New metric on geodesic currents connects different surface genera.
problem Understanding geodesic currents on surfaces of varying genera.
method Introducing a new asymmetric metric on the space of projective filling geodesic currents.
result Metric spaces of projective filling geodesic currents for surfaces of different genera are not isometric.
Geodesic orbit metrics proven on specific homogeneous spaces.
problem Geodesic orbit metrics on homogeneous spaces.
method Using strongly isotropy irreducible spaces and proving natural reductivity.
result Geodesic orbit metrics are naturally reductive on constructed homogeneous spaces.
New metric spaces for geodesic rays in cohomology classes.
problem Constructing geodesic rays in cohomology classes with finite energy.
method Introduced a chordal metric and proved geodesic properties.
result Found a characterization of geodesic rays in terms of test curves.
Geodesic graphs for special Finsler metrics on spheres are studied.
problem Characterizing geodesic orbit Finsler metrics on spheres.
method Explicit constructions and group extensions.
result Not all projective spaces admit invariant Finsler metrics.
The paper defines a complete geodesic metric for high energy spaces in Kähler manifolds.
problem Defining a metric for high energy spaces in Kähler manifolds.
method Endowing the high energy space with a metric that makes it a complete geodesic metric space.
result The geodesic metric space (Ep(X,θ),dp) is uniformly convex for p>1. Geodesics in non-Archimedean metrics are continuous.
problem Understanding geodesics in spaces of non-Archimedean metrics.
method Maximal psh segments are geodesics, and continuity of these segments is proven.
result Maximal psh segments joining continuous psh metrics are continuous.
Study geodesic orbit metrics in quaternionic Stiefel manifolds.
problem Characterize geodesic orbit spaces in quaternionic Stiefel manifolds.
method Analyze homogeneous Riemannian spaces (M=G/H,g) with geodesics as orbits of subgroups. result Identify conditions for $(\Sp(n)/\Sp(n_1) imes \cdots imes \Sp(n_s), g)$ to be a geodesic orbit space.
Study finds homogeneous spaces with geodesic orbits but no integrable distributions.
problem Characterizing homogeneous spaces with specific geometric properties.
method Examined Lie groups with compact stabilizers and classified spaces based on geodesic orbits and integrable distributions.
result Identified homogeneous spaces with geodesic orbits but lacking integrable invariant distributions.
Two metrics on a manifold are geodesically equivalent if sets of their unparameterized geodesics coincide. In this paper we show that if two left G-invariant metrics of arbitrary signature on homogenous space G/H are geodesically equivalent, they are affinely equivalent, i.e. they have the same Levi-Civita connecti…
Study on fractional Sobolev metrics on curves, proving completeness and geodesic properties.
problem Investigating geometric properties of immersed curves with fractional Sobolev metrics.
method Analyzing Riemannian metrics on spaces of immersed curves, proving completeness and geodesic properties.
result Fractional Sobolev metrics are geodesically complete for q>3/2. The paper classifies geodesic orbit spaces with simple isotropy groups.
problem Classifying geodesic orbit spaces with simple isotropy groups.
method Classifying G-naturally reductive and G-geodesic orbit metrics on M. result Classification of geodesic orbit spaces with simple isotropy groups.
The paper finds two types of metric lines in curve spaces.
problem Classifying metric lines in jet spaces of curves.
method Established the existence of two families of metric lines in the 2-jet space of plane curves.
result Found precise criteria for identifying metric lines in sub-Riemannian geodesics.
Researchers classify geodesic orbit spaces for compact Lie groups of rank two.
problem Identifying geodesic orbit spaces for compact Lie groups of specific rank.
method Classification of simply connected geodesic orbit spaces where G is a compact Lie group of rank two.
result Only certain spheres and projective spaces, with metrics induced from Hopf fibrations, are geodesic orbit spaces for compact Lie groups of rank two.
Study geodesic orbit metrics on specific homogeneous spaces.
problem Characterize geodesic orbit spaces in a class of homogeneous bundles.
method Analyze geodesic orbit spaces of compact Lie groups with semisimple subgroups.
result Identify conditions for a metric to be geodesic orbit.
Geodesics found in a metric space of m-subharmonic functions.
problem Metric structure on energy class of m-subharmonic functions.
method Inspired by Kähler geometry, introduced a metric structure and studied metric convergence.
result Geodesics constructed in a subspace of the complete metric space.
In this paper we study fundamental properties of geodesic mappings with respect to the smoothness class of metrics. We show that geodesic mappings preserve the smoothness class of metrics. We study geodesic mappings of Einstein spaces.
Researchers analyze geodesic complexity in robot paths on tree graphs.
problem Understanding optimal paths for robots on tree graphs.
method Examined geodesic complexity in ordered and unordered configuration spaces of graphs in ℓ1 and ℓ2 metrics, finding explicit geodesics and families. result Geodesic complexity matches topological complexity in all cases studied.
Paper proves rigidity theorems for geodesically reversible Finsler metrics.
problem Understanding geodesically reversible Finsler metrics in closed manifolds.
method Applied theory of volumes and areas on Finsler spaces to establish rigidity theorems.
result Partial explanation of the scarcity of geodesically reversible Finsler metrics in closed manifolds.
Geodesics and boundaries found for metric structures on hyperbolic groups.
problem Understanding the space of metric structures on hyperbolic groups.
method Outer automorphism invariant geodesic bicombing and boundary construction.
result Boundary contains well-known pseudo metrics and rigidity results.
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…
Study weak geodesic lines in Kähler metric space, disproving a conjecture.
problem Disproving a conjecture about weak geodesic lines in Kähler metrics.
method Establish Ross-Witt Nyström correspondence, construct weak geodesic lines.
result Some weak geodesic lines are smooth, disproving a popular conjecture.
We study properties of Sobolev-type metrics on the space of immersed plane curves. We show that the geodesic equation for Sobolev-type metrics with constant coefficients of order 2 and higher is globally well-posed for smooth initial data as well as initial data in certain Sobolev spaces. Thus the space of closed plane…
The Virasoro-Bott group endowed with the right-invariant L2-metric (which is a weak Riemannian metric) has the KdV-equation as geodesic equation. We prove that this metric space has vanishing geodesic distance.
Geodesics on polygons in a unit disk are studied with unique metric properties.
problem Characterizing geodesics on polygons within a unit disk.
method Defining a metric on polygons such that geodesics are curves in the family C.
result The constructed metric space is not isometric to any convex domain in R^2.
A real valued function φ of one variable is called a metric transform if for every metric space (X,d) the composition dφ=φ∘d is also a metric on X. We give a complete characterization of the class of approximately nondecreasing, unbounded metric transforms φ such that the trans…
Study geodesic extendibility on metric spaces and map them to a half-space.
problem Geodesic extendibility on metric spaces.
method Explicit isometry between (Σ(X),dH) and XimesR≥0. result Established group isometry between Iso(X,d) and Iso(Σ(X),d_H) for Hadamard spaces.
Geodesics in R^n configuration spaces for points apart by epsilon.
problem Finding paths between points in R^n with minimum distance constraints.
method Explicit formulas for geodesics in configuration spaces with Euclidean metric.
result Geodesic motion-planning rules for configuration spaces of ordered pairs of points.
Study geodesics in Kähler metrics for all time.
problem Understanding geodesics in Kähler metrics for all time.
method Analyzing geodesics as induced by holomorphic vector fields.
result Derivative of geodesics implies a variant of convexity theorem.
Geodesic envelopes stay uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.
problem Understanding the behavior of geodesics in Teichmüller spaces.
method Identifying extremal geodesics, computing Fenchel-Nielsen twisting, and estimating earthquake path lengths.
result Width of geodesic envelopes is uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.
We study the geodesic equation for the Dirichlet (gradient) metric in the space of Kaehler potentials. We first solve the initial value problem for the geodesic equation of the combination metric, including the gradient metric. We then discuss a comparison theorem between it and the Calabi metric. As geometric motivati…
Characterizes geodesic completeness for landmark spaces.
problem Ensuring geodesics exist for all times in landmark spaces.
method Integrability criterion based on cometric kernel behavior.
result Full characterization of geodesic completeness for smooth Riemannian metrics.
Circle's metric is at least π/4 away from any simply connected geodesic space.
problem Comparing simply connected geodesic spaces to the circle.
method Using Gromov-Hausdorff distance and topological properties.
result The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between circle and any simply connected geodesic space is at least π/4.
This article provides an overview of various notions of shape spaces, including the space of parametrized and unparametrized curves, the space of immersions, the diffeomorphism group and the space of Riemannian metrics. We discuss the Riemannian metrics that can be defined thereon, and what is known about the propertie…
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…
We continue our investigation of the space of geodesic laminations on a surface, endowed with the Hausdorff topology. We determine the topology of this space for the once-punctured torus and the 4-times-punctured sphere. For these two surfaces, we also compute the Hausdorff dimension of the space of geodesic lamination…
Geodesics on the infinite dimensional symmetric space $\hcal$ of Kähler metrics in a fixed Kähler class on a projective Kähler manifold X are solutions of a homogeneous complex Monge-Ampère equation in X×A, where $A \subset \C$ is an annulus. They are analogues of 1PS (one-parameter subgroups) on symmetric spa…
We establish the essentially optimal form of Donaldson's geodesic stability conjecture regarding existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics. We carry this out by exploring in detail the metric geometry of Mabuchi geodesic rays, and the uniform convexity properties of the space of Kähler metrics.
Geodesic currents on hyperbolic surfaces have dual spaces that are metric trees.
problem Understanding the dual spaces of geodesic currents on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyzing the geometric properties of dual spaces, including their hyperbolicity and completeness.
result The dual spaces of geodesic currents are Gromov hyperbolic metric tree-graded spaces.
The space of positively curved hermitian metrics on a positive holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex manifold is an infinite-dimensional symmetric space. It is shown by Phong and Sturm that geodesics in this space can be uniformly approximated by geodesics in the finite dimensional spaces of Bergman metrics. W…
Geodesic orbit metrics on real flag manifolds identified.
problem Classifying real flag manifolds with geodesic orbit metrics.
method Investigated invariant metrics on real flag manifolds, focusing on those where geodesics are orbits of one-parameter subgroups.
result Non-trivial geodesic orbit metrics exist on real flag manifolds, unlike in the complex case.
We consider spaces of smooth immersed plane curves (modulo translations and/or rotations), equipped with reparameterization invariant weak Riemannian metrics involving second derivatives. This includes the full H2-metric without zero order terms. We find isometries (called R-transforms) from some of these spaces i…
Study shows volume constraints lead to isoperimetric constant bounds in specific metric spaces.
problem Understanding isoperimetric constants in metric measure spaces with measure contraction property.
method Proves local isoperimetric inequalities on essentially non-branching MCP(K,N) spaces with volume constraints and geometric conditions.
result Establishes bounds on isoperimetric constants in smaller geodesic balls.
The paper shows how sublinear biLipschitz equivalences affect Morse boundaries of metric spaces.
problem Understanding how sublinear biLipschitz equivalences affect Morse boundaries of metric spaces.
method Defining sublinear biLipschitz equivalence and Morse boundaries, proving invariance under SBEs, using sublinear rays.
result κ-Morse boundaries of proper geodesic metric spaces are invariant under suitable sublinear biLipschitz equivalences.
Study proves existence of closed geodesics on spheres and projective spaces.
problem Proving the existence of closed geodesics on Finsler metrics.
method Topological methods and Lusternik-Schnirelmann-type approach, using spherical complexities.
result Existence of multiple closed geodesics and upper bounds on their lengths.
Geodesic rays and chordal distances link algebraic and geometric properties of positive metrics.
problem Understanding the geometry of the space of positive metrics at infinity.
method Using Monge-Ampère equations and test configurations, algebraic descriptions of geodesic rays and chordal distances are derived.
result The Mabuchi chordal distance between geodesic rays associated with ample test configurations equals the spectral distance between their filtrations.
Completes the space of vector-valued one-forms on manifolds.
problem Metric incompleteness of the space of full-ranked one-forms.
method Distance equality and quotient structures.
result Concrete description of the metric completion of the space of full-ranked one-forms.
The L2-metric or Fubini-Study metric on the non-linear Grassmannian of all submanifolds of type M in a Riemannian manifold (N,g) induces geodesic distance 0. We discuss another metric which involves the mean curvature and shows that its geodesic distance is a good topological metric. The vanishing phenomenon for…
A Finsler space (M,F) is called a geodesic orbit space if any geodesic of constant speed is the orbit of a one-parameter subgroup of isometries of (M,F). In this paper, we study Finsler metrics on Euclidean spaces which are geodesic orbit metrics. We will show that, in this case (M,F) is a fiber bundle over a s…