scholarly journals Characterisations of Elementary Pseudo-Caps and Good Eggs

10.37236/4913 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Rottey ◽  
Geertrui Van de Voorde
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof ◽  
Similar Statement ◽  
Combinatorial Argument ◽  
Good Element ◽  
Generalised Quadrangle ◽  
Desarguesian Spreads

In this note, we use the theory of Desarguesian spreads to investigate good eggs. Thas showed that an egg in $PG(4n-1,q)$, $q$ odd, with two good elements is elementary. By a short combinatorial argument, we show that a similar statement holds for large pseudo-caps, in odd and even characteristic. As a corollary, this improves and extends the result of Thas, Thas and Van Maldeghem (2006) where one needs at least $4$ good elements of an egg in even characteristic to obtain the same conclusion. We rephrase this corollary to obtain a characterisation of the generalised quadrangle $T_3(O)$ of Tits. Lavrauw (2005) characterises elementary eggs in odd characteristic as those good eggs containing a space that contains at least $5$ elements of the egg, but not the good element. We provide an adaptation of this characterisation for weak eggs in odd and even characteristic. As a corollary, we obtain a direct geometric proof for the theorem of Lavrauw.

A geometric proof that alternating knots are non-trivial

1991 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Menasco ◽  
Morwen Thistlethwaite
Keyword(s):  
Jones Polynomial ◽  
Related Result ◽  
Slight Variation ◽  
Geometric Proof ◽  
Link Diagram ◽  
Combinatorial Argument ◽  
Algebraic Invariant ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Alternating Links ◽  
Alternating Link

There are many proofs in the literature of the non-triviality of alternating, classical links in the 3-sphere, but almost all use a combinatorial argument involving some algebraic invariant, namely the determinant [1], the Alexander polynomial [3], the Jones polynomial [5], and, in [6], the Q-polynomial of Brandt–Lickorish–Millett. Indeed, alternating links behave remarkably well with respect to these and other invariants, but this fact has not led to any significant geometric understanding of alternating link types. Therefore it is natural to seek purely geometric proofs of geometric properties of these links. Gabai has given in [4] a striking geometric proof of a related result, also proved earlier by algebraic means in [3], namely that the Seifert surface obtained from a reduced alternating link diagram by Seifert's algorithm has minimal genus for that link. Here, we give an elementary geometric proof of non-triviality of alternating knots, using a slight variation of the techniques set forth in [7, 8]. Note that if L is a link of more than one component and some component of L is spanned by a disk whose interior lies in the complement of L, then L is a split link, i.e. it is separated by a 2-sphere in S3\L; thus we do not consider alternating links of more than one component here, as it is proved in [7] that a connected alternating diagram cannot represent a split link.

scholarly journals ON THE CHOW RING OF CERTAIN LEHN–LEHN–SORGER–VAN STRATEN EIGHTFOLDS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
CHIARA CAMERE ◽  
ALBERTO CATTANEO ◽  
ROBERT LATERVEER
Keyword(s):  
Chow Group ◽  
Chow Ring ◽  
Similar Statement ◽  
Intersection Product ◽  
Finite Dimensional

Abstract We consider a 10-dimensional family of Lehn–Lehn–Sorger–van Straten hyperkähler eightfolds, which have a non-symplectic automorphism of order 3. Using the theory of finite-dimensional motives, we show that the action of this automorphism on the Chow group of 0-cycles is as predicted by the Bloch–Beilinson conjectures. We prove a similar statement for the anti-symplectic involution on varieties in this family. This has interesting consequences for the intersection product of the Chow ring of these varieties.

A Geometric Proof of lim d →0 +(-dln d) = 0

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
John H. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof

A Lattice-Geometric Proof of Wedderburn’s Theorem

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 384-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan E. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof

A Geometric Proof of Machin's Formula

1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 336
Author(s):  
Roger B. Nelsen
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof

scholarly journals Non-defectivity of Grassmannian bundles over a curve

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (07) ◽  
pp. 1640002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Insong Choe ◽  
George H. Hitching
Keyword(s):  
Vector Bundles ◽  
Manuscripta Math ◽  
Maximal Degree ◽  
Geometric Proof ◽  
Secant Varieties ◽  
Grassmann Bundle ◽  
Positive Rank

Let [Formula: see text] be the Grassmann bundle of two-planes associated to a general bundle [Formula: see text] over a curve [Formula: see text]. We prove that an embedding of [Formula: see text] by a certain twist of the relative Plücker map is not secant defective. This yields a new and more geometric proof of the Hirschowitz-type bound on the isotropic Segre invariant for maximal isotropic sub-bundles of orthogonal bundles over [Formula: see text], analogous to those given for vector bundles and symplectic bundles in [I. Choe and G. H. Hitching, Secant varieties and Hirschowitz bound on vector bundles over a curve, Manuscripta Math. 133 (2010) 465–477, I. Choe and G. H. Hitching, Lagrangian sub-bundles of symplectic vector bundles over a curve, Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 153 (2012) 193–214]. From the non-defectivity, we also deduce an interesting feature of a general orthogonal bundle of even rank over [Formula: see text], contrasting with the classical and symplectic cases: a general maximal isotropic sub-bundle of maximal degree intersects at least one other such sub-bundle in positive rank.

The Koch Curve: A Geometric Proof

2007 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Šime Ungar
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof ◽  
Koch Curve
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