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This short introduction to positive geometries, targeted at a mathematical audience, is based on my talk at OPAC 2022.

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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Karsten Grove

An exposition of the basic geometry of twistor integrals, intended for mathematicians.

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In a family of compact, canonically polarized, complex manifolds the first variation of the lengths of closed geodesics is computed. As an application, we show the coincidence of the Fenchel-Nielsen and Weil-Petersson symplectic forms on…

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This paper explores the Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of the circle, namely $P(S^{1})$, the set of probability measures on the unit circle endowed with the 2-Wasserstein metric. Building on the foundational work of Otto,…

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We study the K\"ahler geometry of the classical Hurwitz space $\mathcal{H}^{n,b}$ of simple branched coverings of the Riemann sphere $\mathbb{P}^1$ by compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces. A generalized Weil-Petersson metric on the Hurwitz…

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We give an up-to-date overview of geometric and topological properties of cosymplectic and coKaehler manifolds. We also mention some of their applications to time-dependent mechanics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Beniamino Cappelletti-Montano , Antonio De Nicola , Ivan Yudin

This work is based on the talk delivered at Poisson 2008. We review the recent advances in Generalized Kahler geometry while stressing the use of Poisson and symplectic geometry. The derivation of the generalized Kahler potential is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Maxim Zabzine

A short historical review is made of some recent literature in the field of noncommutative geometry, especially the efforts to add a gravitational field to noncommutative models of space-time and to use it as an ultraviolet regulator. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Madore

We prove that the geodesic flow for the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces is ergodic (in fact Bernoulli) and has finite, positive metric entropy.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Keith Burns , Howard Masur , Amie Wilkinson

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Recent links between Finsler Geometry and the geometry of spacetimes are briefly revisited, and prospective ideas and results are explained. Special attention is paid to geometric problems with a direct motivation in Relativity and other…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Miguel A. Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

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