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In this paper, we present new results on the Riemannian geometry of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices. First, based on an existing approximation of the geodesic path, we introduce approximations of the logarithmic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Or Yair , Almog Lahav , Ronen Talmon

Riemannian geometry provides us with powerful tools to explore the latent space of generative models while preserving the underlying structure of the data. The latent space can be equipped it with a Riemannian metric, pulled back from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Alison Pouplin , David Eklund , Carl Henrik Ek , Søren Hauberg

In the context of mathematical cosmology, the study of necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-Riemannian manifold to be a (generalised) Robertson-Walker space-time is important. In particular, it is a requirement for the development…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Kostas Tzanavaris , Pau Amaro Seoane

Generalized Berwald manifolds are Finsler manifolds admitting linear connections such that the parallel transports preserve the Finslerian length of tangent vectors. By the fundamental result of the theory \cite{V5} such a linear connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Csaba Vincze

We study the recovery of geometric structure from data generated by convolving the uniform measure on a smooth compact submanifold $M\subset\mathbb{R}^D$ with ambient Gaussian noise. Our main result is that several fundamental Riemannian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Junhao Chen , Ruowei Li , Zhigang Yao

The difference tensor R.C-C.R of a semi-Riemannian manifold (M,g), dim M > 3, formed by its Riemannian-Christoffel curvature tensor R and the Weyl conformal curvature tensor C, under some assumptions, can be expressed as a linear…

This paper gives a survey of methods for the construction of space-frequency concentrated frames on Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvature, and the applications of these frames to the analysis of function spaces. In this general…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Hans G. Feichtinger , Hartmut Führ , Isaac Z. Pesenson

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in itself, and it plays a key role in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Zhiqi Chen , Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

On a Riemannian almost product manifold $(M,P,g)$ we consider a linear connection preserving the almost product structure $P$ and the Riemannian metric $g$ and having a totally skew-symmetric torsion. We determine the class of the manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Dimitar Mekerov , Mancho Manev

Using approximate symmetry methods for differential equations we have investigated the exact and approximate symmetries of a Lagrangian for the geodesic equations in the Kerr spacetime. Taking Minkowski spacetime as the exact case, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Ibrar Hussain , F. M. Mahomed , Asghar Qadir

All spherically symmetric Riemannian metrics of constant scalar curvature in any dimension can be written down in a simple form using areal coordinates. All spherical metrics are conformally flat, so we search for the conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Patryk Mach , Niall Ó Murchadha

Given a space it is easy to obtain the system of geodesic equations on it. In this paper the inverse problem of reconstructing the space from the geodesic equations is addressed. A procedure is developed for obtaining the metric tensor from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 E. Fredericks , F. M. Mahomed , E. Momoniat , Asghar Qadir

In this paper, a Riemannian geometry of noncommutative super surfaces is developed which generalizes [4] to the super case. The notions of metric and connections on such noncommutative super surfaces are introduced and it is shown that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Yong Wang , Tong Wu

We present a new method for classifying naturally reductive homogeneous spaces -- i.\,e.~homogeneous Riemannian manifolds admitting a metric connection with skew torsion that has parallel torsion \emph{and} curvature. This method is based…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Ilka Agricola , Ana Cristina Ferreira , Thomas Friedrich

In this paper we study geodesics of left-invariant sub-Riemannian metrics on SO(3) and almost-Riemannian metrics on $S^2$. These structures are connected with each other, and it is possible to use information about one of them to obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-05 I. Yu. Beschastnyi , Yu. L. Sachkov

In this paper, first, we recall the notion of Clairaut Riemannian map (CRM) ${F}$ using a geodesic curve on the base manifold and give the Ricci equation. We also show that if base manifold of CRM is space form then leaves of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Murat Polat , Kiran Meena

We present a nonlinear post-Friedmann framework for structure formation, generalizing to cosmology the weak-field (post-Minkowskian) approximation, unifying the treatment of small and large scales. We consider a universe filled with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 Irene Milillo , Daniele Bertacca , Marco Bruni , Andrea Maselli

Convexity properties of Weil-Petersson geodesics on the Teichm\"{u}ller space of punctured Riemann surfaces are investigated. A normal form is presented for the Weil-Petersson Levi-Civita connection for pinched hyperbolic metrics. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Scott A. Wolpert

In recent papers, a few physicists studying Black Hole perturbation theory in General Relativity have tried to construct the initial part of a differential sequence based on the Kerr metric, using methods similar to the ones they already…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 J. -F. Pommaret

In this paper we discuss curvature tensors in the context of Absolute Parallelism geometry. Different curvature tensors are expressed in a compact form in terms of the torsion tensor of the canonical connection. Using the Bianchi identities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nabil L. Youssef , Amr M. Sid-Ahmed