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The paper is a study of geodesic in two-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Firstly, the local properties of geodesics in a neighborhood of generic parabolic points are investigated. The equation of the geodesic flow has singularities at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Alexey Remizov

The (4+1) dimensional conformally flat Eisenhart geometry is investigated in this work, stressing the contribution of the stress tensor generating its curvature. The energy-momentum tensor $T^{a}_{~b}$ is traceless and has only one nonzero…

General Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hristu Culetu

We determine explicit formulas for geodesics (in the Euclidean metric) in the configuration space of ordered pairs (x,x') of points in R^n which satisfy d(x,x')>=epsilon. We interpret this as two or three (depending on the parity of n)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Donald M Davis

In this article we investigate the dynamical properties of the geodesic flow for a proper metric space endowed with a proper action by isometries of a group with a contracting element. We show that the existence of a contracting isometry is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Rémi Coulon

The purpose of this article is to exploit the geometric structure of Quantum Mechanics and of statistical manifolds to study the qualitative effect that the quantum properties have in the statistical description of a system. We show that…

We analyze in the context of geometrothermodynamics a Legendre invariant metric structure in the equilibrium space of an ideal gas. We introduce the concept of thermodynamic geodesic as a succession of points, each corresponding to a state…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Hernando Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez , Alejandro Vazquez

Classical geometry can be described either in terms of a metric tensor $g_{ab}(x)$ or in terms of the geodesic distance $\sigma^2(x,x')$. Recent work, however, has shown that the geodesic distance is better suited to describe the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 T. Padmanabhan

Given a closed Riemannian manifold, we show how to close an orbit of the geodesic flow by a small perturbation of the metric in the $C^1$ topology.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Ludovic Rifford

Random fields are mathematical structures used to model the spatial interaction of random variables along time, with applications ranging from statistical physics and thermodynamics to system's biology and the simulation of complex systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Alexandre L. M. Levada

We consider a traversable wormhole solution of Einstein's gravity conformally coupled to a massless scalar field, a solution derived by Barcelo and Visser based on the JNWW spacetime. We study the geodesic motion of time-, light- and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 Felix Willenborg , Saskia Grunau , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In this article, we study the dynamics of geodesic flows on Riemannian (not necessarily compact) manifolds with no conjugate points. We prove the Anosov Closing Lemma, the local product structure, and the transitivity of the geodesic flows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Fei Liu , Xiaokai Liu , Fang Wang

The locus of probability flow in Quantum Mechanics and information is explored. We explore loops, loop sequences and loop surfaces in the statistical geodesics. Having known about the loop character of the statistical geodesics in…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Aalok Pandya

We investigate the geodesic motions of a massive particle and light ray in the hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis in the 5-dimensional hypercylindrical spacetime. The class of the solutions depends on one constant a which is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee

Periodic geodesics on the modular surface correspond to periodic orbits of the geodesic flow in its unit tangent bundle $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\backslash\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})$. The complement of any finite number of orbits is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Alex Brandts , Tali Pinsky , Lior Silberman

Recent results suggest that boundaries of coherent fluid vortices (elliptic coherent structures) can be identified as closed null-geodesics of appropriate Lorentzian metrics defined on the flow domain. Here we derive an automated method for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Mattia Serra , George Haller

The stochastics two-layer quasi-geostrophic flow model is an intermediate system between the single-layer two dimensional barotropic flow model and the continuously stratified three dimensional baroclinic flow model. This model is widely…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-10-17 Aijun Du , Jinqiao Duan , Hongjun Gao

We prove topological transitivity for the Weil Petersson geodesic flow for two-dimensional moduli spaces of hyperbolic structures. Our proof follows a new approach that exploits the density of singular unit tangent vectors, the geometry of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-05 Mark Pollicott , Howard Weiss , Scott A. Wolpert

We present a model of the gravitational field based on two symmetric tensors. The equations of motion of test particles are derived: Massive particles do not follow a geodesic but massless particles trajectories are null geodesics of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Alfaro

We prove that the geodesic flow on a locally CAT(-1) metric space which is compact, or more generally convex cocompact with non-elementary fundamental group, can be coded by a suspension flow over an irreducible shift of finite type with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-02 David Constantine , Jean-François Lafont , Daniel J. Thompson

In this paper, we prove Ruelle's inequality for the geodesic flow in non-compact manifolds with Anosov geodesic flow and some assumptions on the curvature. In the same way, we obtain Pesin's formula for Anosov geodesic flow in non-compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Alexander Cantoral , Sergio Romaña