3‐D viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation with memory

We deal with the memory relaxation of the viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation in 3‐D, covering the well‐known hyperbolic version of the model. We study the long‐term dynamic of the system in dependence of the scaling parameter of the memory kernel ε and of the viscosity coefficient δ. In particular we construct a family of exponential attractors, which is robust as both ε and δ go to zero, provided that ε is linearly controlled by δ. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A lower bound on the order of regular graphs with given girth pair

The girth pair of a graph gives the length of a shortest odd and a shortest even cycle. The existence of regular graphs with given degree and girth pair was proved by Harary and Kovács [Regular graphs with given girth pair, J Graph Theory 7 ( 1 ), 209–218]. A (δ, g)‐cage is a smallest δ‐regular graph with girth g. For all δ ≥ 3 and odd girth g ≥ 5, Harary and Kovács conjectured the existence of a (δ,g)‐cage that contains a cycle of length g + 1. In the main theorem of this article we present a lower bound on the order of a δ‐regular graph with odd girth g ≥ 5 and even girth h ≥ g + 3. We use this bound to show that every (δ,g)‐cage with δ ≥ 3 and g ∈ {5,7} contains a cycle of length g + 1, a result that can be seen as an extension of the aforementioned conjecture by Harary and Kovács for these values of δ, g. Moreover, for every odd g ≥ 5, we prove that the even girth of all (δ,g)‐cages with δ large enough is at most (3g ? 3)/2. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 55: 153–163, 2007     

Geodesic ideal triangulations exist virtually

It is shown that every non-compact hyperbolic manifold of finite volume has a finite cover admitting a geodesic ideal triangulation. Also, every hyperbolic manifold of finite volume with non-empty, totally geodesic boundary has a finite regular cover which has a geodesic partially truncated triangulation. The proofs use an extension of a result due to Long and Niblo concerning the separability of peripheral subgroups.

     

Well‐posedness and asymptotic analysis for a Penrose–Fife type phase field system

In this paper, an asymptotic analysis of the (non‐conserved) Penrose–Fife phase field system for two vanishing time relaxation parameters ε and δ is developed, in analogy with the similar analyses for the phase field model proposed by G. Caginalp (Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 1986; 92 :205–245), which were carried out by Rossi and Stoth (Adv. Math. Sci. Appl. 2003; 13 :249–271; Quart. Appl. Math. 1995; 53 :695–700). Although formally the singular limits for ε ↓ 0 and for ε and δ ↓ 0 are, respectively, the viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation and the Cahn–Hilliard equation, it turns out that the Penrose–Fife system is indeed a bad approximation for these equations. Therefore, we consider an alternative approximating phase field system, which could be viewed as a generalization of the classical Penrose–Fife phase field system, featuring a double non‐linearity given by two maximal monotone graphs. A well‐posedness result is proved for such a system, and it is shown that the solutions converge to the unique solution of the viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation as ε ↓ 0, and of the Cahn–Hilliard equation as ε ↓ 0 and δ ↓ 0. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ideal bicombings for hyperbolic groups and applications

For every hyperbolic group and more general hyperbolic graphs, we construct an equivariant ideal bicombing: this is a homological analogue of the geodesic flow on negatively curved manifolds. We then construct a cohomological invariant which implies that several Measure Equivalence and Orbit Equivalence rigidity results established in Monod and Shalom (Orbit equivalence rigidity and bounded cohomology, preprint, to appear) hold for all non-elementary hyperbolic groups and their non-elementary subgroups. We also derive superrigidity results for actions of general irreducible lattices on a large class of hyperbolic metric spaces.     

Gromov hyperbolicity of periodic planar graphs

The study of hyperbolic graphs is an interesting topic since the hyperbolicity of a geodesic metric space is equivalent to the hyperbolicity of a graph related to it.The main result in this paper is a very simple characterization of the hyperbolicity of a large class of periodic planar graphs.     

Algorithm for generating a conformal quasi-hierarchical triangular mesh that weakly δ-approximates given polygonal lines

An algorithm is proposed for generating a conformal quasi-hierarchical triangular mesh that approximates a set of given polygonal lines to accuracy δ. The solvability of the problem is guaranteed by the possibility of shifting the polygonal lines within their δ-neighborhood. The resulting mesh consists of a small number of triangles and admits a multigrid implementation. An estimate is given for the growing number of mesh triangles with decreasing δ (of order log ₂ ² δ^?1). The algorithm is applied to a particular set of polygonal lines.     

Blaschke-Type Theorem and Separation of Disjoint Closed Geodesic Convex Sets

In this paper, we deal with analytic and geometrical properties of geodesic convex sets and geodesic paths. We show that Blaschke’s Theorem for convex sets is also true for geodesic convex sets and geodesic paths in a simple polygon. Some geometrical properties of geodesic triangles are presented. Furthermore, separation of geodesic convex sets is shown.     

0–1 laws for maps

A class of finite structures has a 0–1 law with respect to a logic if every property expressible in the logic has a probability approaching a limit of 0 or 1 as the structure size grows. To formulate 0–1 laws for maps (i.e., embeddings of graphs in a surface), it is necessary to represent maps as logical structures. Three such representations are given, the most general being the full cross representation based on Tutte's theory of combinatorial maps. The main result says that if a class of maps has two properties, richness and large representativity, then the corresponding class of full cross representations has a 0–1 law with respect to first‐order logic. As a corollary the following classes of maps on a surface of fixed type have a first‐order 0–1 law: all maps, smooth maps, 2‐connected maps, 3‐connected maps, triangular maps, 2‐connected triangular maps, and 3‐connected triangular maps. ©1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 14, 215–237, 1999     

Spanning trees in hyperbolic graphs

We construct spanning trees in locally finite hyperbolic graphs that represent their hyperbolic compactification in a good way: so that the tree has at least one but at most a bounded number of disjoint rays to each boundary point. As a corollary we extend a result of Gromov which says that from every hyperbolic graph with bounded degrees one can construct a tree (disjoint from the graph) with a continuous surjection from the ends of the tree onto the hyperbolic boundary such that the surjection is finite-to-one. We shall construct a tree with these properties as a subgraph of the hyperbolic graph, which in addition is also a spanning tree of that graph.     

Properties of triangulations obtained by the longest-edge bisection

The Longest-Edge (LE) bisection of a triangle is obtained by joining the midpoint of its longest edge with the opposite vertex. Here two properties of the longest-edge bisection scheme for triangles are proved. For any triangle, the number of distinct triangles (up to similarity) generated by longest-edge bisection is finite. In addition, if LE-bisection is iteratively applied to an initial triangle, then minimum angle of the resulting triangles is greater or equal than a half of the minimum angle of the initial angle. The novelty of the proofs is the use of an hyperbolic metric in a shape space for triangles.     

A strengthening of a theorem of Bourgain and Kontorovich. V

It is proved that the denominators of finite continued fractions all of whose partial quotients belong to an arbitrary finite alphabet A with parameter δ > 0.7807... (i.e., such that the set of infinite continued fractions with partial quotients from this alphabet is of Hausdorff dimension δ with δ > 0.7807... ) contain a positive proportion of positive integers. Earlier, a similar theorem has been obtained only for alphabets with somewhat greater values of δ. Namely, the first result of this kind for an arbitrary finite alphabet with δ > 0.9839... is due to Bourgain and Kontorovich (2011). Then, in 2013, D.A. Frolenkov and the present author proved such a theorem for an arbitrary finite alphabet with δ > 0.8333.... The preceding result of 2015 of the present author concerned an arbitrary finite alphabet with δ > 0.7862....     

Radial Graphs with Constant Mean Curvature in the Hyperbolic Space

The existence is proved of radial graphs with constant mean curvature in the hyperbolic space H ⁿ⁺¹ defined over domains in geodesic spheres of H ⁿ⁺¹ whose boundary has positive mean curvature with respect to the inward orientation.     

Symbolic coding for the geodesic flow associated to a word hyperbolic group

 Let Γ be a word hyperbolic group M. Gromov has constructed a compact space equipped with a flow which is defined up to orbit-equivalence and which is called the geodesic flow of Γ. In the special case where Γ is the fundamental group of a Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature, is the unit tangent bundle of the manifold equipped with the usual geodesic flow. In this paper, we construct, for every hyperbolic group Γ, a subshift of finite type and a continuous map from the suspension of this subshift onto , which is uniformly bounded-to-one and which sends each orbit of the suspension flow onto an orbit of the geodesic flow. Received: 25 January 2002 / Revised version: 20 August 2002 Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 20F67, 20F65, 20F69, 53C23, 53C21, 37D40, 37B10, 54H20     

Group actions on metric spaces: fixed points and free subgroups

We look at group actions on graphs and other metric spaces, e. g., at group actions on geodesic hyperbolic spaces. We classify the types of automorphisms on these spaces and prove several results about the density of the hyperbolic limit set of the group in the whole limit set of the group.     

Geodesic subgraphs

Define a geodesic subgraph of a graph to be a subgraph H with the property that any geodesic of two points of H is in H. The trivial geodesic subgraphs are the complete graphs K_n' n ≧ 0, and G itself. We characterize all (finite, simple, connected) graphs with only the trivial geodesic subgraphs, and give an algorithm for their construction. We do this also for triangle-free graphs.     

单位球面中极小子流形的C∞紧性

本文研究了单位球面中极小子流形的C∞紧性,并得到两个紧性定理.作为应用,我们证明了存在正数δ(n),如果单位球面中极小子流形的第2基本形式的长度平方小于;2/3+δ(n),则它必须是全测地的或微分同胚于Veronese曲面.     

Geodesic knots in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds

We consider the existence of simple closed geodesics or “geodesic knots” in finite volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Every such manifold contains at least one geodesic knot by results of Adams, Hass and Scott in (Adams et al. Bull. London Math. Soc. 31: 81–86, 1999). In (Kuhlmann Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6: 2151–2162, 2006) we showed that every cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold in fact contains infinitely many geodesic knots. In this paper we consider the closed manifold case, and show that if a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold satisfies certain geometric and arithmetic conditions, then it contains infinitely many geodesic knots. The conditions on the manifold can be checked computationally, and have been verified for many manifolds in the Hodgson-Weeks census of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Our proof is constructive, and the infinite family of geodesic knots spiral around a short simple closed geodesic in the manifold.      

Partially hyperbolic geodesic flows

We construct a category of examples of partially hyperbolic geodesic flows which are not Anosov, deforming the metric of a compact locally symmetric space of nonconstant negative curvature. Candidates for such an example as the product metric and locally symmetric spaces of nonpositive curvature with rank bigger than one are not partially hyperbolic. We prove that if a metric of nonpositive curvature has a partially hyperbolic geodesic flow, then its rank is one. Other obstructions to partial hyperbolicity of a geodesic flow are also analyzed.