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48 results for geodesic preservation

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.

2012-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space evolve to geodesic spheres.

problem Volume preserving Gauss curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space.
method Volume preserving flow with speed given by Gauss curvature power α, using Alexandrov reflection and hyperbolic curvature measures.
result Smooth solution remains convex and converges to a geodesic sphere exponentially.

The two main topics of this text are as follows: Firstly, three modifications of the theorem of Beltrami will be presented for diffeomorphisms between Riemannian manifolds and a space form which preserve the geodesic circles, the geodesic hyperspheres, or the minimal surfaces, respectively. Secondly, it is defined what…

2009-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove: "If MM is a compact hypersurface of the hyperbolic space, convex by horospheres and evolving by the volume preserving mean curvature flow, then it flows for all time, convexity by horospheres is preserved and the flow converges, exponentially, to a geodesic sphere". In addition, we show that the same conclus…

2006-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We determine the Riemannian manifolds for which the group of exact volume preserving diffeomorphisms is a totally geodesic subgroup of the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms, considering right invariant L2L^2-metrics. The same is done for the subgroup of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms as a subgroup of the group of…

2001-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study variations of Riemannian submersions to maintain geodesic fibers and positive curvatures.

problem Maintain geodesic fibers and positive sectional curvatures in Riemannian submersions.
method Vary Riemannian metrics while keeping fibers totally geodesic and horizontal distribution fixed.
result Conditions for making sectional curvatures positive and existence of fat submersions.

The paper characterizes strong Hamel functions using symmetries and proves their preservation properties.

problem Characterizing strong Hamel functions and their symmetries in Finsler spaces.
method Analyzing geodesic spray, strong dual symmetries, and strong dynamical symmetries.
result Strong Hamel functions can be characterized in terms of strong dual symmetries and strong dynamical symmetries.

Geometric framework for SPD matrices preserving subspace structures.

problem Processing SPD-valued data with preserved subspace structures.
method Thompson geometry of the semidefinite cone, extreme generalized eigenvalues, geodesic space structure.
result Novel inductive mean of SPD matrices based on Thompson geometry.

Study curvature flows on pinched Hadamard surfaces, proving convexity preservation and convergence.

problem Preserving convexity and convergence of curves under curvature flows on pinched Hadamard surfaces.
method Area- and length-preserving curvature flows, refined comparison arguments, delicate curvature estimates.
result Convexity is preserved and curves converge to a geodesic circle under certain conditions.

Study finds conjugate points in geodesics of Kolmogorov flows on torus.

problem Characterizing pairs of integers (m,n) for which geodesics have conjugate points.
method Analysis of geodesics in the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of a torus using stream functions.
result Existence of conjugate points for all pairs of strictly positive integers (m,n).

Over a compact oriented manifold, the space of Riemannian metrics and normalised positive volume forms admits a natural pseudo-Riemannian metric GG, which is useful for the study of Perelman's W\mathcal{W} functional. We show that if the initial speed of a GG-geodesic is GG-orthogonal to the tangent space to the or…

2015-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We relate the existence of many infinite geodesics on Alexandrov spaces to a statement about the average growth of volumes of balls. We deduce that the geodesic flow exists and preserves the Liouville measure in several important cases. The developed analytic tool has close ties to integral geometry.

2017-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Establishes a link between heat diffusion and manifold distances in data.

problem No theoretical link between diffusion-based manifold learning and geodesic distances.
method Formulates heat geodesic embeddings based on Riemannian geometry.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art in preserving manifold distances and cluster structure.

The paper studies geodesic mappings in special Riemannian manifolds.

problem Investigating geodesic mappings in specific Riemannian manifolds.
method Proof of geodesic mappings properties and new results on geodesic mappings of various Riemannian manifolds.
result New results on geodesic mappings of quasi Einstein, Ricci recurrent, and Ricci symmetric manifolds.

We show that a conformal connection on a closed oriented surface ΣΣ of negative Euler characteristic preserves precisely one conformal structure and is furthermore uniquely determined by its unparametrised geodesics. As a corollary it follows that the unparametrised geodesics of a Riemannian metric on ΣΣ determine th…

2014-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proves geodesics and focal points unchanged by conformal changes in pseudo-Finsler manifolds.

problem Understanding the behavior of lightlike geodesics in pseudo-Finsler manifolds.
method Used Chern connection, anisotropic calculus, and critical points of energy functional to prove invariance.
result Lightlike geodesics and focal points are preserved by anisotropic conformal changes.

First-passage percolation affects graph properties like curvature and geodesics.

problem Effect of first-passage percolation on graph curvature and geodesics.
method Randomly perturbs the metric of a graph by assigning random edge lengths.
result Non-positive curvature and geodesic properties are not preserved by first-passage percolation.

Study of mean curvature flows on graphs in warped product manifolds, focusing on behavior at infinity.

problem Behavior of mean curvature flows on graphs in warped product manifolds, especially at infinity.
method Analysis of curve shortening flow and mean curvature flow on geodesic graphs for various warping functions.
result Long-time existence of mean curvature flows and vanishing of curvature and derivatives at infinity.

Let H be the hyperbolic space of dimension n+1. A geodesic foliation of H is given by a smooth unit vector field on H all of whose integral curves are geodesics. Each geodesic foliation of H determines an n-dimensional submanifold M of the 2n-dimensional manifold L of all the oriented geodesics of H (up to orientation …

2014-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that if two closed hyperbolic surfaces (not necessarily orientable or even connected) have the same Laplace spectrum, then for every length they have the same number of orientation-preserving geodesics and the same number of orientation-reversing geodesics. Restricted to orientable surfaces, this result reduces…

2006-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

LIMP learns latent shapes with metric preservation, improving generative models.

problem Insufficient training data for high-fidelity latent representations.
method Metric preservation as a prior, geometric distortion criterion, geodesic loss.
result Synthetic samples of higher quality achieved through metric preservation.

Study proves a new formula for capillary hypersurfaces and shows a flow converging to a special shape.

problem Understanding the behavior of capillary hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space.
method Developed a volume-preserving flow starting from a star-shaped initial hypersurface and proved its long-time existence and convergence.
result The flow converges to a θθ-totally umbilical cap, which is an energy minimizer for a given enclosed volume.

The paper proves that under certain conditions, solutions to a specific differential inequality are nonnegative.

problem Preserving positivity of solutions to a differential inequality on Riemannian manifolds.
method Analytic approach using LlocpL^p_{loc} norms and growth conditions over geodesic balls.
result Nonnegative solutions to the inequality Δu+λu0-Δu + λu \geq 0 are preserved under suitable growth conditions.

Geodesic flows on certain surfaces are shown to be semi-conjugate to expansive flows.

problem Understanding geodesic flows on compact surfaces without conjugate points.
method Time-preserving semi-conjugation to a continuous expansive flow.
result Geodesic flows on compact surfaces without conjugate points of genus > 1 have a unique measure of maximal entropy.

Extends DCP framework to Hadamard manifolds for geodesically convex functions.

problem Verifying convexity in nonlinear programs on Hadamard manifolds.
method Introduces Disciplined Geodesically Convex Programming (DGCP) framework, defining compositions and transformations for geodesically convex functions.
result Allows verification of geodesic convexity for a broader range of functions, including statistical estimators and matrix-valued optimization.

Extends Paulin's result to relatively hyperbolic groups.

problem Proving quasi-isometric equivalence between relatively hyperbolic groups.
method Introducing relative quasi-Mobius maps and using coarsely cusp-preserving quasi-isometries.
result Establishes a homeomorphism between Bowditch boundaries inducing quasi-Mobius maps.