Geodesic surfaces in knot complements.
Let be a surface, let be a subsurface, and let be two positive integers. The inclusion of in gives rise to a homomorphism from the braid group with strings on to the braid group with strings on . We first determine necessary and sufficient conditions that this homomorphism is injective, and we characterize the commensurator, the normalizer and the centralizer of in . Then we calculate the commensurator, the normalizer and the centralizer of in for large surface braid...
Let be a knot in the -sphere , and a disk in meeting transversely in the interior. For non-triviality we assume that over all isotopies of in . Let () be a knot obtained from by twistings along the disk . If the original knot is unknotted in , we call a twisted knot. We describe for which pair and an integer , the twisted knot is a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot.
À tout dessin d’enfant est associé un revêtement ramifié de la droite projective complexe , non ramifié en dehors de 0, 1 et l’infini. Cet article a pour but de décrire la structure algébrique de l’image réciproque de la droite projective réelle par ce revêtement, en termes de la combinatoire du dessin d’enfant. Sont rappelées en annexe les propriétés de la restriction de Weil et des dessins d’enfants utilisées.
On expose une preuve détaillée de la classification par Thurston des huit géométries modèles de dimension trois.
This is a survey about Thurston’s geometrization conjecture of three manifolds and Perelman’s proof with the Ricci flow. In particular we review the essential contribution of Hamilton as well as some results in topology relevants for the proof.
We survey two problems illustrating geometric-topological and Hamiltonian methods in fluid mechanics: energy relaxation of a magnetic field and conservation laws for ideal fluid motion. More details and results, as well as a guide to the literature on these topics can be found in [3].