arXiv research

We study the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem using the Intrinsic Flat Distance. In particular we consider the class of complete asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and no interior closed minimal surfaces whose boundaries are either outermost minimal h…

Inspired by the Gromov-Hausdorff distance, we define the intrinsic flat distance between oriented $m$ dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary by isometrically embedding the manifolds into a common metric space, measuring the flat distance between them and taking an infimum over all isometric embeddings and all c…

In this paper we produce a sequence of Riemannian manifolds $M_j^m$, $m \ge 2$, which converge in the intrinsic flat sense to the unit $m$-sphere with the restricted Euclidean distance. This limit space has no geodesics achieving the distances between points, exhibiting previously unknown behavior of intrinsic flat lim…

Here we explore a variety of properties of intrinsic flat convergence. We introduce the sliced filling volume and interval sliced filling volume and explore the relationship between these notions, the tetrahedral property and the disappearance of points under intrinsic flat convergence. We prove two new Gromov-Hausdorf…

Stability of positive mass theorem for hyperbolic manifolds studied.

The paper proves stability of manifolds with boundary under volume and distance constraints.

This article is the sequel to our previous paper [LS] dealing with the near-equality case of the Positive Mass Theorem. We study the near-equality case of the Penrose Inequality for the class of complete asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature whose boundaries a…

The paper proves convergence of metrics to a limit in a specific geometric context.

We use the notion of intrinsic flat distance to address the almost rigidity of the positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. In particular, we prove that a sequence of spherically symmetric asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds satisfying the conditions of the positive mass theorem converges to hyper…

Study shows convergence of volumes on manifolds with boundary under area constraints.

In this note we define a distance between two pointed locally integral current spaces. We prove that a sequence of pointed locally integral current spaces converges with respect to this distance if and only if it converges in the sense of Lang-Wenger. This enables us to state the compactness theorem by Lang-Wenger for …

The null distance for Lorentzian manifolds was recently introduced by Sormani and Vega. Under mild assumptions on the time function of the spacetime, the null distance gives rise to an intrinsic, conformally invariant metric that induces the manifold topology. We show when warped products of low regularity and globally…

The paper examines sequences of metric spaces converging to compact limits with specific properties.

Criterion for flat circle bundles using intrinsically harmonic forms.

3D spheres with certain properties approach the round sphere.

Null distance encodes causal structure in spacetimes.

We use the intrinsic area to define a distance on the space of homothety classes of convex bodies in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, which makes it isometric to a convex subset of the infinite dimensional hyperbolic space. The ambient Lorentzian structure is an extension of the intrinsic area form of convex bodies…

In this article, we consider the Angenent-Caputo-Knopf's Ricci Flow through neckpinch singularities. We will explain how one can see the A-C-K's Ricci flow through a neckpinch singularity as a flow of integral current spaces. We then prove the continuity of this weak flow with respect to the Sormani-Wenger Intrinsic Fl…

This paper studies rectifiability in Carnot groups and proves geometric area formulas.

New manifolds with negative curvature limit to one with negative curvature.

The existing approaches to intrinsic dimension estimation usually are not reliable when the data are nonlinearly embedded in the high dimensional space. In this work, we show that the explicit accounting to geometric properties of unknown support leads to the polynomial correction to the standard maximum likelihood est…

New distances defined between space-times, proving some definite.

Criterion for surfaces in Heisenberg group to be graphs using flat cones.

New proof shows affine manifolds with parallel volume are Riemannian-flat.

Proves compactness for timed-metric spaces using new distance and maps.

The paper proves stability of the positive mass theorem using intrinsic flat convergence.

New method estimates intrinsic dimensionality using angles, not distances.

Study shows intrinsic timed Hausdorff convergence leads to Gromov-Hausdorff and big bang convergence.

The rigidity of the Positive Mass Theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and zero mass is Euclidean space. We study the stability of this statement for spaces that can be realized as graphical hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. We prove (under certain technical…

Study shows tori metrics converging to flat under specific conditions.

Study sequences of static spacetimes using null distance convergence.

We show that for a noncollapsing sequence of closed, connected, oriented Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature uniformly bounded from below and diameter uniformly bounded above, Gromov-Hausdorff convergence essentially agrees with intrinsic flat convergence.

Estimates intrinsic dimension of data for GANs.

Proves stability of spacetime Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric initial data.

New estimators for intrinsic dimension and Wasserstein distance improve OT accuracy.

We consider sequences of metrics, $g_j$, on a Riemannian manifold, $M$, which converge smoothly on compact sets away from a singular set $S\subset M$, to a metric, $g_\infty$, on $M\setminus S$. We prove theorems which describe when $M_j=(M, g_j)$ converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to the metric completion, $(M_\in…

Characterizes intrinsic Lorentzian spaces using midpoint properties.

We present the Tetrahedral Compactness Theorem which states that sequences of Riemannian manifolds with a uniform upper bound on volume and diameter that satisfy a uniform tetrahedral property have a subsequence which converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a countably $\mathcal{H}^m$ rectifiable metric space of the…

Herein we present open problems and survey examples and theorems concerning sequences of Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower bounds on scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Examples of Gromov and of Ilmanen which naturally ought to have certain limit spaces do not converge with respect to smooth or Gromov-Hausdo…

In this paper, geometric characterizations of conformally flat and radially flat hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ are given by means of their extrinsic geometry. Under suitable conditions on the shape operator, we classify conformally flat hypersurfaces in terms of …

New proof shows no flat embedding for Petersen family graphs.

Maps preserving mass and injective on boundary are isometries.

Catenaries defined on any Riemannian surface using intrinsic distance.

Optimally estimate distances on surfaces using reconstructed meshes.

Introduces new Wasserstein distances for more intrinsic metrics.

Sharp estimates for Finsler metrics in convex domains.

Study shows one-dimensional location-scale-shape models are flat in Wasserstein geometry.

We consider sequences of compact Riemannian manifolds with uniform Sobolev bounds on their metric tensors, and prove that their distance functions are uniformly bounded in the Hölder sense. This is done by establishing a general trace inequality on Riemannian manifolds which is an interesting result on its own. We prov…