Planar surfaces in three-manifolds.
Let r = 3, 4, ... , ∞, ω. The Cr-Carathéodory's Conjecture states that every Cr convex embedding of a 2-sphere into R3 must have at least two umbilics. The Cr-Loewner's conjecture (stronger than the one of Carathéodory) states that there are no umbilics of index bigger than one. We show that these two conjectures are equivalent to others about planar vector fields. For instance, if r ≠ ω, Cr-Carathéodory's Conjecture is equivalent to the following one:Let ρ > 0 and β: U ⊂ R2 → R, be of class...
In this paper we give a direct and explicit description of the local topological embedding of a plane curve singularity using the Puiseux expansions of its branches in a given set of coordinates.
The goal of this article is to show some examples of topological manifolds: planes and spheres in Euclidean space. In doing it, the article introduces the stereographic projection [25].
Let be a smooth projective surface, the canonical divisor, a very ample divisor and the moduli space of rank-two vector bundles, -stable with Chern classes and . We prove that, if there exists such that is numerically equivalent to and if is even, greater or equal to , then there is no Poincaré bundle on . Conversely, if there exists such that the number is odd or if is odd, then there exists a Poincaré bundle on .
We prove that every commutative differential graded algebra whose cohomology is a simply-connected Poincaré duality algebra is quasi-isomorphic to one whose underlying algebra is simply-connected and satisfies Poincaré duality in the same dimension. This has applications in rational homotopy, giving Poincaré duality at the cochain level, which is of interest in particular in the study of configuration spaces and in string topology.