We study the manifold of all Riemannian metrics over a closed, finite-dimensional manifold. In particular, we investigate the topology on the manifold of metrics induced by the distance function of the L^2 Riemannian metric - so called because it induces an L^2 topology on each tangent space. It turns out that this top…
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Study on the topology of leaves in singular Riemannian foliations.
problem Characterizing the topology of leaves in singular Riemannian foliations.
method Analyzing the fundamental groups and using nilpotent spaces.
result Leaves of singular Riemannian foliations are finitely covered by nilpotent spaces when is simply connected.
Sampling random points can reveal submanifold topology.
problem Estimating the topology of submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds.
method Sampling random points in a neighborhood of the submanifold.
result Topology of the submanifold can be recovered with high confidence.
Study distance functions on manifolds linking geometry to topology.
problem Understanding the relationship between curvature and topology on manifolds.
method Analyzing distance functions and their connection to manifold geometry.
result Alternative proofs of theorems linking curvature and topology.
Develops calculus on Wasserstein spaces for Riemannian manifolds.
problem Characterizing and understanding the geometry of Wasserstein spaces.
method Intrinsic formalism for topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of Wasserstein spaces.
result Wasserstein spaces of closed manifolds are geodesically convex.
Structure of Submetriesmath.DG
Study the structure of equidistant decompositions in manifolds.
problem Geometric and topological structure of equidistant decompositions.
method Investigation of Riemannian manifolds.
result Detailed understanding of equidistant decompositions.
Study topological invariants of complexes for Riemannian manifolds.
problem Understanding topological properties of Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyzing Betti numbers and Euler characteristic of Vietoris-Rips and Čech complexes.
result Betti curve converges to manifold's Betti number within a scale parameter interval.
The article consists of a survey on analytic and topological torsion. Analytic torsion is defined in terms of the spectrum of the analytic Laplace operator on a Riemannian manifold, whereas topological torsion is defined in terms of a triangulation. The celebrated theorem of Cheeger and Müller identifies these two noti…
Schwarzschild 3-manifold stability proven for 3D Penrose inequality.
problem Stability of the Schwarzschild 3-manifold in the context of the 3D Riemannian Penrose inequality.
method Pointed measured Gromov-Hausdorff topology, negligible domains and boundary area perturbations.
result Schwarzschild 3-manifold stability proven for 3D Penrose inequality.
We show that smooth isoperimetric profiles are exceptional for real analytic Riemannian manifolds. For instance, under some extra assumption, this can happen only on topological spheres.
The study of spectral-tightness in Riemannian manifolds and its topological implications.
problem Understanding the spectral properties of Riemannian manifolds and their coverings.
method Analyzing the fundamental group and the Euclidean local de Rham factor to characterize spectral-tightness.
result Spectral-tightness is a topological property of the fundamental group, and it can be characterized by the dimension of the Euclidean local de Rham factor.
We prove several facts about the Yamabe constant of Riemannian metrics on general noncompact manifolds and about S. Kim's closely related "Yamabe constant at infinity". In particular we show that the Yamabe constant depends continuously on the Riemannian metric with respect to the fine C^2-topology, and that the Yamabe…
Measuring wave sources uniquely identifies manifold properties.
problem Determining Riemannian manifold structure from wave observations.
method Semilinear wave equation measurements at a single point.
result Topological, differential, and geometric structure can be inferred.
Compactness theorem for Riemannian manifolds with volume and curvature bounds.
problem Investigating the regularity of limit spaces of Riemannian manifolds.
method Local volume growth condition, compactness theorem, different convergence notion.
result Compactness theorem for Riemannian manifolds with curvature bounds and volume growth assumption.
The paper explores metrics on tree moduli spaces and a new topological group.
problem Continuous metrics on tree moduli spaces.
method Proposes and analyzes continuous piecewise-smooth metrics.
result Observes a new abelian topological group structure.
Let (T^2, g) be a two-dimensional Riemannian torus. In this paper we prove that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow restricted to the set of initial conditions of minimal geodesics vanishes, independent of the choice of the Riemannian metric.
Study sub-Riemannian surfaces in contact manifolds, proving a Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
problem Proving a Gauss-Bonnet theorem for sub-Riemannian surfaces in contact manifolds.
method Using a family of taming Riemannian metrics, the theorem is derived in the limit.
result Recover topological information of surfaces from geometry around characteristic set.
Entropy measures geodesic flow complexity.
problem Measuring complexity of geodesic flows on manifolds.
method Introduced barcode entropy to measure exponential growth rate of not-too-short bars in Morse-theoretic barcodes.
result Barcode entropy bounds topological entropy and vice versa.
Sharp pinching conditions restrict the geometry and topology of submanifolds.
problem Understanding submanifolds under pinching conditions in arbitrary Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyzing submanifolds with pinching conditions involving second fundamental form and mean curvature.
result The pinching condition imposes strong geometric and topological restrictions on submanifolds.
In this paper we find new examples of Riemannian manifolds with outermost apparent horizons with nonspherical topology, in dimensions four and above. More precisely, for any , we construct asymptotically flat, scalar flat Riemannian manifolds containing smooth outermost minimal hypersurfaces with topology $S^n…
New obstruction found for embedding Riemannian manifolds into Euclidean spaces.
problem Embedding Riemannian manifolds into Euclidean spaces with specific conditions.
method Motivated by incompressible Euler equations, a dynamical-topological obstruction is derived.
result Nontrivial first real homology and trivial center of fundamental group imply embedding violation.
It is commonly known that in Riemannian and sub-Riemannian Geometry, the metric tensor on a manifold defines a distance function. In Lorentzian Geometry, instead of a distance function it provides causal relations and the Lorentzian time-separation function. Both lead to the definition of the Alexandrov topology, which…
Riemannian Metric Bundlemath.DG
Study Riemannian metric bundles and their connections to K-theory.
problem Understanding geometry and topology of manifolds with Riemannian metrics.
method Develop rigorous theory of Riemannian metric bundles and apply to K-theory.
result Contribute to deeper understanding of manifold geometry and topology.
Generalized Ricci surfacesmath.DG
The study explores surfaces with curvature satisfying a specific relation, leading to isometric immersions and topological obstructions.
problem Curvature relations on smooth Riemannian surfaces and their geometric implications.
method Properties of log-harmonic functions and isometric immersions theorems.
result Characterization of surfaces that locally admit minimal isometric immersions into constant curvature manifolds.
New Riemannian GNNs reduce over-squashing in graphs with negative curvature.
problem Over-squashing in Riemannian graph neural networks.
method Generalization of Hyperbolic GNNs to Riemannian manifolds of variable curvature.
result Bounds on sensitivity of node features in Riemannian GNNs as layers increase.
A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of harmonic forms is again harmonic, which implies in the compact case that the manifold is topologically formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. A manifold admitting a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature is conjectured to …
We show that a Riemannian foliation on a topological -sphere has leaf dimension 1 or 3 unless n=15 and the Riemannian foliation is given by the fibers of a Riemannian submersion to an 8-dimensional sphere. This allows us to classify Riemannian foliations on round spheres up to metric congruence.
New examples of degenerating metrics on R^4 found.
problem Degenerating Poincaré-Einstein metrics on R^4.
method Riemannian ansatz of Debever and Deimaniański, constructing families.
result Continuous families of metrics with cusps and unexpected degenerations.
We consider the problem of robot motion planning in an oriented Riemannian manifold as a topological motion planning problem in its oriented frame bundle. For this purpose, we study the topological complexity of oriented frame bundles, derive an upper bound for this invariant and certain lower bounds from cup length co…
Study of Lagrangian submanifolds with Riemannian bounds and their metric properties.
problem Understanding the geometry and topology of Lagrangian submanifolds with Riemannian constraints.
method Investigation of metric properties and symplectic structures on spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds with uniform Riemannian bounds.
result There are at most countably many Hamiltonian isotopy classes of exact Lagrangian submanifolds in a Liouville manifold.
Study finds topological restrictions on 4-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.
problem Understanding which 4-manifolds can have metrics with uniformly positive scalar curvature.
method Topological obstructions and metric constructions on specific 4-manifolds.
result Existence of uncountably many exotic 's without such metrics and topological uniqueness of certain metrics.
Survey on geometry and topology of maximal antipodal sets.
problem Maximal antipodal sets on Riemannian manifolds.
method Comprehensive survey of existing research.
result Relation to various mathematical areas.
We study the geometry and topology of Riemannian 3-orbifolds which are locally volume collapsed with respect to a curvature scale. We show that a sufficiently collapsed closed 3-orbifold without bad 2-suborbifolds either admits a metric of nonnegative sectional curvature or satisfies Thurston's Geometrization Conjectur…
The main purpose of this note is to provide a topological approach to defining additive functions on Riemannian co-compact normal coverings.
New rigidity results for manifolds with maximal symmetry rank and positive intermediate Ricci curvature.
problem Understanding the structure of manifolds with maximal symmetry rank and positive intermediate Ricci curvature.
method Recovering stronger topological rigidity results using higher intermediate Ricci curvatures and nontrivial fundamental groups.
result Stronger topological rigidity results for manifolds with maximal symmetry rank and positive intermediate Ricci curvature.
The paper proves bounds on curvature and injectivity radius for convex sums of Riemannian metrics.
problem Understanding the geometry of convex sums of Riemannian metrics.
method Quantitative inverse function theorem and Riemannian geometry techniques.
result Injectivity radii of convex sums have uniform lower bounds.
This is an expositiry article on collapsing theory in Riemannian geometry written for the Modern Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (MEMPhys). We focus on describing the geometric and topological structure of collapsed/non-collapsed regions in Riemannian manifold under various curvature assumptions. Numerous applicat…
New topological obstructions found for elliptic and quasiregularly elliptic manifolds.
problem Connection between ellipticity and quasiregular ellipticity.
method Proved new topological obstructions.
result Closed manifolds of both types must have virtually abelian fundamental group.
Riemannian submersions can preserve positive intermediate Ricci curvature, but not necessarily.
problem Understanding the conditions under which Riemannian submersions preserve positive intermediate Ricci curvature.
method Analyzing the Gray--O'Neill Horizontal curvature equation and constructing perturbations of metrics.
result Riemannian submersions that do not preserve positive Ricci curvature are dense in the -topology.
Rigging technique introduced in \cite{bi0} is a convenient way to address the study of null hypersurfaces. It offers in addition the extra benefit of inducing a Riemannian structure on the null hypersurface which is used to study geometric and topological properties on it. In this paper we develop this technique showin…
Gravitational Solitons and Complete Ricci Flat Riemannian Manifolds of Infinite Topological Typemath.DG
New gravitational solitons and infinite topological manifolds found.
problem Finding new gravitational solitons and Riemannian manifolds.
method Space-periodic solutions of Einstein equations, quotients, Wick rotation.
result Complete Ricci flat Riemannian manifolds of infinite topological type.
We define enlargeable length-structures on closed topological manifolds and then show that the connected sum of a closed -manifold with an enlargeable Riemannian length-structure with an arbitrary closed smooth manifold carries no Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature. We show that closed smooth manifold…
Restrictions are obtained on the topology of a compact divergence-free null hypersurface in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose Ricci tensor is zero or satisfies some weaker conditions. This is done by showing that each null hypersurface of this type can be used to construct a family of three-dimensional Riema…
We show how to define a canonical Riemannian metric on a "dessin d'enfants' drawn on a topological surface. This gives a possible explanation of a claim of A. Grothendieck.
We concerns here with the continuity on the geometry of the second Riemannian L^p-Sobolev best constant B_0(p,g) associated to the AB program. Precisely, for 1 <= p <= 2, we prove that B_0(p,g) depends continuously on g in the C^2-topology. Moreover, this topology is sharp for p = 2. From this discussion, we deduce som…
Causal fermion systems and Riemannian fermion systems are proposed as a framework for describing non-smooth geometries. In particular, this framework provides a setting for spinors on singular spaces. The underlying topological structures are introduced and analyzed. The connection to the spin condition in differential…
The study classifies parallel mean curvature spheres in a sphere-hyperbolic product space.
problem Understanding surfaces with parallel mean curvature in a specific Riemannian product space.
method Analyzing the holomorphic quadratic differential and topological constraints.
result Classification of all parallel mean curvature spheres with vanishing differential.
Special metrics and Trialitymath.DG
We investigate a new 8-dimensional Riemannian geometry defined by a generic closed and coclosed 3-form with stabiliser PSU(3), and which arises as a critical point of Hitchin's variational principle. We give a Riemannian characterisation of this structure in terms of invariant spinor-valued 1-forms, which are harmonic …