On Branched Coverings of the 3-Sphere.
We prove that if the Walsh bipartite map of a regular oriented hypermap is also orientably regular then both and have the same chirality group, the covering core of (the smallest regular map covering ) is the Walsh bipartite map of the covering core of and the closure cover of (the greatest regular map covered by ) is the Walsh bipartite map of the closure cover of . We apply these results to the family of toroidal chiral hypermaps induced by the family of toroidal bipartite maps...
Let k be a fixed natural number. We show that if C is a closed and nonconvex set in Hilbert space such that the closures of the projections onto all k-hyperplanes (planes with codimension k) are convex and proper, then C must contain a closed copy of Hilbert space. In order to prove this result we introduce for convex closed sets B the set consisting of all points of B that are extremal with respect to projections onto k-hyperplanes. We prove that is precisely the intersection of all k-imitations...
Let be a triangulable compact manifold. We prove that, among closed subgroups of (the identity component of the group of homeomorphisms of ), the subgroup consisting of volume preserving elements is maximal.