Questions tagged [smoothing-theory]
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What heuristic arguments support Montgomery's conjecture for primes in short intervals?
I have a question regarding a conjecture due to H. L. Montgomery on the number of primes in short intervals. The conjecture apparently arises from probabilistic reasoning upon assuming the Riemann ...
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Smoothing tame topological knots, from an analytic perspective
A tame topological knot (for the purpose of this question) is a topological embedding of $S^1 \times D^2$ into $\Bbb R^3$.
Tame topological knots are known to be isotopic to smooth knots. This ...
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Markov triples and Newton-Okounkov bodies of $\mathbb{P}^2$
I am working on symplectic geometry and I have some questions about a degeneration of $\mathbb{P}^2$.
Question: Can we obtain the moment polytope (or the polytope associated with the anti-canonical ...
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Knots: locally flat, PL and smooth
In the classical dimension (knots in $S^3$), it is considered standard (I think?) that the following sets are in bijective correspondence:
locally flat knots up to ambient isotopy;
PL-knots up to PL ...
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Haefliger trefoil $S^3\hookrightarrow S^6$
It is known that the Haefliger trefoil $S^3\hookrightarrow S^6$ is PL trivial but non-trivial smoothly. I wonder, where exactly does the problem come? Consider its tubular neighborhood $T\cong S^3\...
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Is $\operatorname{PL}_{n,n-1}$ contractible?
$\DeclareMathOperator\PL{PL}$Consider the group $\PL_{n,n-1}$ of orientation preserving PL self-homeomorphisms of $\mathbb R^n$ that also preserve $\mathbb R^{n-1}$ pointwise. It is usually understood ...
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$\operatorname{STop}_{n,n-2}\simeq S^1$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\STop{STop}$I am interested in any information about the homotopy type of the groups $\STop_{n,j}$ of homeomorphisms of $R^n$ preserving orientation and pointwise $R^j\subset R^n$....
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Existence of smooth structures on topological $3$-manifolds with boundary
It is said in this thread Unique smooth structure on $3$-manifolds that every topological $3$-manifold admits a smooth structure. However it is not specified whether the manifolds are allowed to have ...
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Smoothing a periodic function of two variables
Let $F \colon \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^n$ be a $C^{1}$-function 1-periodic in each variable, so it can be considered as a function on the flat torus $\mathbb{T}^2 = \mathbb{R}^2 / \mathbb{Z}^2$. We ...
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log-convexity of Mollified function?
Let $f:{\mathbb R}\rightarrow{\mathbb R}_+$ be a log-convex function. Suppose that $f_{\epsilon}$ is the smoothed version of $f$:
$$f_{\epsilon}(x)=\int \varphi_{\epsilon}(x-y)f(y)dy,$$
where $\...
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smoothing a current
Let $M$ be a smooth oriented manifold of dimension $n$ and $T$ a current of dimension $k$ on $M$. Let $\phi:P\times M \to M$ be a proper smooth family of diffeomorphisms of $M$ (i.e. $P$ is a smooth ...
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Isotopy extension theorems
I'm looking for the origins of the isotopy extension theorem in categories other than the smooth category.
Precisely, in the smooth category, the isotopy extension theorem says that if $f : [0,1] \...
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Are there non-compact, non-smoothable manifolds?
There do exist manifolds which do not admit any smooth structure at all. But the only examples I've heard of are all compact.
Are there any non-compact, non-smoothable manifolds?
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Diffeomorphisms vs homeomorphisms of 3-manifolds
For a smooth 3-manifold $M$, is the natural map from the space of diffeomorphisms of $M$ to the space of homeomorphisms of $M$,
$${\sf Diff}(M) \longrightarrow {\sf Top}(M),$$
a weak homotopy ...