Generically the rigidity of bar-joint structures admits combinatorial characterisations in the Euclidean plane and, more generally, for frameworks on the sphere and the torus. The remaining case of compact surfaces of genus at least two has remained open. Using the hyperbolic geometry of their universal covers, we develop a theory of infinitesimal rigidity for frameworks on compact surfaces of genus at least two. By the uniformisation theorem, every such surface is a quotient of the hyperbolic plane by a surface group, allowing frameworks on the surface to be represented as infinite symmetric frameworks in the hyperbolic plane. Encoding the symmetry through gain graphs, we prove that infinitesimal rigidity is determined entirely by finite combinatorial data. Specifically, a framework is generically rigid if and only if its associated gain graph contains a spanning (2,3,1,0)-gain tight subgraph. This yields the first combinatorial characterisation of generic rigidity for frameworks on compact surfaces of genus at least two.
We develop a framework for studying discrete subgroups of $\mathsf{PGL}(d+1,\mathbb{R})$ via the paracomplex hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}_\tau^d$, a rank-$1$ pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space. We characterize projective transverse, relatively Anosov, and Anosov subgroups in terms of properly discontinuous, geometricall...
We study locally conformally flat (LCF) Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative or positive scalar curvature (PSC), using the conformal boundary of the developing image. For closed oriented LCF $n$-manifolds with PSC and infinite fundamental group, $n\ge5$, we bound the macroscopic dimension of their Riemannian universal...
We study the extension of the conformal structure of a Riemann surface, obtained as a submanifold of $\mathbf R^n$, across an isolated singular point, under hypotheses that are metric rather than analytic. The main result (1989) is that an isolated singularity is $\textbf{conformally point-like}$ (conformal to a punctu...
We develop a general construction of homogeneous solutions to the Bernoulli free boundary problem, as well as general extremal domains on the sphere, from isoparametric foliations of the sphere. Our construction produces rich families of infinitely many new examples with sophisticated topologies connected to minimal su...
B. Firester, Raphael Tsiamis, Zi-Hui Zhao· 0 citations
Let $S$ be an oriented surface, possibly of infinite type, endowed with a complete Riemannian metric with pinched negative curvature. We prove that the area form defines a non-trivial class in the second bounded cohomology group of $S$, unless $S$ is diffeomorphic to the disc or the cylinder. This is in sharp contrast...
We characterize equality in the finite free Stam and entropy-power inequalities, proving that Hermite polynomials are the unique extremizers among simple real-rooted inputs, up to independent translations and scalings. The proof turns this classification into a rigidity problem for projective plane curves. Using hyperb...
Baran Hashemi, Jihoon Hyun· 0 citations
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