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We prove that the length spectrum metric and the arc-length spectrum metric are almost-isometric on the $\epsilon_0$-relative part of Teichmuller spaces of surfaces with boundary.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Youliang Zhong , Lixin Liu , Weixu Su

In this paper we study critial isometric and minimal isometric embeddings of classes of Riemannian metrics which we call {\it quasi-$k$-curved metrics}. Quasi-$k$-curved metrics generalize the metrics of space forms. We construct explicit…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Thomas Ivey , J. M. Landsberg

We study the metric structure of walks on graphs, understood as Lipschitz sequences. To this end, a weighted metric is introduced to handle sequences, enabling the definition of distances between walks based on stepwise vertex distances and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 R. Arnau , A. González Cortés , E. A. Sánchez Pérez , S. Sanjuan

We analyze the coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichm\"uller space, focusing on applications to its synthetic geometry (in particular the behavior of geodesics). We settle the question of the strong relative hyperbolicity of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jeffrey Brock , Howard Masur

We study the metric and topological properties of the space $\mathscr{D}(G)$ of left-invariant hyperbolic pseudometrics on the non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$ that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, up to rough similarity. This space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Eduardo Oregón-Reyes

We study the geometry of metrics and convexity structures on the space of phylogenetic trees, which is here realized as the tropical linear space of all \ ultrametrics. The ${\rm CAT}(0)$-metric of Billera-Holmes-Vogtman arises from the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Bo Lin , Bernd Sturmfels , Xiaoxian Tang , Ruriko Yoshida

Many procedures in science, engineering and medicine produce data in the form of geometric shapes. Mathematically, a shape can be modeled as an un-parameterized immersed sub-manifold, which is the notion of shape used here. Endowing shape…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Philipp Harms

Considering the Teichm\"uller space of a surface equipped with Thurston's Lipschitz metric, we study geodesic segments whose endpoints have bounded combinatorics. We show that these geodesics are cobounded, and that the closest-point…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

We quantitatively relate the Patterson-Sullivant currents and generic stretching factors for free group automorphisms to the asymmetric Lipschitz metric on Outer space and to Guirardel's intersection number.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ilya Kapovich , Martin Lustig

A methodology is developed for data analysis based on empirically constructed geodesic metric spaces. For a probability distribution, the length along a path between two points can be defined as the amount of probability mass accumulated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Kei Kobayashi , Henry P. Wynn

Given a measure on the Thurston boundary of Teichmueller space, one can pick a geodesic ray joining some basepoint to a randomly chosen point on the boundary. Different choices of measures may yield typical geodesics with different…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Vaibhav Gadre , Joseph Maher , Giulio Tiozzo

Metric space magnitude, an active subject of research in algebraic topology, originally arose in the context of biology, where it was used to represent the effective number of distinct species in an environment. In a more general setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Eric Bunch , Daniel Dickinson , Jeffery Kline , Glenn Fung

We prove an analogue of Farb-Masur's theorem that the length-spectra metric on moduli space is "almost isometric" to a simple model $\mathcal {V}(S)$ which is induced by the cone metric over the complex of curves. As an application, we know…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-12-10 Lixin Liu , Weixu Su

Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space. We consider the behavior of probability measures $\mu$ with the property that $$ \int_{X} d(x, y) d\mu(y) \qquad \mbox{is independent of}~x \in X.$$ It appears that such measures, when they exist,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Stefan Steinerberger

A new method of metric space investigation, based on classification of its finite subspaces, is suggested. It admits to derive information on metric space properties which is encoded in metric. The method describes geometry in terms of only…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

This paper investigates self-maps T from X to X which satisfy a distance constraint in a metric space which mixed point-dependent non-expansive properties, or in particular contractive ones, and potentially expansive properties related to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-10-01 M. De La Sen

Many concrete problems are formulated in terms of a finite set of points in $R^n$ which, via the ambient Euclidean metric, becomes a finite metric space. To obtain information from such a space, it is often useful to associate a graph to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Juan M. Alonso

We review some basic concepts related to convex real projective structures from the differential geometry point of view. We start by recalling a Riemannian metric which originates in the study of affine spheres using the Blaschke connection…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Inkang Kim , Athanase Papadopoulos

This short note has been written as an Oberwolfach report for the workshop "Differentialgeometrie im Grossen". We discuss properties of metric spaces that at almost all points admit a tangent metric space. We explain why, under some mild…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-07 Enrico Le Donne

The paper studies a general scheme for constructing metrics on a product of metric spaces by means of a family of continuous convex functions. This construction includes the conventional $p$-metrics and generates metrics that are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Doan Huu Hieu , Vo Minh Tam , Nguyen Duy Cuong