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Publications and source records attributed to Ezra Nance.
We develop techniques for solving the relative isoperimetric problem on polygonal domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$, with special attention paid to corners. As an application, we solve the relative isoperimetric problem for a square with a square corner removed.
In this work we take a deep dive into the cone of copositive $3 \times 3$ matrices. In doing so we visualize the cone, make geometric observations about it, and prove them. We then use these observations to parametrize the set. In the process we run into issues with surjectivity, and overcome them by resolving singularities and slightly shifting our original approach. We do all of this to ultimately arrive at a novel parametrization of the $3 \times 3$ copositive matrix cone which is surjective and almost injective, which we call almost bijective.
In this work we develop a novel recursive method for parametrizing the cone of copositive univariate polynomials of any arbitrary degree $d$. This parametrization is surjective, almost injective, and has the easily described domain of $(\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0})^d$.
A Riemannian manifold is said to be almost positively curved if the sets of points for which all $2$-planes have positive sectional curvature is open and dense. We show that the Grassmannian of oriented $2$-planes in $\mathbb{R}^7$ admits a metric of almost positive curvature, giving the first example of an almost positively curved metric on an irreducible compact symmetric space of rank greater than $1$. The construction and verification rely on the Lie group $\mathbf{G}_2$ and the octonions, so do not obviously generalize to any other Grassmannians.