We exhibit several transformations of surfaces in R^4. First, one that takes a flat surface and gets a surface with flat normal bundle; then, one that takes a surface with flat normal bundle and gets a flat surface; finally, a one-parameter family of transformations on a flat surface with flat normal bundle and gives a…
We define a partition of the space of projectively flat metrics in three classes according to the sign of the Chern scalar curvature; we prove that the class of negative projectively flat metrics is empty, and that the class of positive projectively flat metrics consists precisely of locally conformally flat-Kähler met…
New homogeneous manifolds with invariant Bismut Ricci flat connections are constructed.
problem Constructing homogeneous manifolds with invariant Bismut Ricci flat connections.
method Classification and construction of homogeneous spaces with specific properties.
result Examples of compact homogeneous Riemannian manifolds with invariant Bismut Ricci flat connections are provided.
Defines new bi-flat structures from integrable systems and flat coordinates.
problem Creating new bi-flat structures from integrable systems.
method Combining Frölicher-Nijenhuis bicomplex with Lauricella bi-flat structures.
result Defines multi-parameter families of Lauricella bi-flat structures.
We find a normal form for two-input flat discrete-time systems.
problem No comparable normal form exists for flat continuous-time systems.
method State- and input transformations to achieve a triangular structure.
result A systematic parameterization of system variables by the flat output and its shifts.
This paper deals essentially with affine or projective transformations of Lie groups endowed with a flat left invariant affine or projective structure. These groups are called flat affine or flat projective Lie groups. Our main results determine Lie groups admitting flat bi-invariant affine or projective structures. Th…
The paper proves that linearization along trajectories preserves flatness in discrete-time systems.
problem The relation between nonlinear and linear time-varying systems.
method Linearization along trajectories of a flat discrete-time system.
result The linearized system is flat, and a flat output can be derived.
The Yamabe flow on flat manifolds converges to a scalar flat metric.
problem Analyzing the convergence of Yamabe flow on asymptotically flat manifolds.
method Yamabe flow starting from an asymptotically flat manifold, convergence analysis.
result The flow converges to an asymptotically flat, scalar flat metric under certain conditions.
Study of flat metrics on orbifolds and their moduli spaces.
problem Understanding flat metrics on orbifolds and their moduli spaces.
method Analysis of Teichmüller spaces and mapping class groups.
result Moduli space of flat metrics on orbifolds is a very good orbifold under certain conditions.
Study of symplectically flat connections and their functionals on smooth manifolds.
problem Understanding symplectically flat connections and their functionals on smooth manifolds.
method Extend symplectically flat connections to ζ-flat connections, introduce functionals with zeroes as symplectically flat connections, study critical points of these functionals, describe characteristic classes of ζ-flat bundles. result Novel geometric flows and characteristic classes of ζ-flat bundles are described. Study links' flat-virtual diagrams to create link invariants.
problem Equivalence and invariants of flat-virtual diagrams.
method Maps from links in thickened surfaces to flat-virtual links.
result Investigation of flat-virtual diagrams' equivalence and invariants.
Investigate AR-Finsler metrics for local dual flatness and projective flatness.
problem Locally dually and projectively flat AR-Finsler metrics
method Derive necessary and sufficient conditions and a compatibility relation.
result Establish a rigidity result for AR-Finsler metrics.
Study flat connections on Courant algebroids using Lie groups.
problem Flatness conditions on Courant algebroids.
method Metric generalized connections, flatness condition analysis.
result Existence of compact simple Lie groups as building blocks for flat transitive Courant algebroids.
New flat surfaces found in 3D sphere space.
problem Constructing flat surfaces in 3D sphere.
method Using Ribaucour transformations and flat torus theory.
result Families of complete flat surfaces in S3 determined by parameters. We call the Lie algebra of a Lie group with a left invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metric pseudo-Riemannian flat Lie algebra. We give a new proof of a classical result of Milnor on Riemannian flat Lie algebras. We reduce the study of Lorentzian flat Lie algebras to those with trivial center or those with degenerate ce…
FP-BMA improves generalization by encouraging flat posteriors in Bayesian Model Averaging.
problem Lack of flat posterior in approximate Bayesian inference methods hinders effective Bayesian Model Averaging.
method Proposes Flat Posterior-aware Bayesian Model Averaging (FP-BMA) and Flat Posterior-aware Bayesian Transfer Learning schemes.
result FP-BMA successfully captures flat posteriors, improving generalization performance.
Flat plumbing basket surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. These flat plumbing basket surface can be presented by a sequential presentation known as flat plumbing basket code first found by Furihata, Hirasawa and Kobayashi. The minimum number of flat plumbings to obtain…
A Lorentzian flat Lie group is a Lie group G with a flat left invariant metric μ with signature (1,n−1)=(−,+,…,+). The Lie algebra g=TeG of G endowed with ⟨,⟩=μ(e) is called flat Lorentzian Lie algebra. It is known that the metric of a flat Lorentzian Lie group is geodesical…
We provide an algebraic description of the Teichmüller space and moduli space of flat metrics on a closed manifold or orbifold and study its boundary, which consists of (isometry classes of) flat orbifolds to which the original object may collapse. It is also shown that every closed flat orbifold can be obtained by col…
Flat Ricci-flat manifolds with bounded gradient of Green function are flat.
problem Understanding the rigidity of Ricci-flat manifolds with specific curvature decay.
method Analyzing the gradient of the Green function and using curvature decay conditions.
result Flat Ricci-flat manifolds with bounded gradient of Green function are flat.
We prove that the normal metric contact pairs with orthogonal characteristic foliations, which are either Bochner flat or locally conformally flat, are locally isometric to the Hopf manifolds. As a corollary we obtain the classification of locally conformally flat and Bochner-flat non-Kähler Vaisman manifolds.
Connected sum affects crossing numbers of flat virtual knots.
problem Understanding how connected sum impacts the crossing numbers of flat virtual knots.
method Analyzing minimal crossing diagrams and using super-additivity properties.
result Crossing number of flat virtual knots is super-additive under connected sum.
This paper classifies fibrations of flat orbifolds, advancing flat 4-manifold classification.
problem Classifying fibrations of compact flat orbifolds.
method Developed theory for classifying fibrations up to affine equivalence.
result Classified fibrations of compact flat 2-orbifolds.
This paper has several goals. The first idea is to study the geometric PDEs of connection-flatness, curvature-flatness, Ricci-flatness, scalar curvature-flatness in a modern and rigorous way. Although the idea is not new, our main Theorems about flatness introduce a different point of view in Differential Geometry. The…
Almost-flat manifolds were defined by Gromov as a natural generalisation of flat manifolds and as such share many of their properties. Similarly to flat manifolds, it turns out that the existence of a spin structure on an almost-flat manifold is determined by the canonical orthogonal representation of its fundamental g…
Classifies flat knots up to 8 crossings using Lyndon words.
problem Classifying flat knots up to a certain number of crossings.
method Using matchings on Lyndon words and various knot invariants.
result Distinguished all flat knots up to 7 crossings except for five pairs.
Study describes flat metric moduli spaces on 4D manifolds.
problem Understanding flat metrics on 4D closed manifolds.
method Algebraic and topological description of moduli spaces.
result Algebraic and topological description of moduli spaces of flat metrics.
Short introduction to discrete flat fronts in hyperbolic space with a Weierstrass representation proof.
problem Understanding discrete flat fronts in hyperbolic space.
method Proving a Weierstrass representation for discrete flat fronts.
result Any discrete flat front in the mixed area sense admits a Weierstrass representation.
Detect spacetime curvature with event causality measurements.
problem Detecting spacetime curvature without rulers and clocks.
method Prove spacetime non-flatness through causal relations.
result Sixteen measurements verify non-flatness of non-conformally flat spacetimes.
The paper provides uniform length estimates for trajectories on flat cone surfaces.
problem Estimating the length of trajectories on flat cone surfaces.
method Using self-intersection numbers and constants depending only on the flat metric, the paper focuses on convex flat cone spheres with a positive curvature gap and a fixed number of singularities.
result Uniform two-sided estimates for trajectory lengths on convex flat cone spheres are obtained.
We consider two cases of the asymptotically flat scalar-flat Yamabe problem on a non-compact manifold with boundary, in dimension n≥3. First, following arguments of Cantor and Brill in the compact case, we show that given an asymptotically flat metric g, there is a conformally equivalent asymptotically flat scal…
We propose two conjectures about Ricci-flat metrics: Conjecture 1: A Ricci-flat projectively induced metric is flat. Conjecture 2: A Ricci-flat metric on an n-dimensional complex manifold such that the an+1 coefficient of the TYZ expansion vanishes is flat. We verify Conjecture 1 (see Theorem 1.1) under the assu…
We construct a compact nonpositively curved squared 2-complex whose universal cover contains a flat plane that is not the limit of periodic flat planes.
New findings on flatness for specific driftless systems.
problem Determining flatness for driftless systems with m inputs and 2m or 2m-1 states.
method Using pure prolongation, the paper presents new sufficient conditions for flatness.
result The conditions proposed broaden the class of recognized flat systems.
Discrete-time systems can be characterized by simple flat coordinates and their shifts.
problem Characterizing flatness of discrete-time systems.
method Developed a map from flat coordinates and their shifts to system state and input, fulfilling system equations identically.
result Derived necessary conditions for a system to be flat, without requiring differential geometry methods.
Automatically identifies geometric flat outputs for robotic systems.
problem Lack of systematic and practical means to identify flat outputs for arbitrary robotic systems.
method Casts the search for a globally valid, equivariant flat output as an optimization problem using Riemannian geometry, Lie group theory, and differential forms.
result Approximate transcription of continuum formulation to a quadratic program achieves precise agreement with known closed-form flat outputs.
It is classically known that complete flat surfaces in Euclidean 3-space are cylinders over space curves. This implies that the study of global behaviour of flat surfaces requires the study of singular points as well. If a flat surface f admits singularities but its Gauss map ν can be smoothly extended across the s…
The notion of flat minima has played a key role in the generalization studies of deep learning models. However, existing definitions of the flatness are known to be sensitive to the rescaling of parameters. The issue suggests that the previous definitions of the flatness might not be a good measure of generalization, b…
Criterion for flat circle bundles using intrinsically harmonic forms.
problem Characterizing flat circle bundles.
method Criterion based on intrinsic harmonicity of a specific form.
result Flatness of a principal circle bundle is equivalent to intrinsic harmonicity of a certain form.
Curved flats linked to pairs of Lie applicable surfaces.
problem Understanding curved flats in Lie sphere geometry.
method One-to-one correspondence with pairs of Demoulin families of Lie applicable surfaces via Darboux transformation.
result Curved flats correspond to specific Lie applicable surface pairs.
The study of flat symplectic Lie algebras and groups.
problem Characterizing and understanding flat symplectic Lie algebras and groups.
method Analyzing the derived ideal, curvature, and double extension process.
result Every flat symplectic Lie algebra is obtained by a sequence of double extensions starting from the trivial algebra.
The study classifies flat solvmanifolds and finds G2-structures on them.
problem Classifying and finding G2-structures on flat solvmanifolds. method Classification of flat splittable solvmanifolds and search for compatible G2-structures. result Examples of compact flat manifolds with specific G2-structures. Flat stable minimal hypersurfaces in 5D are always flat.
problem Characterizing stable minimal hypersurfaces in higher dimensions.
method Analyzing properties of stable minimal hypersurfaces in \(\mathbf{R}^5\).
result Complete, two-sided stable minimal hypersurfaces in \(\mathbf{R}^5\) are flat.
Origami creates flat torus models of any size.
problem Creating flat torus models of any size.
method Explicit origami folding instructions.
result Flat torus models of any size created.
The paper shows how to create scalar flat metrics with very large ADM mass.
problem Understanding the ADM mass of scalar flat Kähler ALE spaces.
method Blowing up points in ALE spaces to increase ADM mass.
result It is possible to produce scalar flat metrics with arbitrarily large ADM mass.
Study connects G2-structures to flat connections on compact 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding moduli spaces of G2-structures and flat connections. method Equivalence between moduli spaces of G2-structures and flat connections on compact 3-manifolds. result Equivalence between moduli spaces of G2-structures and flat connections on compact 3-manifolds. The paper classifies fibrations of 3-dimensional flat orbifolds.
problem Classifying fibrations of compact flat 3-orbifolds.
method Developed a theory for classifying fibrations of compact flat n-orbifolds, applying it to 3-orbifolds. result All geometric fibrations of compact, connected, flat 3-orbifolds, over a 1-orbifold, up to affine equivalence.
Un sous-système de dimension différentielle au plus 2 d'une extension plate est plate. Si un tel système plat est stationnaire, il admet des sorties plates indépendantes du temps. A subsystem of a flat system of differential dimension at most 2 is flat. Furthermore, if such a flat system is stationary, we show that the…