arXiv research

Study geodesics on graphs with random lengths, proving bi-infinite paths exist.

We consider the existence of simple closed geodesics or "geodesic knots" in finite volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Previous results show that at least one geodesic knot always exists [Bull. London Math. Soc. 31(1) (1999) 81-86], and that certain arithmetic manifolds contain infinitely many geodesic knots [J. …

Geodesics grow infinitely in certain Finsler manifolds.

The study finds infinite geodesics on manifolds with specific homotopy group properties.

The study reveals conditions for infinite closed geodesics on specific surfaces.

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…

Spray-invariant sets maintain geodesics on infinite-dimensional manifolds.

We prove that if a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold M contains infinitely many totally geodesic surfaces, then M is arithmetic.

The paper solves curvature problems on infinite hyperbolic surfaces.

We enumerate a necessary condition for the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct, non-constant, prime closed geodesics on an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold $M$. That is, we show that any Riemannian metric on $M$ admits infinitely many prime closed geodesics such that the energy functional $E:ΛM\to\m…

We prove that on closed Riemannian manifolds with infinite abelian, but not cyclic, fundamental group, any isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. We conjecture that the result remains true if the fundamental group is infinite cyclic. We also formulate a generalization …

Using the theory of geodesics on surfaces of revolution, we introduce the period function. We use this as our main tool in showing that any two-dimensional orbifold of revolution homeomorphic to S^2 must contain an infinite number of geometrically distinct closed geodesics. Since any such orbifold of revolution can be …

New surfaces with special geodesic and horocycle behaviors discovered.

Study geodesics on infinite-dimensional manifolds using Finsler structures.

The paper finds infinitely many magnetic geodesics on non-compact manifolds.

Study transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.

Totally geodesic submanifolds in convex cores are properly immersed and have finite volume.

Researchers describe the Gromov boundary of a graph related to surfaces.

New rays on infinite type surfaces help understand their boundaries.

The study finds infinitely many twist knot complements with totally geodesic surfaces.

Periodic geodesics on Hilbert half-Lie groups exist whenever the fundamental group is nontrivial.

3D hyperbolic spaces have endless simple paths.

We show that any two non-conjugate points on a forward or backward complete connected Finsler manifold can be joined by infinitely many geodesics which are not covered by finitely many closed ones, provided that the Betti numbers of the based loop space grow unbounded.

Developed a random walk analog of geodesic flow on hyperbolic groups.

We show that on every compact Riemannian 2-orbifold there exist infinitely many closed geodesics of positive length.

Veech groups uniformize Teichmüller geodesic curves in Riemann moduli space. Recently, examples of infinitely generated Veech groups have been given. We show that these can even have infinitely many cusps and infinitely many infinite ends. We further show that examples exist for which each direction of an infinite end …

Infinite hyperbolic manifolds share same perimeter-to-volume ratio.

Let $V$ be a separable Hilbert space, possibly infinite dimensional. Let $\St(p,V)$ be the Stiefel manifold of orthonormal frames of $p$ vectors in $V$, and let $\Gr(p,V)$ be the Grassmann manifold of $p$ dimensional subspaces of $V$. We study the distance and the geodesics in these manifolds, by reducing the matter to…

In this paper, we study geodesics and geodesic vectors for homogeneous exponential Finsler space and homogeneous infinite series Finsler space. Further, we find necessary and sufficient condition for a non-zero vector in these homogeneous spaces to be a geodesic vector.

We observe that a vanishing geodesic distance arising from a weak Riemannian metric in a Hilbert manifold can be constructed.

The aim of this paper is the study of the geodesic distance in operator groups with several Riemannian metrics. More precisely we study the geodesic distance in self-adjoint operator groups with the left invariant Riemannian metric induced by the infinite trace and extend known results about the completeness of some cl…

Study validates Michor-Mumford conjecture in infinite dimensional Hilbertian H-type groups.

Study shows orbits on a specific surface without intersecting geodesics.

In this paper we construct multiparametric families of two dimensional metrics with polynomial first integral. Such integrable geodesic flows are described by solutions of some semi-Hamiltonian hydrodynamic type system. We find infinitely many conservation laws and commuting flows for this system. This procedure allows…

Paper finds conditions for two geodesics on complex manifolds.

In this paper we explore the connection between special degenerations of algebraic manifolds and geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics. We provide a new and general geometric construction of nontrivial solutions for the geodesic equation. We show how to associate to any special nontrivial degeneration a geodesic of …

Study infinite combinatorial Ricci flow on spherical surfaces.

We parametrize the commensurability classes of curves on Shimura surfaces that are totally geodesic, i.e., the commensurability classes of so-called $\mathbb{C}$-Fuchsian subgroups. In particular, if a Shimura surface contains one commensurability class of totally geodesic curves, it contains infinitely many.

If all prime closed geodesics on $(S^n,F)$ with an irreversible Finsler metric $F$ are irrationally elliptic, there exist either exactly $2\left[\frac{n+1}{2}\right]$ or infinitely many distinct closed geodesics. As an application, we show the existence of three distinct closed geodesics on bumpy Finsler $(S^3,F)$ if a…

We consider Heisenberg groups equipped with a sub-Finsler metric. Using methods of optimal control theory we prove that in this geometric setting the infinite geodesics are horizontal lines under the assumption that the sub-Finsler metric is defined by a strictly convex norm. This answers a question posed in [5] and ha…

Classifies totally geodesic submanifolds in symmetric spaces.

The study examines surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds that become nearly flat.

Finite totally geodesic hypersurfaces in curved manifolds proven.

Study on geodesics and dihedral groups in lattices.

We discuss the existence of the angle between two curves in Teichmüller spaces and show that, in any infinite dimensional Teichmüller space, there exist infinitely many geodesic triangles each of which has the same three vertices and satisfies the property that its three sides have the same and arbitrarily given length…

Study geodesic paths on flat surfaces, comparing length and singularity counts.

The main theorem of this paper classifies the quasi-geodesics in a Coxeter group that are tracked by geodesics. As corollaries, we show that if a Coxeter group acts geometrically on a CAT(0) space X then CAT(0) rays (and lines) are tracked by Cayley graph geodesics, all special subgroups of the Coxeter group are quasi-…

Many important equations of mathematical physics arise geometrically as geodesic equations on Lie groups. In this paper, we study an example of a geodesic equation, the two-component Hunter-Saxton (2HS) system, that displays a number of unique geometric features. We show that 2HS describes the geodesic flow on a manifo…