THE TOPOLOGICAL AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF NONORIENTABLE SURFACES

Four topological and dynamical properties of nonorientable surfaces are proved.Thefirst is that for every continuous flow defined on any nonorientable closed surface,thereexist periodic or singular closed orbits.In the case of the projective plane,it confirms aconjecture of professor Ye Yian-qian in his lecture notes“dynamical systems on surfaces”.Secondly,the author gives an exact upper bound of the number of closed curves onnonorientable surfaces,which do not intersect each other and the complement of their sumis still connected.The third is concerned with the upper and lower bound of the number ofthe periodic or singular closed orbits with certain properties.The last is related to theconnectedness of the complement of a lifting curve on two-fold covering space.The firstproperty may be considered as a generalization of Kneser theorem from Klein bottle togeneral nonorientable surfaces and the second as a generalization of[4]Theorem 9.3.6from orientable surfaces to nonorientable surfaces.     

Minimal total absolute curvature for immersions

Immersions or maps of closed manifolds in Euclidean space, of minimal absolute total curvature are called tight in this paper. (They were called convex in [25].) After the definition in Chapter 1, many examples in Chapter 2, and some special topics in Chapter 3, we prove in Chapter 4 that topological tight immersions ofn-spheres are only of the expected type, namely embeddings onto the boundary of a convexn+1-dimensional body. This generalises a theorem of Chern and Lashof in the smooth case. In Chapter 5 we show that many manifolds exist that have no tight smooth immersion in any Euclidean space.This research was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant GP-7952X1.     

Smooth approximation of polyhedral surfaces regarding curvatures

In this paper we prove that every closed polyhedral surface in Euclidean three-space can be approximated (uniformly with respect to the Hausdorff metric) by smooth surfaces of the same topological type such that not only the (Gaussian) curvature but also the absolute curvature and the absolute mean curvature converge in the measure sense. This gives a direct connection between the concepts of total absolute curvature for both smooth and polyhedral surfaces which have been worked out by several authors, particularly N. H. Kuiper and T. F. Banchoff.The present paper is a detailed version of the short announcement [3].     

Vertex-transitive graphs and vertex-transitive maps

We consider vertex-transitive graphs embeddable on a fixed surface. We prove that all but a finite number of them admit embeddings as vertex-transitive maps on surfaces of nonnegative Euler characteristic (sphere, projective plane, torus, or Klein bottle). It follows that with the exception of the cycles and a finite number of additional graphs, they are factor graphs of semiregular plane tilings. The results generalize previous work on the genus of minimal Cayley graphs by V. Proulx and T. W. Tucker and were obtained independently by C. Thomassen, with significant differences in the methods used. Our method is based on an excursion into the infinite. The local structure of our finite graphs is studied via a pointwise limit construction, and the infinite vertex-transitive graphs obtained as such limits are classified by their connectivity and the number of ends. In two appendices, we derive a combinatorial version of Hurwitz's Theorem, and classify the vertex-transitive maps on the Klein bottle.     

Hyperellipticity and systoles of Klein surfaces

Given a hyperelliptic Klein surface, we construct companion Klein bottles, extending our technique of companion tori already exploited by the authors in the genus 2 case. Bavard??s short loops on such companion surfaces are studied in relation to the original surface so to improve a systolic inequality of Gromov??s. A basic idea is to use length bounds for loops on a companion Klein bottle, and then analyze how curves transplant to the original non-orientable surface. We exploit the real structure on the orientable double cover by applying the coarea inequality to the distance function from the real locus. Of particular interest is the case of Dyck??s surface. We also exploit an optimal systolic bound for the M?bius band, due to Blatter.     

Degree-regular triangulations of torus and Klein bottle

A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called weakly regular if the action of its automorphism group on its vertices is transitive. A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called degree-regular if each of its vertices have the same degree. Clearly, a weakly regular triangulation is degree-regular. In [8], Lutz has classified all the weakly regular triangulations on at most 15 vertices. In [5], Datta and Nilakantan have classified all the degree-regular triangulations of closed surfaces on at most 11 vertices. In this article, we have proved that any degree-regular triangulation of the torus is weakly regular. We have shown that there exists ann-vertex degree-regular triangulation of the Klein bottle if and only if n is a composite number ≥ 9. We have constructed two distinctn-vertex weakly regular triangulations of the torus for eachn ≥ 12 and a (4m + 2)-vertex weakly regular triangulation of the Klein bottle for eachm ≥ 2. For 12 ≤n ≤ 15, we have classified all then-vertex degree-regular triangulations of the torus and the Klein bottle. There are exactly 19 such triangulations, 12 of which are triangulations of the torus and remaining 7 are triangulations of the Klein bottle. Among the last 7, only one is weakly regular.     

Eigenvalues of the Wentzell–Laplace operator and of the fourth order Steklov problems

We prove a sharp upper bound and a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Wentzell–Laplace operator on compact manifolds with boundary and an isoperimetric inequality for the same eigenvalue in the case where the manifold is a bounded domain in a Euclidean space. We study some fourth order Steklov problems and obtain isoperimetric upper bound for the first eigenvalue of them. We also find all the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for two kind of fourth order Steklov problems on a Euclidean ball.     

STRONG EMBEDDINGS OF PLANAR GRAPHS ON HIGHER SURFACES

In this paper, the authors discuss the upper bound for the genus of strong embeddings for 3-connected planar graphs on higher surfaces. It is shown that the problem of determining the upper bound for the strong embedding of 3-connected planar near-triangulations on higher non-orientable surfaces is NP-hard. As a corollary, a theorem of Richter, Seymour and Siran about the strong embedding of 3-connected planar graphs is generalized to orientable surface.     

A new bound on the local density of sphere packings

It is shown that a packing of unit spheres in three-dimensional Euclidean space can have density at most 0.773055..., and that a Voronoi polyhedron defined by such a packing must have volume at least 5.41848... These bounds are superior to the best bounds previously published [5] (0.77836 and 5.382, respectively), but are inferior to the tight bounds of 0.7404... and 5.550... claimed by Hsiang [2]. Our bounds are proved by cutting a Voronoi polyhedron into cones, one for each of its faces. A lower bound is established on the volume of each cone as a function of its solid angle. Convexity arguments then show that the sum of all the cone volume bounds is minimized when there are 13 faces each of solid angle 4π/13.     

BOUNDS ON COINCIDENCE INDICES ON NON-ORIENTABLE SURFACES

§ 1 . IntroductionQuestions about bounds for indices ?rst appeared in the ?xed point context. The ?rstresults appeared in studies of surface homeomorphisms (see [13, 18, 19]). In [12, 14] and[15] some results about bounds for Nielsen ?xed point class ind…     

A Condition for a Closed One-Form to Be Exact

A condition for a closed one-form to be exact, the one-form having values in Euclidean space, on a compact surface without boundary, is given in the case where the surface has suitable differentiable automorphisms. Tori and hyperelliptic curves, with holomorphic automorphisms, are in this case. A local representation formula for surfaces in Euclidean space is then globalized. A condition for a local surface of constant mean curvature to be global, can be written using a harmonic Gauss map.     

Coincidence Wecken homotopies versus Wecken homotopies relative to a fixed homotopy in one of the maps

We study the 1-parameter Wecken problem versus the restricted Wecken problem, for coincidence free pairs of maps between surfaces. For this we use properties of the function space between two surfaces and of the pure braid group on two strings of a surface. When the target surface is either the 2-sphere or the torus it is known that the two problems are the same. We classify most pairs of homotopy classes of maps according to the answer of the two problems are either the same or different when the target is either projective space or the Klein bottle. Some partial results are given for surfaces of negative Euler characteristic.     

A Lower Bound on the Distortion of Embedding Planar Metrics into Euclidean Space

We exhibit a simple infinite family of series-parallel graphs that cannot be metrically embedded into Euclidean space with distortion smaller than

Spanning subsets of toroidal and Klein bottle embeddings

We study the spanning subsets of toroidal and Klein bottle embeddings, such as spanning disks, spanning cylinders and spanning Möbius bands.     

Embedding a graph-like continuum in a surface

Graph-like continua provide a very natural setting for generalizing finite graphs to infinite, compact structures. For example, the Freudenthal compactification of a locally finite graph, exploited by Diestel and his students in their study of the cycle space of an infinite graph, is an example of a graph-like continuum. Generalizing earlier works in special cases, the authors, along with Christian, have proved MacLane’s and Whitney’s characterizations of planarity for graph-like continua (Electron. J. Combin. 17 (2010)). In this work, we consider embeddings of graph-like continua in compact surfaces and show that: (i) every edge is in an open disc that meets the graph-like continuum precisely in that edge; (ii) there are natural analogues of face boundary walks; (iii) there is a graph-like continuum triangulating the same surface and containing as a sub-graphlike continuum the original embedded graph-like continuum; (iv) the face boundaries generate a subspace of the cycle space; and (v) the quotient of the cycle space by the boundary cycles is the homology of the surface. These all generalize results known for embeddings of finite graphs.     

Singularities of Solution Surfaces for Quasilinear First-Order Partial Differential Equations

For a closed curve in a CAT(K) space with given circumradius and upper bound on curvature, a basic lower bound on the length is established. The inequality is sharp, assumed only when the curve is the boundary of an isometric copy of a racetrack (the convex hull of two congruent circles) from a plane of constant curvature K. Previously such a theorem was proved for Euclidean plane curves by G.D.Chakerian, H.H. Johnson, and A. Vogt, and for curves in higher dimensional Euclidean spaces by A.D. Milka. A similar theorem is proved for nonclosed curves, with a notion of breadth replacing circumradius. Thus we illustrate how singular methods can extend classical Euclidean theorems to a large class of new spaces (including Riemannian manifolds of curvature bounded above) and also give significant strengthenings even in Euclidean space.     

Shelling pseudopolyhedra

The notion of shellability originated in the context of polyhedral complexes and combinatorial topology. An abstraction of this concept for graded posets (i.e., graded partially ordered sets) was recently introduced by Björner and Wachs first in the finite case [1] and then with Walker in the infinite case [11]. Many posets arising in combinatorics and in convex geometry were investigated and some proved to be shellable. A key achievement was the proof by Bruggesser and Mani that boundary complexes of convex polytopes are shellable [4].We extend here the result of Bruggesser and Mani to polyhedral complexes arising as boundary complexes of more general convex sets, called pseudopolyhedra, with suitable asymptotic behavior. This includes a previous result on tilings of a Euclidean space ^d which are projections of the boundary of a (d+1)-pseudopolyhedron [7].     

Eigenvalue estimates for minimal hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space

Recently Candel [A. Candel, Eigenvalue estimates for minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007) 3567-3575] proved that if M is a simply-connected stable minimal surface isometrically immersed in H³, then the first eigenvalue of M satisfies 1/4?λ(M)?4/3 and he asked whether the bound is sharp and gave an example such that the lower bound is attained. In this note, we prove that the upper bound can never be attained. Also we extend the result by proving that if M is compact stable minimal hypersurface isometrically immersed in Hn+1 where n?3 such that its smooth Yamabe invariant is negative, then (n−1)/4?λ(M)?n²(n−2)/(7n−6).     

Orthogonal sequences and regularity of embeddings into finite-dimensional spaces

This paper focuses on the regularity of linear embeddings of finite-dimensional subsets of Hilbert and Banach spaces into Euclidean spaces. We study orthogonal sequences in a Hilbert space H, whose elements tend to zero, and similar sequences in the space c₀ of null sequences. The examples studied show that the results due to Hunt and Kaloshin (Regularity of embeddings of infinite-dimensional fractal sets into finite-dimensional spaces, Nonlinearity 12 (1999) 1263-1275) and Robinson (Linear embeddings of finite-dimensional subsets of Banach spaces into Euclidean spaces, Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 711-728) for subsets of Hilbert and Banach spaces with finite box-counting dimension are asymptotically sharp. An analogous argument allows us to obtain a lower bound for the power of the logarithmic correction term in an embedding theorem proved by Olson and Robinson (Almost bi-Lipschitz embeddings and almost homogeneous sets, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (1) (2010) 145-168) for subsets X of Hilbert spaces when X−X has finite Assouad dimension.     

关于循环图的曲面嵌入

该文集中探讨循环图的曲面嵌入性质.决定了所有循环图的最小亏格(其中包括可定向亏格与不可定向亏格)和最大亏格.对于固定的整数l(≥3)和充分大的 自然数n,只有一种方式将4 -正则循环图C(n,l)嵌入到环面上使得其每一个面都是4 -边形.特别地,循环图$C(2l+2,l)$在加入若干条新边后可以同时将环面与Klein瓶进行三角剖分.