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Let $G$ be a ribbon graph. Matthew Baker and Yao Wang proved that the rotor-routing torsor and the Bernardi torsor for $G$, which are two torsor structures on the set of spanning trees for the Picard group of $G$, coincide when $G$ is planar. We prove the conjecture raised by them that the two torsors disagree when $G$ is non-planar.
We introduce the split torsor method to count rational points of bounded height on Fano varieties. As an application, we prove Manins conjecture for all nonsplit quartic del Pezzo surfaces of type $mathbf A_3+mathbf A_1$ over arbitrary number fields. The counting problem on the split torsor is solved in the framework of o-minimal structures.
Baker and Wang define the so-called Bernardi action of the sandpile group of a ribbon graph on the set of its spanning trees. This potentially depends on a fixed vertex of the graph but it is independent of the base vertex if and only if the ribbon structure is planar, moreover, in this case the Bernardi action is compatible with planar duality. Earlier, Chan, Church and Grochow and Chan, Glass, Macauley, Perkinson, Werner and Yang proved analogous results about the rotor-routing action. Baker and Wang moreover showed that the Bernardi and rotor-routing actions coincide for plane graphs. We clarify this still confounding picture by giving a canonical definition for the planar Bernardi/rotor-routing action, and also a canonical isomorphism between sandpile groups of planar dual graphs. Our canonical definition implies the compatibility with planar duality via an extremely short argument. We also show hidden symmetries of the problem by proving our results in the slightly more general setting of balanced plane digraphs. Any balanced plane digraph gives rise to a trinity, i.e., a triangulation of the sphere with a three-coloring of the $0$-simplices. Our most important tool is a group associated to trinities, introduced by Cavenagh and Wanless, and a result of a subset of the authors characterizing the Bernardi bijection in terms of a dissection of a root polytope.
A cornerstone theorem in the Graph Minors series of Robertson and Seymour is the result that every graph $G$ with no minor isomorphic to a fixed graph $H$ has a certain structure. The structure can then be exploited to deduce far-reaching consequences. The exact statement requires some explanation, but roughly it says that there exist integers $k,n$ depending on $H$ only such that $0<k<n$ and for every $ntimes n$ grid minor $J$ of $G$ the graph $G$ has a a $k$-near embedding in a surface $Sigma$ that does not embed $H$ in such a way that a substantial part of $J$ is embedded in $Sigma$. Here a $k$-near embedding means that after deleting at most $k$ vertices the graph can be drawn in $Sigma$ without crossings, except for local areas of non-planarity, where crossings are permitted, but at most $k$ of these areas are attached to the rest of the graph by four or more vertices and inside those the graph is constrained in a different way, again depending on the parameter $k$. The original and only proof so far is quite long and uses many results developed in the Graph Minors series. We give a proof that uses only our earlier paper [A new proof of the flat wall theorem, {it J.~Combin. Theory Ser. B bf 129} (2018), 158--203] and results from graduate textbooks. Our proof is constructive and yields a polynomial time algorithm to construct such a structure. We also give explicit constants for the structure theorem, whereas the original proof only guarantees the existence of such constants.
In the context of product quality, the methods that can be used to estimate machining defects and predict causes of these defects are one of the important factors of a manufacturing process. The two approaches that are presented in this article are used to determine the machining defects. The first approach uses the Small Displacement Torsor (SDT) concept [BM] to determine displacement dispersions (translations and rotations) of machined surfaces. The second one, which takes into account form errors of machined surface (i.e. twist, comber, undulation), uses a geometrical model based on the modal shapes properties, namely the form parameterization method [FS1]. A case study is then carried out to analyze the machining defects of a batch of machined parts.
A graph $G=(V,E)$ is total weight $(k,k)$-choosable if the following holds: For any list assignment $L$ which assigns to each vertex $v$ a set $L(v)$ of $k$ real numbers, and assigns to each edge $e$ a set $L(e)$ of $k$ real numbers, there is a proper $L$-total weighting, i.e., a map $phi: V cup E to mathbb{R}$ such that $phi(z) in L(z)$ for $z in V cup E$, and $sum_{e in E(u)}phi(e)+phi(u) e sum_{e in E(v)}phi(e)+phi(v)$ for every edge ${u,v}$. A graph is called nice if it contains no isolated edges. As a strengthening of the famous 1-2-3 conjecture, it was conjectured in [T. Wong and X. Zhu, Total weigt choosability of graphs, J. Graph Th. 66 (2011),198-212] that every nice graph is total weight $(1,3)$-choosable. The problem whether there is a constant $k$ such that every nice graph is total weight $(1,k)$-choosable remained open for a decade and was recently solved by Cao [L. Cao, Total weight choosability of graphs: Towards the 1-2-3 conjecture, J. Combin. Th. B, 149(2021), 109-146], who proved that every nice graph is total weight $(1, 17)$-choosable. This paper improves this result and proves that every nice graph is total weight $(1, 5)$-choosable.