arXiv research

Geodesic loops escape from balls at a sublinear rate imply virtually abelian fundamental group.

Approximate symmetries of geodesic equations on 2-spheres are studied. These are the symmetries of the perturbed geodesic equations which represent approximate path of a particle rather than exact path. After giving the exact symmetries of the geodesic equations, two different approaches to study the approximate symmet…

Given a compact orientable 3-manifold M whose boundary is a hyperbolic surface and a simple closed curve C in its boundary, every knot in M is homotopic to one whose complement admits a complete hyperbolic structure with totally geodesic boundary in which the geodesic representative of C is as small as you like.

We investigate the geometry of word metrics on fundamental groups of manifolds associated with the generating sets consisting of elements represented by closed geodesics. We ask whether the diameter of such a metric is finite or infinite. The first answer we interpret as an abundance of closed geodesics, while the seco…

We study geodesics on a planar Riemann surface of infinite type having a single infinite end. Of particular interest is the class of geodesics that go out the infinite end in a most efficient manner. We investigate properties of these geodesics and relate them to the structure of the boundary of a Dirichlet polygon for…

Totally geodesic hypersurfaces in hyperbolic manifolds are rigid under certain conditions.

The paper defines a complete geodesic metric for high energy spaces in Kähler manifolds.

We list special graphs of degree 4 with at most 3 vertices (atoms from the theory of integrable hamiltonian systems) which could be represented by a union of closed geodesics on the one of the following surfaces with metric of constant curvature: sphere, projective plane, torus, Klein bottle.

New metric spaces for geodesic rays in cohomology classes.

A hyperbolic conjugacy class in the modular group PSL(2,Z) corresponds to a closed geodesic in the modular orbifold. Some of these geodesics virtually bound immersed surfaces, and some do not; the distinction is related to the polyhedral structure in the unit ball of the stable commutator length norm. We prove the foll…

Study geodesic X-ray transforms on hyperbolic surfaces, proposing new reconstruction methods.

The paper embeds non-arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds into higher-dimensional spaces.

Develops active intervals for geodesics in Teichmüller space.

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

Study on curves around a Whitney umbrella focusing on geodesic and normal curvatures.

A well-known theorem of Wolpert shows that the Weil-Petersson symplectic form on Teichmüller space, computed on two infinitesimal twists along simple closed geodesics on a fixed hyperbolic surface, equals the sum of the cosines of the intersection angles. We define an infinitesimal deformation starting from a more gene…

Study totally umbilic submanifolds using planar pseudo-geodesics.

We create a smooth manifold of triangular meshes with a geodesically complete metric.

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

The paper finds Riemannian metric representatives for Stiefel-Whitney classes.

We prove a partial generalization of Bonahon's tameness result to surfaces inside irreducible 3-manifolds with hyperbolic fundamental group. Bonahon's result states that geometrically infinite ends of freely indecomposable hyperbolic 3-manifolds are simply degenerate. It is easy to see that a geometrically infinite end…

Study proper sampling for X-ray transforms on simple surfaces.

A pair of distinct free homotopy classes of closed curves in an orientable surface $F$ with negative Euler characteristic is said to be length equivalent if for any hyperbolic structure on $F$, the length of the geodesic representative of one class is equal to the length of the geodesic representative of the other clas…

Geodesically complete spaces with curvature bounded above have maps with finite energy that are Lipschitz.

Study minima of geodesic lengths for specific curves on surfaces.

Phase plotting is a useful way of visualising functions on complex space. We reinvent the method in the context of hyperbolic geometry, and we use it to plot functions on various representative surfaces for hyperbolic space, illustrating with direct motions in particular. The reinvention is nontrivial, and we discuss t…

The study proves nearly geodesic surfaces are filling in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Let $Σ$ be a compact, orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic, and let $h$ be a complete hyperbolic metric on $Σ$. A geodesic curve $γ$ in $Σ$ is filling, if it cuts the surface into topological disks and annuli. We propose an efficient algorithm for deciding whether a geodesic curve, represented as a word …

Classifies 3-braids from choreographic motions on Lissajous curves, linking them to mapping classes and geodesics.

The Weil-Petersson metric for the moduli space of Riemann surfaces has negative sectional curvature. Surfaces represented in the complement of a compact set in the moduli space have short geodesics. At such surfaces the Weil-Petersson metric is approximately a product metric. An almost product metric has sections with …

We consider remodeling the planar search patterns, in the presence of the river-type perturbation represented by the weak vector field, basing on the time-optimal paths as Finslerian solutions to the Zermelo navigation problem via Randers metric.

Let M be a complete finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold with compact non-empty geodesic boundary and k toric cusps, and let T be a geometric partially truncated triangulation of M. We show that the variety of solutions of consistency equations for T is a smooth manifold or real dimension 2k near the point representing …

Formula for projecting geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, relating lengths to subsurface projections.

The paper examines geometric invariants near a specific type of singular point.

Study proves existence of multiple geodesics in a specific metric space.

Geodesic distance matrices can reveal shape properties that are largely invariant to non-rigid deformations, and thus are often used to analyze and represent 3-D shapes. However, these matrices grow quadratically with the number of points. Thus for large point sets it is common to use a low-rank approximation to the di…

The paper connects Riemann surface length spectra to Brownian loop measures.

Introduces new geodesic fields for Finsler manifolds.

In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of two Teichmüller geodesic rays determined by Jenkins-Strebel differentials, and we obtain a generalization of a theorem in \cite{Amano14}. We also consider the infimum of the asymptotic distance in shifting base points of the rays along the geodesics. We show that th…

Generative models learn manifold structure; new approach uses atlas and geodesic interpolation.

Paper proposes a new classifier for hyperbolic spaces using horospherical boundaries.

Study efficient geodesics in curve complex using dot graphs.

We give a geometric characterization of compact Riemann surfaces admitting orientation reversing involutions with fixed points. Such surfaces are generally called real surfaces and can be represented by real algebraic curves with non-empty real part. We show that there is a family of disjoint simple closed geodesics th…

Paper proposes a new generative model for discrete distributions using flows on submanifolds.

Let $\varphi$ be a hyperbolic outer automorphism of a non-abelian free group $F_N$ such that $\varphi$ and $\varphi^{-1}$ admit absolute train track representatives. We prove that $\varphi$ acts on the space of projectivized geodesic currents on $F_N$ with generalized uniform North-South dynamics.

Extends K-energy to complexified Kähler classes for scalar curvature study.

The set of totally geodesic representatives of a homotopy class of maps from a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold $N$ with no focal points is path-connected and, when nonempty, equal to the set of energy-minimizing maps in that class. When $N$ is compact…

Suppose $(X,ω)$ is a compact Kähler manifold of dimension $n$, and $θ$ is closed $(1,1)$-form representing a big cohomology class. We introduce a metric $d_1$ on the finite energy space $\mathcal{E}^1(X,θ)$, making it a complete geodesic metric space. This construction is potentially more rigid compared to its analog f…