arXiv research

Study on fractional curvature flow on unit sphere, extending previous work.

Study proves smooth solutions for fractional mean curvature flow within short time.

Paper proves short-term existence of fractional mean curvature flow.

Geodesic flows on surfaces have specific fractional-linear integrals related to constant cross-ratios.

In this paper we consider the evolution of sets by a fractional mean curvature flow. Our main result states that for any dimension $n > 2$, there exists an embedded surface in $\mathbb R^n$ evolving by fractional mean curvature flow, which developes a singularity before it can shrink to a point. When $n > 3$ this resul…

We show existence of homothetically shrinking solutions of the fractional mean curvature flow, whose boundary consists in a prescribed numbers of concentric spheres. We prove that all these solutions, except from the ball, are dynamically unstable.

In this paper we study smooth solutions to a fractional mean curvature flow equation. We establish a comparison principle and consequences such as uniqueness and finite extinction time for compact solutions. We also establish evolutions equations for fractional geometric quantities that yield preservation of certain qu…

We study fractional configurations in gravity theories and Lagrange mechanics. The approach is based on Caputo fractional derivative which gives zero for actions on constants. We elaborate fractional geometric models of physical interactions and we formulate a method of nonholonomic deformations to other types of fract…

Paper introduces new flows to find circle packings with specific curvature.

Smoothness of graphs evolving by fractional mean curvature is proven.

Fractional combinatorial flow improves surface conformal structures.

The paper introduces combinatorial Calabi flows to find hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary.

Discrete forms of the scalar, sectional and Ricci curvatures are constructed on simplicial piecewise flat triangulations of smooth manifolds, depending directly on the simplicial structure and a choice of dual tessellation. This is done by integrating over volumes which include appropriate samplings of hinges for each …

New method finds metrics on surfaces with prescribed curvatures using circle packings and surgery.

Methods from the geometry of nonholonomic manifolds and Lagrange-Finsler spaces are applied in fractional calculus with Caputo derivatives and for elaborating models of fractional gravity and fractional Lagrange mechanics. The geometric data for such models are encoded into (fractional) bi-Hamiltonian structures and as…

We formulate the fractional Ricci flow theory for (pseudo) Riemannian geometries enabled with nonholonomic distributions defining fractional integro-differential structures, for non-integer dimensions. There are constructed fractional analogs of Perelman's functionals and derived the corresponding fractional evolution …

The paper solves fractional combinatorial flows for prescribed hyperbolic bordered surfaces.

First variation of fractional $k$-dimensional measure for submanifolds

Local fractional derivatives affect Riemann curvature tensor to zero.

Paper introduces new fractional Dirac operator and Q-curvature.

Here a new notion of fractional length of a smooth curve, which depends on a parameter $σ$, is introduced that is analogous to the fractional perimeter functional of sets that has been studied in recent years. It is shown that in an appropriate limit the fractional length converges to the traditional notion of length u…

We introduce a fractional Yamabe flow involving nonlocal conformally invariant operators on the conformal infinity of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds, and show that on the conformal spheres $(\Sn, [g_{\Sn}])$, it converges to the standard sphere up to a Möbius diffeomorphism. This result allows us to obtain extinct…

Study finds non-uniqueness in sphere metrics with constant fractional curvature.

The study provides a criterion for fractional-linear integrals of geodesics on surfaces.

The paper extends Heintze-Karcher inequalities to fractional Q-curvature.

Study optimal partitions on spheres using fractional Q-curvature and variational methods.

In this paper, we prove several Poincaré inequalities of fractional type on conformally flat manifolds with finite total Q-curvature. This shows a new aspect of the $Q$-curvature on noncompact complete manifolds.

In this thesis, we consider the knot energy "integral Menger curvature" which is the triple integral over the inverse of the classic circumradius of three distinct points on the given knot to the power $p\in [2,\infty)$. We prove the existence of the first variation for a subset of a certain fractional Sobolev space if…

Study extends convexity in curved spaces using fractional integrals.

Proposes a new nonlocal curvature tensor concept.

Study examines surfaces with bounded fractional mean curvature, proving control over local parametrization.

In this paper the fractional Q-curvature problem on three dimensional CR sphere is considered. By using the critical points theory at infinity, an existence result is obtained.

Let $(X, g^+)$ be an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold and $(M, [\hat{h}])$ its conformal infinity. Our primary aim in this paper is to introduce the prescribed fractional scalar curvature problem on $M$ and provide solutions under various geometric conditions on $X$ and $M$. We also obtain the existence results for t…

We study hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with constant nonlocal (or fractional) mean curvature. This is the equation associated to critical points of the fractional perimeter functional under a volume constraint. We establish the existence of a smooth branch of periodic cylinders in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, all of th…

The study examines order flow in financial markets using fractional Lévy stable motion.

We are concerned with hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with constant nonlocal (or fractional) mean curvature. This is the equation associated to critical points of the fractional perimeter under a volume constraint. Our results are twofold. First we prove the nonlocal analogue of the Alexandrov result characterizing sph…

The fractional Yamabe problem, proposed by González-Qing (2013, Anal. PDE) is a geometric question which concerns the existence of metrics with constant fractional scalar curvature. It extends the phenomena which were discovered in the classical Yamabe problem and the boundary Yamabe problem to the realm of nonlocal co…

The purpose of this article is to find a family of curves parametrized by arc length and that depend on an angular function and an intrinsic fraction function, which is defined as the quotient between torsion and curvature. We find for this family of curves explicit formulas of curvature, torsion and geodetic curvature…

This paper constructs metrics with constant fractional higher order curvature on punctured spheres.

We describe a new interpretation of the fractional GJMS operators as generalized Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators associated to weighted GJMS operators on naturally associated smooth metric measure spaces. This gives a geometric interpretation of the Caffarelli--Silvestre extension for $(-Δ)^γ$ when $γ\in(0,1)$, and both…

Given for instance a finite volume negatively curved Riemannian manifold $M$, we give a precise relation between the logarithmic growth rates of the excursions into cusps neighborhoods of the strong unstable leaves of negatively recurrent unit vectors of $M$ and their linear divergence rates under the geodesic flow. As…

Study shows volumes of knot complements are bounded by linear functions of geodesic periods.

We present a construction of complete self-dual Einstein metrics of negative scalar curvature on an uncountable family of manifolds of infinite topological type, which are enumerated by continued fraction expansions of irrational numbers. These manifolds may be regarded as limits of the resolutions of cyclic quotient s…

In this paper we study the typical speed of a generic earthquake trajectory leaving compact sets in the moduli space of the once-punctured torus. Mirzakhani showed that the earthquake flow is measurably equivalent to the horocyclic flow, which has been studied extensively. Our main result shows that the earthquake flow…

We consider the fractional Nirenberg problem on the standard sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ with $n\geq 4$. Using the theory of critical points at infinity, we establish an Euler-Hopf type formula and obtain some existence results for curvature satisfying assumptions of Bahri-Coron type.

In this paper, the fractional order curvature equation $(-Δ)^γu = (1 + \varepsilon K(x))u^{\frac{N + 2γ}{N - 2γ}}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ is considered. Assuming $K(x)$ has two critical points satisfying certain local conditions, we prove the existence of two-peak solutions.

Study classifies metrics on a twice-punctured sphere, proving Delaunay metrics are complete.

Study vortex flows on Riemann surfaces, proving dominated splitting and Anosov properties.