In this brief note, we investigate the -genus of knots, i.e., the least genus of a smooth, compact, orientable surface in bounded by a knot in . We show that this quantity is unbounded, unlike its topological counterpart. We also investigate the -genus of torus knots. We apply these results to improve the minimal genus bound for some homology classes in .
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A nonlinear least-squares convexity enforcing 𝐶⁰ interior penalty method for the Monge–Ampère equation on strictly convex smooth planar domains
We construct a nonlinear least-squares finite element method for computing the smooth convex solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem of the Monge-Ampère equation on strictly convex smooth domains in . It is based on an isoparametric finite element space with exotic degrees of freedom that can enforce the convexity of the approximate solutions.A priorianda posteriorierror estimates together with corroborating numerical results are presented.
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- PAR ID:
- 10548093
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Communications of the American Mathematical Society
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 14
- ISSN:
- 2692-3688
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 607-640
- Size(s):
- p. 607-640
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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