ON MANIFOLD STRUCTURE OF CLOSED CURVES IN EUCLIDEAN SPACE

2008 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Tarek F. Mersal
Author(s):  
Benson Farb ◽  
Dan Margalit

This chapter considers the Dehn–Lickorish theorem, which states that when g is greater than or equal to 0, the mapping class group Mod(Sɡ) is generated by finitely many Dehn twists about nonseparating simple closed curves. The theorem is proved by induction on genus, and the Birman exact sequence is introduced as the key step for the induction. The key to the inductive step is to prove that the complex of curves C(Sɡ) is connected when g is greater than or equal to 2. The simplicial complex C(Sɡ) is a useful combinatorial object that encodes intersection patterns of simple closed curves in Sɡ. More detailed structure of C(Sɡ) is then used to find various explicit generating sets for Mod(Sɡ), including those due to Lickorish and to Humphries.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-277
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Veselovska ◽  
Veronika Dostoina

For the derivatives of Chebyshev second-kind polynomials of a complex vafiable, a system of functions biorthogonal with them on closed curves of the complex plane is constructed. Properties of these functions and the conditions of expansion of analytic functions in series in polynomials under consideration are established. The examples of such expansions are given. In addition, we obtain some combinatorial identities of independent interest.


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1810
Author(s):  
Lei Hua ◽  
Chongcheng Chen ◽  
Liyu Tang ◽  
Ying Jiang

Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon

This chapter returns to the problems which were formulated in Chapter 1, namely the Weinstein conjecture, the nonsqueezing theorem, and symplectic rigidity. These questions are all related to the existence and properties of symplectic capacities. The chapter begins by discussing some of the consequences which follow from the existence of capacities. In particular, it establishes symplectic rigidity and discusses the relation between capacities and the Hofer metric on the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms. The chapter then introduces the Hofer–Zehnder capacity, and shows that its existence gives rise to a proof of the Weinstein conjecture for hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. The last section contains a proof that the Hofer–Zehnder capacity satisfies the required axioms. This proof translates the Hofer–Zehnder variational argument into the setting of (finite-dimensional) generating functions.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (23) ◽  
pp. 2077-2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. POPOV

The anti-self-duality equations for gauge fields in d = 4 and a generalization of these equations to dimension d = 4n are considered. For gauge fields with values in an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra [Formula: see text] we introduce the ansatz which reduces the anti-self-duality equations in the Euclidean space ℝ4n to a system of equations breaking up into the well known Nahm's equations and some linear equations for scalar field φ.


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