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Topology of cell complexes and manifolds, classification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, surgery), low dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, invariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric group theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).

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What is the "serious" name for the topograph (for a quadratic form)

One way to study (mixed signature) quadratic forms in two variables is to study the topograph. Looks like the signature doesn't matter: here is (1,1) and (1-,1). The name is derived from τοποσ (Gree …
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"C choose k" where C is topological space

One day I read a generating function in a paper. For any "sufficietly nice topological space", $C$: $$ \sum_{l \geq 0 } q^{2l}\chi(\mathrm{Sym}^l[C]) = (1 - q^2)^{-\chi(C)} = \sum_{l \geq 0} \binom{ …
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How to get 3-manifold, Knots from Number Fields

I'm reading a paper On the Torsion Jacquet-Langlands correspondence by Akshay Venkatesh and Frank Calegari. Truthfully speaking I have no idea what Jacquet-Landlands is. I'm just trying to underst …
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Examples of automorphic forms over $\mathbb{H}^3/\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z}[i])$

If I understood my automorphic forms correctly, at least cusp forms can be thought of as elements of $L^2(G/\Gamma)$ for a $G = \text{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ and $\Gamma = \text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ or a sui …
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Find a surface or 3-manifold whose fundamental group is $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}) \rtimes (\...

I know by Van Kampen's Theorem that we can obtain $\pi_1(S_1 \vee S_1) = \mathbb{Z} * \mathbb{Z}$, so I am wondering if we can construct a surface or 3-manifold whose fundamental group is $\mathbb{Z}_ …
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examples of surface diffeomorphism that exhibit heteroclinic bifurcation?

I was reading about horseshoes and heterclinic bifurcation but my knowledge of dynamical systems is really old fashioned. as I understand the local stable manifold and the local unstable manifold in …
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Seifert-Fibered 3-Manifolds and Rotation Numbers

I was trying to understand how the "ziggurats" come about in the paper by Calegari and Walker. Motivating Question Given a free group F, and an element w of F, and given values of the rotation …
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Examples of Morse functions on unit tangent bundle of the sphere $T^1(S^2)$

In a sense, calculus is all about the study of critical points of functions on flat space $\mathbb{R}^N$ (e.g. here). Let's try a different venue, the unit tangent bundle of the sphere. $$ T^1(S^2) …
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Qualitative Solution of PDE on the 2-sphere (for weather prediction)

While I was watching the news last month I realized the weather report was basically a discussion of solutions to PDE. In particular, I was paying attention to the hurricane season (which is not yet o …
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Is there a topograph for Pythagorean triples?

I have been reading Allen Hatcher's notes on quadratic forms. Naturally, we draw a picture encoding all the values of a quadratic form in a topograph. These are build by iterating the parallelogram …
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deformed Gauss Bonnet formula?

I was reading about Gauss-Bonnet for circles, that integrating the curvature over the circle $\gamma(t)$ leads to the number of times $\gamma'(t)$ rotates around the origin. (The degree of the Gauss …
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Mathematical Definition of $n$-Brouillin Zone [duplicate]

I am having trouble finding a mathematical definition of the Brouillin zone beyond the first, which are basically the Voronoi cells or Wigner-Seitz cells. We could imagine the set of point closer to …
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Gaussian Integrals and Pseudo-Anosov Maps

The hep-th section of arXiv if often filled with beautiful semi-rigorous computations on Mathematics. However sometimes it is very difficult to understand what is being stated. Here I take from: Asp …
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Hausdorff Dimensions of Limit set of subgroups of SL(2,Z)

In a recent paper by Bourgain, Sarnak, Gamburd [1] talks about subgroups of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$. Let $\Lambda$ be a finitely generated non-elementary subgroup of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ with Hausdorff …
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Geometry of the space of circles in the Euclidean plane

We know that Mobius transformations, $z\to\frac{az+b}{cz+d}$, permutes circles and lines in the Euclidean plane, $(\mathbb{R}^2, dx^2 + dy^2 )$. It may even be possible to write an explicit formula …

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