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Discrete-time systems can be characterized by simple flat coordinates and their shifts.

The paper proves that linearization along trajectories preserves flatness in discrete-time systems.

We find a normal form for two-input flat discrete-time systems.

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…

New findings on flatness for specific driftless systems.

Defines new bi-flat structures from integrable systems and flat coordinates.

We prove that every flat nonlinear discrete-time system can be decomposed by coordinate transformations into a smaller-dimensional subsystem and an endogenous dynamic feedback. For flat continuous-time systems, no comparable result is available. The advantage of such a decomposition is that the complete system is flat …

Automatically identifies geometric flat outputs for robotic systems.

Extended flatness approach for discrete-time systems considers forward and backward shifts.

Paper presents a new triangular form for flat systems.

Flat subsets in Euclidean buildings are contained within apartments.

New method constructs geometric flat outputs for robotic systems using symmetry.

Extends E. Hopf's theorem to magnetic systems without conjugate points.

Study cylindrical symmetric Finsler metrics that are projectively flat.

Study integrable discretizations of cyclic systems with circular coordinate lines.

We prove that any conformally flat submanifold with flat normal bundle in a conformally flat Riemannian manifold is locally holonomic, that is, admits a principal coordinate system. As one of the consequences of this fact, it is shown that the Ribaucour transformation can be used to construct an associated large family…

The paper describes flat Hessian metrics on surfaces and their potentials.

The paper tackles exact linearization and control of flat discrete-time systems.

Let $σ$ be an involution of a real semi-simple Lie group $U$, $U_0$ the subgroup fixed by $σ$, and $U/U_0$ the corresponding symmetric space. Ferus and Pedit called a submanifold $M$ of a rank $r$ symmetric space $U/U_0$ a {\it curved flat} if $T_pM$ is tangent to an $r$-dimensional flat of $U/U_0$ at $p$ for each $p\i…

Paper solves tracking control for $(x,u)$-flat systems using classical states.

We study the anti-self-dual equation for non-diagonal SU(2)-invariant metrics and give an equivalent ninth-order system. This system reduce to a sixth-order system if the metric is in the conformal class of scalar-flat-Kaehler metric.

Electrostatic systems with specific tensors are locally conformally flat.

In this paper, we present a structurally flat triangular form which is based on the extended chained form. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for an affine input system with two inputs to be static feedback equivalent to the proposed triangular form, and thus a sufficient condition for an affine input syste…

Given a semi-Hamiltonian system, we construct an $F$-manifold with a connection satisfying a suitable compatibility condition with the product. We exemplify this procedure in the case of the so-called $ε$-system. The corresponding connection turns out to be flat, and the flat coordinates give rise to additional chains …

Test for linearizing 2-input systems with 2D feedback.

Study baryogenesis in conformally flat spacetimes using causal fermion systems.

Using canonical 1-parameter family of Hermitian connections on the tangent bundle, we provide invariant solutions to the Strominger system on complex Lie groups. Both flat and non-flat cases are discussed in detail.

In this paper we consider $(x,u)$-flat nonlinear control systems with two inputs, and show that every such system can be rendered static feedback linearizable by prolongations of a suitably chosen control. This result is not only of theoretical interest, but has also important implications on the design of flatness bas…

We consider conformally flat hypersurfaces in four dimensional space forms with their associated Guichard nets and Lamé's system of equations. We show that the symmetry group of the Lamé's system, satisfying Guichard condition, is given by translations and dilations in the independent variables and dilations in the dep…

We present about twenty conjectures, problems and questions about flat manifolds. Many of them build the bridges between the flat world and representation theory of the finite groups, hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems.

Two geometric tests for forward-flatness are shown to be dual.

This paper is devoted to the characterization of differentially flat nonlinear systems in implicit representation, after elimination of the input variables, in the differential geometric framework of manifolds of jets of infinite order. We extend the notion of Lie-Bäcklund equivalence, introduced in Fliess et al. (1999…

We show that any asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) metric which is obstruction-flat or extended obstruction-flat must be ALE of a certain optimal order. Moreover, our proof applies to very general elliptic systems and in any dimension $n \geq 3$. The proof is based on the technique of Cheeger-Tian for Ricci-flat m…

We define a system of ODE that gives Einstein 4-dimensional metrics. We found new Ricci-flat incomplete metric of cohomogeneity 1 in explicit formulas and study its characteristics.

We propose a general framework for constructing and describing infinite type flat surfaces of finite area. Using this method, we characterize the range of dynamical behaviors possible for the vertical translation flows on such flat surfaces. We prove a sufficient condition for ergodicity of this flow and apply the cond…

The notion of flat $λ$-connections as the interpolation of usual flat connections and Higgs fields was suggested by Deligne and further studied by Simpson. Mochizuki established the Kobayashi--Hitchin-type theorem for $λ$-flat bundles ($λ\neq 0$), which is called the Mochizuki correspondence. In this paper, on the one …

Asymptotically flat static causal fermion systems are introduced. Their total mass is defined as a limit of surface layer integrals which compare the measures describing the asymptotically flat spacetime and a vacuum spacetime near spatial infinity. Our definition does not involve any regularity assumptions; it even ap…

We explain that spectral networks are a unifying framework that incorporates both shear (Fock-Goncharov) and length-twist (Fenchel-Nielsen) coordinate systems on moduli spaces of flat SL(2,C) connections, in the following sense. Given a spectral network W on a punctured Riemann surface C, we explain the process of "abe…

It is demonstrated that hypersurfaces with a flat centroaffine metric are governed by a system of nonlinear PDEs known as the equations of associativity of 2-dimensional topological field theory.

We prove that the associativity equations of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories are very natural reductions of the fundamental nonlinear equations of the theory of submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces and give a natural class of potential flat torsionless submanifolds. We show that all potential flat…

A new dual test for forward-flatness simplifies computations.

The paper constructs flat metrics on orbifolds and resolutions.

New metrics solve complex equations on special 3D shapes.

In this paper we study maps (curved flats) into symmetric spaces which are tangent at each point to a flat of the symmetric space. Important examples of such maps arise from isometric immersions of space forms into space forms via their Gauss maps. Further examples are found in conformal geometry, e.g. the curved flats…

Various problems of geometry, topology and dynamical systems on surfaces as well as some questions concerning one-dimensional dynamical systems lead to the study of closed surfaces endowed with a flat metric with several cone-type singularities. Such flat surfaces are naturally organized into families which appear to b…

In modern recommender systems, both users and items are associated with rich side information, which can help understand users and items. Such information is typically heterogeneous and can be roughly categorized into flat and hierarchical side information. While side information has been proved to be valuable, the maj…

Combines higher complex structures with flat connections to link to $W$-algebras.

An explicit construction of surfaces with flat normal bundle in the Euclidean space (unit hypersphere) in terms of solutions of certain linear system is proposed. In the case of 3-space our formulae can be viewed as the direct Lie sphere analog of the generalized Weierstrass representation of surfaces in conformal geom…