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Direction problems in affine spaces
This paper is a survey paper on old and recent results on direction problems
in finite dimensional affine spaces over a finite field.Comment: Academy Contact Forum "Galois geometries and applications", October
5, 2012, Brussels, Belgiu
Influence of mean distance between fibers on the effective gas thermal conductivity in highly porous fibrous materials
This work was supported by the Russian Goverment Grant No. 14.Z50.31.0036.Peer reviewedPostprin
Compactifications of Heterotic Strings on Non-Kahler Complex Manifolds: II
We continue our study of heterotic compactifications on non-Kahler complex
manifolds with torsion. We give further evidence of the consistency of the
six-dimensional manifold presented earlier and discuss the anomaly cancellation
and possible supergravity description for a generic non-Kahler complex manifold
using the newly proposed superpotential. The manifolds studied in our earlier
papers had zero Euler characteristics. We construct new examples of non-Kahler
complex manifolds with torsion in lower dimensions, that have non-zero Euler
characteristics. Some of these examples are constructed from consistent
backgrounds in F-theory and therefore are solutions to the string equations of
motion. We discuss consistency conditions for compactifications of the
heterotic string on smooth non-Kahler manifolds and illustrate how some results
well known for Calabi-Yau compactifications, including counting the number of
generations, apply to the non-Kahler case. We briefly address various issues
regarding possible phenomenological applications.Comment: 106 pages, 8 .eps figures, Harvmac; v2: Some sections expanded, typos
corrected and references updated; v3: More typos corrected, one section
expanded and references added. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys.
On the number of tetrahedra with minimum, unit, and distinct volumes in three-space
We formulate and give partial answers to several combinatorial problems on
volumes of simplices determined by points in 3-space, and in general in
dimensions. (i) The number of tetrahedra of minimum (nonzero) volume spanned by
points in \RR^3 is at most , and there are point sets
for which this number is . We also present an time
algorithm for reporting all tetrahedra of minimum nonzero volume, and thereby
extend an algorithm of Edelsbrunner, O'Rourke, and Seidel. In general, for
every k,d\in \NN, , the maximum number of -dimensional
simplices of minimum (nonzero) volume spanned by points in \RR^d is
. (ii) The number of unit-volume tetrahedra determined by
points in \RR^3 is , and there are point sets for which this
number is . (iii) For every d\in \NN, the minimum
number of distinct volumes of all full-dimensional simplices determined by
points in \RR^d, not all on a hyperplane, is .Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures, a preliminary version has appeard in proceedings
of the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 200
Nivat's conjecture holds for sums of two periodic configurations
Nivat's conjecture is a long-standing open combinatorial problem. It concerns
two-dimensional configurations, that is, maps where is a finite set of symbols. Such configurations are often
understood as colorings of a two-dimensional square grid. Let denote
the number of distinct block patterns occurring in a configuration
. Configurations satisfying for some
are said to have low rectangular complexity. Nivat conjectured that such
configurations are necessarily periodic.
Recently, Kari and the author showed that low complexity configurations can
be decomposed into a sum of periodic configurations. In this paper we show that
if there are at most two components, Nivat's conjecture holds. As a corollary
we obtain an alternative proof of a result of Cyr and Kra: If there exist such that , then is periodic. The
technique used in this paper combines the algebraic approach of Kari and the
author with balanced sets of Cyr and Kra.Comment: Accepted for SOFSEM 2018. This version includes an appendix with
proofs. 12 pages + references + appendi
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