arXiv research

Study shows compact Lorentz manifolds can't have closed geodesics.

Hierarchical geodesic model for analyzing shapes on manifolds.

Paper analyzes convergence of proximal algorithm in metric spaces without geodesic convexity.

This paper develops GPCA for probability distributions using Otto-Wasserstein geometry.

New cutoff phenomenon found for geodesic paths on hyperbolic manifolds.

Dimensionality reduction on Riemannian manifolds is challenging due to the complex nonlinear data structures. While probabilistic principal geodesic analysis~(PPGA) has been proposed to generalize conventional principal component analysis (PCA) onto manifolds, its effectiveness is limited to data with a single modality…

Geodesic X-ray transform proves injective for smooth one-forms on gas giant manifolds.

The paper analyzes symmetries of Vaidya-Bonner geodesics.

Study counts geodesics on modular surface, linking to necklace counting.

We provide an easy approach to the geodesic distance on the general linear group GL(n) for left-invariant Riemannian metrics which are also right-O(n)-invariant. The parametrization of geodesic curves and the global existence of length minimizing geodesics are deduced using simple methods based on the calculus of varia…

A prime geodesic theorem is proven for singular geodesics in quotients of SL(4). This is a case where regularity assumptions of previous papers fail. As a consequence, the analysis becomes much more involved. For applications in number theory (class number asymptotics) it is, however, necessary to consider this case, t…

Geodesic convexity generalizes the notion of (vector space) convexity to nonlinear metric spaces. But unlike convex optimization, geodesically convex (g-convex) optimization is much less developed. In this paper we contribute to the understanding of g-convex optimization by developing iteration complexity analysis for …

The paper studies geodesics and isoparametric functions on Finsler spheres.

This article contains a detailed study, in the toric case, of the test configuration geodesic rays defined by Phong-Sturm. We show that the `Bergman approximations' of Phong-Sturm converge in C^1 to the geodesic ray and that the geodesic ray itself is C^{1,1} and no better. The \kahler metrics associated to the geodesi…

This paper deals with various topics in analysis on hyperbolic spaces. It surveys some recent progress in non-Euclidean Fourier Analysis and proves some new results for the geodesic Radon transform on hyperbolic spaces.

For any toric automorphism with only real eigenvalues a Riemannian metric with an integrable geodesic flow on the suspension of this automorphism is constructed. A qualitative analysis of such a flow on a three-solvmanifold constructed by the authors in math.DG/9905078 is done. This flow is an example of the geodesic f…

Using geodesic length functions, we define a natural family of real codimension 1 subvarieties of Teichmüller space, namely the subsets where the lengths of two distinct simple closed geodesics are of equal length. We investigate the point set topology of the union of all such hypersurfaces using elementary methods. Fi…

The study examines geodesics and tight geodesics in surface curve complexes.

Study on geodesics proving index and intersection bounds, with examples of multiplicity.

Geodesics spiral around Reeb orbits in 3D contact manifolds.

R-PCA extends PCA to Riemannian manifolds for structured data.

Study geodesics on neck-degenerate manifolds, focusing and winding behavior observed.

In this article we investigate a first order reparametrization-invariant Sobolev metric on the space of immersed curves. Motivated by applications in shape analysis where discretizations of this infinite-dimensional space are needed, we extend this metric to the space of Lipschitz curves, establish the wellposedness of…

Paper proves stability for recovering connections from holonomy traces.

Geodesics of contactomorphisms on a specific manifold are characterized by Hamiltonian functions.

Develops a Riemannian archetypal analysis for interpretable non-linear data.

In the elastic shape analysis approach to shape matching and object classification, plane curves are represented as points in an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold, wherein shape dissimilarity is measured by geodesic distance. A remarkable result of Younes, Michor, Shah and Mumford says that the space of closed p…

This paper is devoted to the regularity analysis of a geodesic equation in the space of Sasakian metrics. Firstly, we reduce the geodesic equation in the space of Sasakian metrics to a Dirichlet problem of degenerate complex Monge-Ampére type eqution on the Kähler cone; secondly, we obtain a priori etimates for the abo…

Improved bounds on shortest geodesics with self-intersections on hyperbolic surfaces.

This paper restricts efficient geodesics to non-separating curves.

Study geodesic properties of time series data using Wasserstein metric.

Paper constructs new non-Anosov Partially Hyperbolic Geodesic flows using conformal deformations.

These notes are the basis of a course given at the Institut Henri Poincare in September 2014. We survey some recent results related to the geometric analysis of hypoelliptic diffusion operators on totally geodesic Riemannian foliations. We also give new applications to the study of hypocoercive estimates for Kolmogorov…

The geometric approach to optimal transport and information theory has triggered the interpretation of probability densities as an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The most studied Riemannian structures are Otto's metric, yielding the $L^2$-Wasserstein distance of optimal mass transport, and the Fisher--Rao me…

Characterizes geodesic completeness for landmark spaces.

FGBoost boosts gradient boosting for complex data.

New metrics on curve spaces improve shape analysis.

We construct examples of 2-step Carnot groups related to quaternions and study their fine structure and geometric properties. This involves the Hamiltonian formalism, which is used to obtain explicit equations for geodesics and the computation of the number of geodesics joining two different points on these groups. We …

Polynomial chaos expansions on Grassmannian submanifolds for high-dimensional stochastic systems.

We provide a direct proof of Cramér's theorem for geodesic random walks in a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. We show how to exploit the vector space structure of the tangent spaces to study large deviation properties of geodesic random walks in $M$. Furthermore, we reveal the geometric obstructions one runs into …

A new algorithm for parallel transport on shape spaces is presented and compared to existing methods.

We develop a novel analogue of Euclidean PCA (principal component analysis) for data taking values on a Riemannian symmetric space, using totally geodesic submanifolds as approximating lower dimnsional submanifolds. We illustrate the technique on n-spheres, Grassmannians, n-tori and polyspheres.

This paper studies convergence of horospheres in CAT(0) spaces.

Study of geodesics on SL(n) with Hilbert-Schmidt metric, revealing complex dynamics in higher dimensions.

We formulate the concept of time machine structure for spacetimes exhibiting a compactely constructed region with closed timelike curves. After reviewing essential properties of the pseudo Schwarzschild spacetime introduced by A. Ori, we present an analysis of its geodesics analogous to the one conducted in the case of…

Study geodesic orbit Lorentz nilmanifolds, proving structural properties.

New approach constructs symplectic structure on pseudo-Riemannian geodesics.

We study the microlocal properties of the geodesic X-ray transform $\mathcal{X}$ on a manifold with boundary allowing the presence of conjugate points. Assuming that there are no self-intersecting geodesics and all conjugate pairs are nonsingular we show that the normal operator $\mathcal{N} = \mathcal{X}^t \circ \math…