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Planar Minimally Rigid Graphs And Pseudo-Triangulations, Ruth Haas, David Orden, Günter Rote, Francisco Santos, Herman Servatius, Diane Souvaine, Ileana Streinu, Walter Whiteley Jan 2003

Planar Minimally Rigid Graphs And Pseudo-Triangulations, Ruth Haas, David Orden, Günter Rote, Francisco Santos, Herman Servatius, Diane Souvaine, Ileana Streinu, Walter Whiteley

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

Pointed pseudo-triangulations are planar minimally rigid graphs embedded in the plane with pointed vertices (adjacent to an angle larger than π). In this paper we prove that the opposite statement is also true, namely that planar minimally rigid graphs always admit pointed embeddings, even under certain natural topological and combinatorial constraints. The proofs yield efficient embedding algorithms. They also provide - to the best of our knowledge - the first algorithmically effective result on graph embeddings with oriented matroid constraints other than convexity of faces. These constraints are described by combinatorial pseudo-triangulations, first defined and studied in this paper. Also …


A Dynamical System For Plant Pattern Formation: A Rigorous Analysis, Pau Atela, Christophe Golé, S. Hotton Jan 2003

A Dynamical System For Plant Pattern Formation: A Rigorous Analysis, Pau Atela, Christophe Golé, S. Hotton

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We present a rigorous mathematical analysis of a discrete dynamical system modeling plant pattern formation. In this model, based on the work of physicists Douady and Couder, fixed points are the spiral or helical lattices often occurring in plants. The frequent occurrence of the Fibonacci sequence in the number of visible spirals is explained by the stability of the fixed points in this system, as well as by the structure of their bifurcation diagram. We provide a detailed study of this diagram.


Long Time Behavior Of Solutions To The 3d Compressible Euler Equations With Damping, Thomas C. Sideris, Becca Thomases, Dehua Wang Jan 2003

Long Time Behavior Of Solutions To The 3d Compressible Euler Equations With Damping, Thomas C. Sideris, Becca Thomases, Dehua Wang

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

The effect of damping on the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations is studied. It is proved that damping prevents the development of singularities in small amplitude classical solutions, using an equivalent reformulation of the Cauchy problem to obtain effective energy estimates. The full solution relaxes in the maximum norm to the constant background state at a rate of t-3/2. While the fluid vorticity decays to zero exponentially fast in time, the full solution does not decay exponentially. Formation of singularities is also exhibited for large data.


Regularity Of Minimizers Of The Calculus Of Variations In Carnot Groups Via Hypoellipticity Of Systems Of Hörmander Type, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo Jan 2003

Regularity Of Minimizers Of The Calculus Of Variations In Carnot Groups Via Hypoellipticity Of Systems Of Hörmander Type, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We prove the hypoellipticity for systems of Hörmander type with constant coefficients in Carnot groups of step 2. This result is used to implement blow-up methods and prove partial regularity for local minimizers of non-convex functionals, and for solutions of non-linear systems which appear in the study of non-isotropic metric structures with scalings. We also establish estimates of the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set.


On The Quantum Moduli Space Of M-Theory Compactifications, Tamar Friedmann Jul 2002

On The Quantum Moduli Space Of M-Theory Compactifications, Tamar Friedmann

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We study the moduli space of M-theories compactified on G2 manifolds which are asymptotic to a cone over quotients of S3 × S3. We show that the moduli space is composed of several components, each of which interpolates smoothly among various classical limits corresponding to low energy gauge theories with a given number of massless U (1) factors. Each component smoothly interpolates among supersymmetric gauge theories with different gauge groups.


Lagrangian Systems On Hyperbolic Manifolds, Philip Boyland, Christophe Golé Jan 1999

Lagrangian Systems On Hyperbolic Manifolds, Philip Boyland, Christophe Golé

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

This paper gives two results that show that the dynamics of a time-periodic Lagrangian system on a hyperbolic manifold are at least as complicated as the geodesic flow of a hyperbolic metric. Given a hyperbolic geodesic in the Poincaré ball, Theorem A asserts that there are minimizers of the lift of the Lagrangian system that are a bounded distance away and have a variety of approximate speeds. Theorem B gives the existence of a collection of compact invariant sets of the Euler-Lagrange flow that are semiconjugate to the geodesic flow of a hyperbolic metric. These results can be viewed as …


A Version Of A Theorem Of Dahlberg For The Subelliptic Dirichlet Problem, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo, Duy Minh Nhieu Jan 1998

A Version Of A Theorem Of Dahlberg For The Subelliptic Dirichlet Problem, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo, Duy Minh Nhieu

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A Note On Carnot Geodesics In Nilpotent Lie Groups, Christophe Golé, Ron Karidi Oct 1995

A Note On Carnot Geodesics In Nilpotent Lie Groups, Christophe Golé, Ron Karidi

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We show that strictly abnormal geodesics arise in graded nilpotent Lie groups. We construct a group, with a left invariant bracket-generating distribution, for which some Carnot geodecics are strictly abnormal and, in fact, not normal in any subgroup. In the 2-step case we also prove that these geodesics are always smooth. Our main technique is based on the equations for the normal and abnormal curves, which we derive (for any Lie group) explicitly in terms of the structure constants. © 1995 Plenum Publishing Corporation.


Optical Hamiltonians And Symplectic Twist Maps, Christophe Golé Feb 1994

Optical Hamiltonians And Symplectic Twist Maps, Christophe Golé

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

This paper concentrates on optical Hamiltonian systems of T*Tn, i.e., those for which Hpp is a positive definite matrix, and their relationship with symplectic twist maps. We present theorems of decomposition by symplectic twist maps and existence of periodic orbits for these systems. The novelty of these results resides in the fact that no explicit asymptotic condition is imposed on the system.


Periodic Orbits For Hamiltonian Systems In Cotangent Bundles, Christophe Golé Jan 1994

Periodic Orbits For Hamiltonian Systems In Cotangent Bundles, Christophe Golé

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We prove the existence of at least cl(Af) periodic orbits for certain time-dependent Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle of an arbitrary compact manifold M. These Hamiltonians are not necessarily convex but they satisfy a certain boundary condition given by a Riemannian metric on M. We discretize the variational problem by decomposing the time-1 map into a product of "symplectic twist maps". A second theorem deals with homotopically non-trivial orbits of negative curvature.


A New Proof Of The Aubry-Mather's Theorem, Christophe Golé Dec 1992

A New Proof Of The Aubry-Mather's Theorem, Christophe Golé

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Ghost Circles For Twist Maps, Christophe Golé Jan 1992

Ghost Circles For Twist Maps, Christophe Golé

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

Completely ordered invariant circles are found for the gradient of the energy flow in the state space, containing the critical sets corresponding to the Birkhoff orbits of all rotation number. In particular, these ghost circles contain the Aubry-Mather sets and map-invariant circles as completely critical sets when these exist. We give a criterion for a sequence of rational ghost circles to converge to a completely critical one.