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We discuss the heat content asymptotics associated with the heat flow out of a smooth compact manifold in a larger compact Riemannian manifold. Although there are no boundary conditions, the corresponding heat content asymptotics involve…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-27 M. van den Berg , P. Gilkey

We prove a persistence result for noncompact normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds in Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry. The bounded geometry of the ambient manifold is a crucial assumption in order to control the uniformity of all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Jaap Eldering

We prove that if two closed, connected, regular cosymplectic manifolds have isomorphic groups of cosymplectomorphisms (as topological groups), then the underlying manifolds are diffeomorphic. The proof proceeds by characterizing the Reeb…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Etienne Djoukeng , Stephane Tchuiaga

The geometrical diffraction theory, in the sense of Keller,is here reconsidered as an obstacle problem in the Riemannian geometry. The first result is the proof of the existence and the analysis of the main properties of the diffracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico De Micheli , Giacomo Monti Bragadin , Giovanni Alberto Viano

We examine the relationship between the singular set of a compact Riemannian orbifold and the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian on $p$-forms by computing the heat invariants associated to the $p$-spectrum. We show that the heat invariants of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Katie Gittins , Carolyn Gordon , Magda Khalile , Ingrid Membrillo Solis , Mary Sandoval , Elizabeth Stanhope

There was proposed the method of a factorization of PDE. The method is based on reduction of complicated systems to more easy ones (for example, due to dimension decrease). This concept is proposed in general case for the arbitrary PDE…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marina Prokhorova

We prove that Riemannian foliations on complete contractible manifolds have a closed leaf, and that all leaves are closed if one closed leaf has a finitely generated fundamental group. Under additional topological or geometric assumptions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Luis Florit , Oliver Goertsches , Alexander Lytchak , Dirk Toeben

We show that smooth isoperimetric profiles are exceptional for real analytic Riemannian manifolds. For instance, under some extra assumption, this can happen only on topological spheres.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-25 Renata Grimaldi , Stefano Nardulli , Pierre Pansu

Given a finite group action on a smooth manifold, we study the following question: if two equivariant diffeomorphisms are isotopic, must they be equivariantly isotopic? Birman-Hilden and Maclachlan-Harvey proved the answer is "yes" for most…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Trent Lucas

We deal with seven dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature which admit a cohomogeneity one action by a compact Lie group G. We prove that the manifold is diffeomorphic to a sphere if the dimension of the semisimple…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabio Podesta , Luigi Verdiani

We show that the group of isometries (i.e., distance-preserving homeomorphisms) of an equiregular subRiemannian manifold is a finite-dimensional Lie group of smooth transformations. The proof is based on a new PDE argument, in the spirit of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Luca Capogna , Enrico Le Donne

To a closed Riemannian manifold, we associate a set of (special values of) a family of Dirichlet series, indexed by functions on the manifold. We study the meaning of equality of two such families of spectral Dirichlet series under pullback…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-02 Gunther Cornelissen , Jan Willem de Jong

We consider the heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the tubular neighborhood of a closed Riemannian submanifold. We show that, as the tube radius decreases, the semigroup of a suitably rescaled and renormalized generator can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-29 O. Wittich

We prove that a Riemannian submersion between smooth, compact, non-negatively curved Riemannian manifolds has to be smooth, resolving a conjecture by Berestovskii--Guijarro. We show that without any curvature assumption, the smoothness of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Alexander Lytchak , Burkhard Wilking

The equivalence problem of curves with values in a Riemannian manifold, is solved. The domain of validity of Frenet's theorem is shown to be the spaces of constant curvature. For a general Riemannian manifold new invariants must thus be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-20 M. Castrillon Lopez , V. Fernandez Mateos , J. Munoz Masque

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a closed smooth 6-manifold N to be diffeomorphic to a product of a surface F and a simply connected 4-manifold M in terms of basic invariants like the fundamental group and cohomological data.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Ian Hambleton , Matthias Kreck

We investigate manifolds obtained as a quotient of a doubly warped product. We show that they are always covered by the product of two suitable leaves. This allows us to prove, under regularity hypothesis, that these manifolds are a doubly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Manuel Gutiérrez , Benjamín Olea

It was shown by Seaman that if a compact, oriented 4-dimensional riemannian manifold (M, g) of positive sectional curvature admits a harmonic 2-form of constant length, its intersection form is definite and such a harmonic form is unique up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Inyoung Kim

We prove:(1) the existence, for every integer n > 3, of a noncompact smooth n-dimensional topological manifold whose diffeomorphism group contains an isomorphic copy of every finitely presented group; (2) a finiteness theorem on finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Vladimir L. Popov

We present an intrinsic reconstruction of Riemannian geometry from a symmetric, strongly local diffusion semigroup. Starting from a diffusion operator and its associated first- and second-order diffusion calculus, we recover the full…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Amandip Sangha