@article {Kozhasov2019, title = {On the Number of Flats Tangent to Convex Hypersurfaces in Random Position}, journal = {Discrete \& Computational Geometry}, year = {2019}, month = {Mar}, issn = {1432-0444}, doi = {10.1007/s00454-019-00067-0}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-019-00067-0}, author = {Khazhgali Kozhasov and Antonio Lerario} } @article {Agrachev2017, title = {Homotopically invisible singular curves}, journal = {Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations}, volume = {56}, number = {4}, year = {2017}, month = {Jul}, pages = {105}, issn = {1432-0835}, doi = {10.1007/s00526-017-1203-z}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-017-1203-z}, author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Francesco Boarotto and Antonio Lerario} } @article {boarotto2017homotopy, title = {Homotopy properties of horizontal path spaces and a theorem of Serre in subriemannian geometry}, journal = {Communications in Analysis and Geometry}, volume = {25}, number = {2}, year = {2017}, pages = {269{\textendash}301}, publisher = {International Press of Boston}, doi = {10.4310/CAG.2017.v25.n2.a1}, author = {Francesco Boarotto and Antonio Lerario} } @article {1711.08253, title = {Random spectrahedra}, year = {2017}, author = {Paul Breiding and Khazhgali Kozhasov and Antonio Lerario} } @article {agrachev2015geodesics, title = {Geodesics and horizontal-path spaces in Carnot groups}, journal = {Geometry \& Topology}, volume = {19}, number = {3}, year = {2015}, pages = {1569{\textendash}1630}, publisher = {Mathematical Sciences Publishers}, abstract = {

We study properties of the space of horizontal paths joining the origin with a vertical point on a generic two-step Carnot group. The energy is a Morse-Bott functional on paths and its critical points (sub-Riemannian geodesics) appear in families (compact critical manifolds) with controlled topology. We study the asymptotic of the number of critical manifolds as the energy grows. The topology of the horizontal-path space is also investigated, and we find asymptotic results for the total Betti number of the sublevels of the energy as it goes to infinity. We interpret these results as local invariants of the sub-Riemannian structure.

}, doi = {10.2140/gt.2015.19.1569}, author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Alessandro Gentile and Antonio Lerario} } @article {2012, title = {Convex pencils of real quadratic forms}, journal = {Discrete and Computational Geometry, Volume 48, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 1025-1047}, number = {arXiv:1106.4678v3;}, year = {2012}, note = {Updated version to be published in DCG ; was published in : Discrete and Computational Geometry, Volume 48, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 1025-1047}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We study the topology of the set X of the solutions of a system of two quadratic inequalities in the real projective space RP^n (e.g. X is the intersection of two real quadrics). We give explicit formulae for its Betti numbers and for those of its double cover in the sphere S^n; we also give similar formulae for level sets of homogeneous quadratic maps to the plane. We discuss some applications of these results, especially in classical convexity theory. We prove the sharp bound b(X)\leq 2n for the total Betti number of X; we show that for odd n this bound is attained only by a singular X. In the nondegenerate case we also prove the bound on each specific Betti number b_k(X)\leq 2(k+2).}, doi = {10.1007/s00454-012-9460-2}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7099}, author = {Antonio Lerario} } @article {2012, title = {Systems of Quadratic Inequalities}, journal = {Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 105, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 622-660}, number = {arXiv:1012.5731;}, year = {2012}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {We present a spectral sequence which efficiently computes Betti numbers of a closed semi-algebraic subset of RP^n defined by a system of quadratic inequalities and the image of the homology homomorphism induced by the inclusion of this subset in RP^n. We do not restrict ourselves to the term E_2 of the spectral sequence and give a simple explicit formula for the differential d_2.}, doi = {DOI: 10.1112/plms/pds010}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7072}, author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Antonio Lerario} } @mastersthesis {2011, title = {Homology invariants of quadratic maps}, year = {2011}, school = {SISSA}, abstract = {Given a real projective algebraic set X we could hope that the equations describing it can give some information on its topology, e.g. on the number of its connected components. Unfortunately in the general case this hope is too vague and there is no direct way to extract such information from the algebraic description of X: Even the problem to decide whether X is empty or not is far from an easy visualization and requires some complicated algebraic machinery. A fi rst step observation is that as long as we are interested only in the topology of X, we can replace, using some Veronese embedding, the original ambient space with a much bigger RPn and assume that X is cut by quadratic equations. The price for this is the increase of the number of equations de ning our set; the advantage is that quadratic polynomials are easier to handle and our hope becomes more concrete...}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6245}, author = {Antonio Lerario} }