Inverse spherical surfaces

In this paper we describe a new way to design rational parametric surfaces defined on spherical triangles which are useful for modelling in a spherical environment. These surfaces can be seen as single-valued functions in spherical coordinates.     

Flat connections on configuration spaces and braid groups of surfaces

We construct an explicit bundle with flat connection on the configuration space of n points on a complex curve. This enables one to recover the ‘1-formality’ isomorphism between the Lie algebra of the prounipotent completion of the pure braid group of n   points on a surface and an explicitly presented Lie algebra, and to extend it to a morphism from the full braid group of the surface to the semidirect product of the associated group with the symmetric group _Sn$S_n$.     

Topologically minimal surfaces versus self-amalgamated Heegaard surfaces

Let V ∪SW be a Heegaard splitting of M,such that αM = α-W = F1 ∪ F2 and g(S) = 2g(F1)= 2g(F2). Let V * ∪S*W * be the self-amalgamation of V ∪SW. We show if d(S) 3 then S* is not a topologically minimal surface.     

基于角点处扭矢构造双三次Coons曲面的一种优化方法

本文针对矩形网格角点处的扭矢采用优化方法构造双三次Coons曲面,提出一种新的优化准则来确定角点处的扭矢.首先,通过变分原理,考虑曲面导矢的极小化问题转化的Euler-Lagrange偏微分方程,将该方程应用于每一个Coons块的角点上,引入一个新的极小化问题,其解是Euler-Lagrange偏微分方程的近似最优解.然后,建立一个具有块三对角系数矩阵的线性方程组来求解新的极小化问题.该系数矩阵可以表示为两个相同的形式特殊的矩阵的Kronnecker积,进而可以证明其非奇异性.最后,数值实验验证本文方法的稳定性和有效性.     

Time dependent random fields on spherical non-homogeneous surfaces

We introduce a class of isotropic time dependent random fields on the non-homogeneous sphere which is represented by a time-changed spherical Brownian motion of order ν∈(0,1]$\nu \in (0,1]$. We can capture some anisotropies in Cosmology with this model. This process is a time-changed rotational diffusion (TRD) or the stochastic solution to the equation involving the spherical Laplace operator and a time-fractional derivative of order ν$\nu$. TRD is a diffusion on the non-homogeneous sphere and therefore, the spherical coordinates given by TRD represent the coordinates of a non-homogeneous sphere by means of which an isotropic random field is indexed. The time dependent random fields we present in this work are therefore realized through composition and can be viewed as isotropic random field on randomly varying sphere.     

Evolutes of dual spherical curves for ruled surfaces

E. Study found that there is a one‐to‐one correspondence between the oriented lines in Euclidean three space and the dual points of the dual unit sphere in dual three space, and it has wide applications in Engineering. In this paper, we investigate a ruled surface as a curve on the dual unit sphere by using E. Study's theory. Then we define the notion of evolutes of dual spherical curves for ruled surfaces and establish the relationships between singularities of these subjects and geometric invariants of dual spherical curves. Finally, we give an example to illustrate our findings. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Chow group of the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces

Naruki gave an explicit construction of the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces, starting from a toric variety and proceeding with blow-ups and contractions. Using his result, we compute the Chow groups and the Chern classes of this moduli space. As an application we relate a recent result of Freitag on the Hilbert polynomial of a certain ring of modular forms to the Riemann–Roch theorem for the moduli space. Dedicated to the memory of our friend Fabio BardelliMathematics Subject Classification (2000) 14J15     

Vector bundles on Hirzebruch surfaces whose twists by a non-ample line bundle have natural cohomology

Here we study vector bundles E on the Hirzebruch surface F _e such that their twists by a spanned, but not ample, line bundle M = _Fe (h + ef) have natural cohomology, i.e. h ⁰(F _e , E(tM)) > 0 implies h ¹(F _e , E(tM)) = 0.      

Healing times for circular wounds on plane and spherical bone surfaces

A mathematical model is developed for the rate of healing of a circular wound in a spherical “skull”. The motivation for this model is based on experimental studies of the “critical size defect” (CSD) in animal models; this has been defined as the smallest intraosseous wound that does not heal by bone formation during the lifetime of the animal [1]. For practical purposes, this timescale can usually be taken as one year. In [2], the definition was further extended to a defect which has less than ten percent bony regeneration during the lifetime of the animal. CSDs can “heal” by fibrous connective tissue formation, but since this is not bone, it does not have the properties (strength, etc.) that a completely healed defect would. Earlier models of bone wound healing [3,4] have focused on the existence (or not) of a CSD based on a steady-state analysis, so the time development of the wound was not addressed. In this paper, the time development of a circular cylindrical wound is discussed from a general point of view. An integro-differential equation is derived for the radial contraction rate of the wound in terms of the wound radius and parameters related to the postulated healing mechanisms. This equation includes the effect of the curvature of the (spherical) skull, since it is clear from the experimental evidence that the size of the CSD increases monotonically with the size of the calvaria. Certain special cases for a planar wound are highlighted to illustrate the qualitative features of the model, in particular, the dependence of the wound healing time on the initial wound size and the thickness of the healing rim.     

Involution words II: braid relations and atomic structures

Involution words are variations of reduced words for twisted involutions in Coxeter groups. They arise naturally in the study of the Bruhat order, of certain Iwahori–Hecke algebra modules, and of orbit closures in flag varieties. Specifically, to any twisted involutions x, y in a Coxeter group W with automorphism \(*\), we associate a set of involution words \(\hat{\mathcal {R}}_*(x,y)\). This set is the disjoint union of the reduced words of a set of group elements \(\mathcal {A}_*(x,y)\), which we call the atoms of y relative to x. The atoms, in turn, are contained in a larger set \(\mathcal {B}_*(x,y) \subset W\) with a similar definition, whose elements are referred to as Hecke atoms. Our main results concern some interesting properties of the sets \(\hat{\mathcal {R}}_*(x,y)\) and \(\mathcal {A}_*(x,y) \subset \mathcal {B}_*(x,y)\). For finite Coxeter groups, we prove that \(\mathcal {A}_*(1,y)\) consists of exactly the minimal-length elements \(w \in W\) such that \(w^* y \le w\) in Bruhat order, and we conjecture a more general property for arbitrary Coxeter groups. In type A, we describe a simple set of conditions characterizing the sets \(\mathcal {A}_*(x,y)\) for all involutions \(x,y \in S_n\), giving a common generalization of three recent theorems of Can et al. We show that the atoms of a fixed involution in the symmetric group (relative to \(x=1\)) naturally form a graded poset, while the Hecke atoms surprisingly form an equivalence class under the “Chinese relation” studied by Cassaigne et al. These facts allow us to recover a recent theorem of Hu and Zhang describing a set of “braid relations” spanning the involution words of any self-inverse permutation. We prove a generalization of this result giving an analogue of Matsumoto’s theorem for involution words in arbitrary Coxeter groups.     

On unique determination of convex surfaces in a pseudoriemannian spherical space. 1

We prove a theorem on unique determination by the metric of general closed convex surfaces that do not deviate too much from a plane in a spherical pseudoriemannian space.Translated from Ukrainskií Geometricheskií Sbornik, Issue 29, 1986, pp. 113–118.     

Normal curvature and the topological structure of multidimensional surfaces in a spherical space

Translated from Ukrainskii Geometricheskii Sbornik, No. 31, pp. 14–19, 1988.