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Geometric mechanics models of locomotion have provided insight into how robots and animals use environmental interactions to convert internal shape changes into displacement through the world, encoding this relationship in a ``motility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ross L. Hatton , Yousef Salaman , Shai Revzen

Most research into similarity search in metric spaces relies upon the triangle inequality property. This property allows the space to be arranged according to relative distances to avoid searching some subspaces. We show that many common…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Richard Connor , Franco Alberto Cardillo , Lucia Vadicamo , Fausto Rabitti

We study the geometry of the Thurston metric on Teichmuller space by examining its geodesics and comparing them to Teichmuller geodesics. We show that, similar to a Teichmuller geodesic, the shadow of a Thurston geodesic to the curve graph…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

In spacetime physics, we frequently need to consider a set of all spaces (`universes') as a whole. In particular, the concept of `closeness' between spaces is essential. However, there has been no established mathematical theory so far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Masafumi Seriu

This note is a contribution to large scale geometry. More precisely, we introduce the intrinsically quasi-isometric sections in metric spaces and we investigate their properties: the Ahlfors-David regularity in large scale; following…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Daniela Di Donato

We introduced the concept of a metric value set (MVS) in an earlier paper \cite{GM} and developed the idea further in \cite{AS}. In this paper we study locally $M$-metrizable spaces and the products of $M$-metrizable spaces. Finally we…

General Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Olli Hella

Inspired by Goette-Semmelmann \cite{GSSU2002}, we derive an estimate for the scalar curvature without a nonnegativity assumption on curvature operator. As an application, we show that, on an even dimensional closed manifold with nonzero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Yukai Sun , Changliang Wang

Let X be quasi-isometric to either the mapping class group equipped with the word metric, or to Teichmuller space equipped with either the Teichmuller metric or the Weil-Petersson metric. We introduce a unified approach to study the coarse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alex Eskin , Howard Masur , Kasra Rafi

In this paper we define the magnitude of metric spaces using measures rather than finite subsets as had been done previously and show that this agrees with earlier work with Leinster in arXiv:0908.1582. An explicit formula for the magnitude…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Simon Willerton

A metric on the space of collider physics data enables analysis of its geometrical properties, like dimensionality or curvature, as well as quantifying the density with which a finite, discrete ensemble of data samples the space. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Andrew J. Larkoski

A number of topics involving metrics and measures are discussed, including some of the special structure associated with ultrametrics.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Stephen Semmes

In this paper we examine two basic topological properties of partial metric spaces, namely compactness and completeness. Our main result claims that in these spaces compactness is equivalent to sequential compactness. We also show that…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Dariusz Bugajewski , Piotr Maćkowiak , Ruidong Wang

A definition of space-time metric deformations on an $n$-dimensional manifold is given. We show that such deformations can be regarded as extended conformal transformations. In particular, their features can be related to the perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , C. Stornaiolo

Geometrical objects describing the material geometry of continuously defective graphene sheets are introduced and their compatibility conditions are formulated. Effective edge dislocations embedded in the Riemann-Cartan material space and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-31 Andrzej Trzesowski

Let $\mathrm{Out}(F_n)$ be the outer automorphism group of the free group $F_n$. It acts properly on the outer space $X_n$ of marked metric graphs, which is a finite-dimensional infinite simplicial complex with some simplicial faces…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Lizhen Ji

Second order Sobolev metrics on the space of regular unparametrized planar curves have several desirable completeness properties not present in lower order metrics, but numerics are still largely missing. In this paper, we present…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Philipp Harms , Jakob Møller-Andersen

In this paper we offer a metric similar to graph edit distance which measures the distance between two (possibly infinite)weighted graphs with finite norm (we define the norm of a graph as the sum of absolute values of its edges). The main…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-16 Hamed Daneshpajouh , Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh , Farzad Didehvar

We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the "hyperbolic directions" in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Matthew Cordes

The Thurston metric on Teichmuller space, first introduced by W. P. Thurston is an asymmetric metric on Teichmuller space defined by $d_{Th}(X,Y) = \frac12 log\sup_{\alpha} \frac{l_{\alpha}(Y)}{l_{\alpha}(X)}$. This metric is geodesic, but…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Assaf Bar-Natan

A 3-dimensional graph-manifold is composed from simple blocks which are products of compact surfaces with boundary by the circle. Its global structure may be as complicated as one likes and is described by a graph which might be an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Buyalo