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Discrete forms of the mean and directed curvature are constructed on piecewise flat manifolds, providing local curvature approximations for smooth manifolds embedded in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The resulting expressions take…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Rory Conboye

We show that a totally geodesic submanifold of a symmetric space satisfying certain conditions admits an extension to a minimal submanifold of dimension one higher, and we apply this result to construct new examples of complete embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Gorodski

Given a compact K\"ahler manifold (X,\omega_0), according to Mabuchi, the set of K\"ahler forms cohomologous to \omega_0 has the natural structure of an infinite dimensional Riemannian manifold. We address the question whether points in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Tamás Darvas , László Lempert

We introduce the equation of n-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds of a manifold E as a submanifold of the second order jet space of n-dimensional submanifolds of E. Next we study the geometry of n-Grassmannian equivalent connections,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gianni Manno

In this paper, we have reintroduced a new approach to conformal geometry developed and presented in two previous papers, in which we show that all n-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics are conformal to a flat n-dimensional manifold as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

In this paper we will show the following result: Let $\mathcal{N} $ be a complete (noncompact) connected orientable Riemannian three-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature $S \geq 0$ and bounded sectional curvature $ K_{s} \leq K $.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Jose M. Espinar

We examine the space of surfaces in $\RR^{3}$ which are complete, properly embedded and have nonzero constant mean curvature. These surfaces are noncompact provided we exclude the case of the round sphere. We prove that the space $\Mk$ of…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Rob Kusner , Rafe Mazzeo , Daniel Pollack

We consider an electrically conductive compact two-dimensional Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary. This setting defines a natural conductive Laplacian on the manifold and hence also voltage potentials, current fields and corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Kim Knudsen , Steen Markvorsen , Hjørdis Schlüter

The following results are proved: Theorem 1. A totally real semiparallel submanifold of constant curvature with parallel f-structure in the normal bundle of a K\"ahler manifold N is flat or a totally geodesic submanifold of N. Theorem 2. A…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-11 Ognian Kassabov

We study the old problem of isometrically embedding a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean 3-space. It is shown that if the Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two Lipschitz curves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

It was conjectured by Bott-Grove-Halperin that a compact simply connected Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonnegative sectional curvature is rationally elliptic. We confirm this conjecture under the stronger assumption that $M$ has entire…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Xiaoyang Chen

Consider a compact manifold $M$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$. Suppose that $g$ and $\tilde{g}$ are two Riemannian metrics on $M$. We construct a family of metrics on $M$ which agrees with $g$ outside a neighborhood of $\partial M$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow

We show that countable metric spaces always have quantum isometry groups, thus extending the class of metric spaces known to possess such universal quantum-group actions. Motivated by this existence problem we define and study the notion of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Alexandru Chirvasitu

For a compact connected Lie group $G$ we study the class of bi-invariant affine connections whose geodesics through $e\in G$ are the 1-parameter subgroups. We show that the bi-invariant affine connections which induce derivations on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Ioannis Chrysikos

We show that in a locally compact complete $CAT(0)$ space satisfying positive angles property and a disintegration regularity for its canonical Hausdorff measure, there exists a unique optimal transport map that push-forwards a given…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Arian Bërdëllima

In this paper we show that on a complete Riemannian manifold of negative curvature and dimension $n>1$ every two points which realize a local maximum for the distance function are connected by at least $2n+1$ geometrically distinct geodesic…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Paul Horja

A fundamental result in global analysis and nonlinear elasticity asserts that given a solution $\mathfrak{S}$ to the Gauss--Codazzi--Ricci equations over a simply-connected closed manifold $(\mathcal{M}^n,g)$, one may find an isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Siran Li , Xiangxiang Su

We study metric properties of manifolds with conic singularities and present a natural interplay between metrically conic and metrically asymptotically conic behaviour. As a consequence, we prove that a singular sub-manifold is Lipschitz…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-10 André Costa , Vincent Grandjean , Maria Michalska

Motivated by the well-known cases of the real Hilbert ball and complete R-trees, being both particular cases of CAT(-1) spaces, we give an affirmative answer to the question of whether the geodesically boundedness property is a necessary…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Bozena Piatek

The local geometry of a Riemannian symmetric space is described completely by the Riemannian metric and the Riemannian curvature tensor of the space. In the present article I describe how to compute these tensors for any Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-15 Sebastian Klein