angular position of the sphere is t ^−γ , with γ = 5/2 if the initial angular velocity is zero, γ = 3/2 otherwise. This behavior is due to the memory effect of the surrounding fluid. We discuss briefly other initial preparations of the system.     

Polynomial frames on the sphere

We introduce a class of polynomial frames suitable for analyzing data on the surface of the unit sphere of a Euclidean space. Our frames consist of polynomials, but are well localized, and are stable with respect to all the L ^p norms. The frames belonging to higher and higher scale wavelet spaces have more and more vanishing moments.     

On the geometry of spheres in L-spaces

It is shown that any two points on the surface of the unit ball ofL ¹(μ), where the measureμ is non-atomic, may be joined in the surface by a curve whose length is equal to the straight-line distance between its endpoints. This property is contrasted with the metric properties of the unit sphere in other L-spaces. This work was supported in part by NSF grant GP-19126.     

Sequences of minimal surfaces in S2n+1

For a minimal surface immersed into an odd-dimensional unit sphere S ²ⁿ⁺¹ with the first (n−2) higher-order ellipses of curvature being a circle, we construct a sequence of such surfaces and investigate if some two minimal surfaces in such a sequence can be congruent by an orientation-reversing isometry.     

A surface which contains planar geodesics

It is proved that a complete surface in E ³ is a sphere or a plane if it contains at least four geodesics through each point which are plane curves.     

Proportional concentration phenomena on the sphere

In this paper we establish concentration phenomena for subspaces with arbitrary dimension. Namely, we display conditions under which the Haar measure on the sphere concentrates on a neighborhood of the intersection of the sphere with a subspace ofR ⁿ of a given dimension. We display applications to a problem of projections of points on the sphere, and to the duality of entropy numbers conjecture. Research was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation.     

Constructive approximations of spherical functions

Approximation of functions on the sphere arises in almost all applications modeling data collected on the surface of the earth and for reconstruction of various processes in spherical coordinates. Constructive approximation of high dimensional spherical functions are useful for approximation of processes of several variables on a compact subset of a Euclidean space by mapping the data onto the unit sphere of a space having one higher dimension, avoiding the boundary effect of the set. Interpolation operators on the circle and periodic domains (based on a class of basis functions and data values) are essential for many high performance simulations. These operators are represented by analytical summation formulas that can be computed very efficiently using the fast Fourier transform. This work is concerned with construction of a similar class of interpolation and quasi-interpolation operators on the unit sphere in ℝ^q , for q = 3, 4, 5, · · ·, using a new class of basis functions. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On a characteristic property of minimal-ruled surfaces

LetS be a surface of classC ⁴ in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper it is shown that any two of the following three conditions imply the third one: (a)S is a minimal surface, (b) Two families of Laguerre lines ofS form a conjugate net, (c)S is a non-developable ruled surface. Furthermore, it is proved that any surface (other than a sphere, a cylinder of revolution and a plane) of constant mean curvature on which the two families of Laguerre lines form a conjugate net is a minimal-helicoid.     

Cone Spline Surfaces and Spatial Arc Splines – a Sphere Geometric Approach

Basic sphere geometric principles are used to analyze approximation schemes of developable surfaces with cone spline surfaces, i.e., G ¹-surfaces composed of segments of right circular cones. These approximation schemes are geometrically equivalent to the approximation of spatial curves with G ¹-arc splines, where the arcs are circles in an isotropic metric. Methods for isotropic biarcs and isotropic osculating arc splines are presented that are similar to their Euclidean counterparts. Sphere geometric methods simplify the proof that two sufficiently close osculating cones of a developable surface can be smoothly joined by a right circular cone segment. This theorem is fundamental for the construction of osculating cone spline surfaces. Finally, the analogous theorem for Euclidean osculating circular arc splines is given.     

Surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector

A surfaceM in a Riemannian manifold is said to have parallel normalized mean curvature vector if the mean curvature vector is nonzero and the unit vector in the direction of the mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle. In this paper, it is proved that every analytic surface in a euclideanm-spaceE ^m with parallel normalized mean curvature vector must either lies in aE ⁴ or lies in a hypersphere ofE ^m as a minimal surface. Moreover, it is proved that if a Riemann sphere inE ^m has parallel normalized mean curvature vector, then it lies either in aE ³ or in a hypersphere ofE ^m as a minimal surfaces. Applications to the classification of surfaces with constant Gauss curvature and with parallel normalized mean curvature vector are also given.     

An estimate of the deformation of a closed convex surface with a change in its curvature

We consider closed convex surfaces ℱ of the space R³ containing a fixed point 0 in the interior. A central projection from 0 enables us to transfer the curvature ω(u) of the surface ℱ, regarded as a function of a set uɛℱ, onto a sphere with center 0. A. D. Aleksandrov established the fact that the surface ℱ is determined (moreover, uniquely) to·within a homothetic transformation with center 0 by prescribing the curvature transferred in this way onto the sphere. In this paper we give an estimate of the variation of the distances τ _F (B) of points of the surface from 0 as a function of the variation of the curvature transferred onto the sphere. The derivation of this estimate relies substantially on nondegeneracy of the surface ℱ; as a measure of nondegeneracy we take the ratio R/ζ, of the radii ℱ of balls with center ℱ, circumscribed and inscribed, respectively, about 0. Also, in this paper, we introduce and study those characteristics ℒ _F and τ _F of the curvature of the surface ℱ, which make it possible to estimate R/ζ from above and, by the same token, to obtain an estimate of how τ _F (B) varies in terms only of the curvature of the surface and its variation. An analytical treatment shows that basically our result yields an estimate of the maximum of the modulus of the change in the solution of a Monge—Ampere type equation on a sphere in terms of the change in its right-hand side in some integral norm, while the estimate of R/ζ, yields an a priori estimate of the modulus of the solution of this equation. Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova Akad. Nauk SSSR, Vol. 45, pp. 83–110, 1974.     

Global singularity structures of weak solutions to 4-D semilinear dispersive wave equations

In this paper, we are concerned with the global singularity structures of weak solutions to 4-D semilinear dispersive wave equations whose initial data are chosen to be discontinuous on the unit sphere. Combining Strichartz's inequality with the commutator argument techniques, we show that the weak solutions are C²−regular away from the focusing cone surface |x|=|t−1| and the outgoing cone surface |x|=t+1. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Doctoral Foundation of NEM of China.     

Intermediate christoffel-minkowski problems for figures of revolution

Necessary and sufficient conditions are described on ap function ω over the unit sphere in Euclideann-spaceE ⁿ in order for ω to be thepth order, elementary symmetric function of the prncipal radii on the boundary of a sufficiently smooth convex body of revolution inE ⁿ ; here these radii are taken as functions of the outer unit normal direction on the bounding surface;p satisfies 1≦p<n−1.     

Existence and uniqueness of complete constant mean curvature surfaces at infinity ofH 3

A set of conditions are given, each equivalent to the constancy of mean curvature of a surface in H ³.It is shown that analogs of these equivalences exist for surfaces in S _∞ ² ,the bounding ideal sphere of H ³,leading to a notion of constant mean curvature at infinity of H ³.A parametrization of all complete constant mean curvature surfaces at infinity of H ³ is given by holomorphic quadratic differentials on Ĉ,C, and D.