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In this paper we show that for Riemannian manifolds with boundary the natural restriction map is a quasifibration between spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature. We apply this result to study homotopy properties of spaces of such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladislav Chernysh

We establish a new version of the CR almost Schur Lemma which gives an estimation of the pseudohermitian scalar curvature on a compact strictly pseudoconvex pseudohermitian manifold to be a constant in terms of the norm of the traceless…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Stefan Ivanov , Alexander Petkov

This paper discusses the somewhat unintuitive conjecture that many Lorentz-invariant many-particle models can be reinterpreted to satisfy the gtr field equations. It is shown that a careful remapping of coordinates yields a non-trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Niclas Thisell

We give a generalized curvature-dimension inequality connecting the geometry of sub-Riemannian manifolds with the properties of its sub-Laplacian. This inequality is valid on a large class of sub-Riemannian manifolds obtained from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Erlend Grong , Anton Thalmaier

These notes on Riemannian geometry use the bases bundle and frame bundle, as in Geometry of Manifolds, to express the geometric structures. It has more problems and omits the background material. It starts with the definition of Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Richard L. Bishop

We construct the differential geometry of smooth manifolds equipped with an algebraic curvature map acting as an area measure. Area metric geometry provides a spacetime structure suitable for the discussion of gauge theories and strings,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We give a description of the completion of the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed smooth, closed, finite-dimensional, orientable manifold with respect to a natural metric called the $L^2$ metric. The primary motivation for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Brian Clarke

We considered the most general form of non-static cylindrically symmetric space-times for studying proper curvature symmetry by using the rank of the 6X6 Riemann matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper curvature symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Ghulam Shabbir , M. Ramzan

In this paper we study sectional curvature bounds for Riemannian manifolds with density from the perspective of a weighted torsion free connection introduced recently by the last two authors. We develop two new tools for studying weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Lee Kennard , William Wylie , Dmytro Yeroshkin

A famous theorem of Weyl states that if $M$ is a compact submanifold of euclidean space, then the volumes of small tubes about $M$ are given by a polynomial in the radius $r$, with coefficients that are expressible as integrals of certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Joseph H. G. Fu , Thomas Wannerer

For manifolds with a distinguished asymptotically flat end, we prove a density theorem which produces harmonic asymptotics on the distinguished end, while allowing for points of incompleteness (or negative scalar curvature) away from this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Dan A. Lee , Martin Lesourd , Ryan Unger

Our work proposes a unified approach to three different topics in a general Riemannian setting: splitting theorems, symmetry results and overdetermined elliptic problems. By the existence of a stable solution to the semilinear equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Alberto Farina , Luciano Mari , Enrico Valdinoci

While Einstein's theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must eventually break down. In positive-definite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Robert J. McCann

We prove that various spaces of constrained positive scalar curvature metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary, when not empty, are contractible. The constraints we mostly focus on are given in terms of local conditions on the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Alessandro Carlotto , Chao Li

As a means to better understanding manifolds with positive curvature, there has been much recent interest in the study of non-negatively curved manifolds which contain points at which all 2-planes have positive curvature. We show that there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Martin Kerin

In this paper we extend the Cartan's approach of Riemannian normal coordinates and show that all n-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics are conformal to a flat manifold, when, in normal coordinates, they are well-behaved in the origin and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-06-16 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

We first partially extend a theorem of Topping, on the relation between mean curvature and intrinsic diameter, from immersed submanifolds of $\mathbb{R} ^{n} $ to almost everywhere immersed, closed submanifolds of a compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Yasha Savelyev

We study 3-dimensional non-Riemannian Lorentz geometries, i.e. compact locally homogeneous Lorentz 3-manifolds with non-compact (local) isotropy group. One result is that, up to a finite cover, all such manifolds admit Lorentz metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-29 Sorin Dumitrescu , Abdelghani Zeghib

We investigate connections between pairs of (pseudo-)Riemannian metrics whose sum is a (tensor) product of a covector field with itself. A bijective mapping between the classes of Euclidean and Lorentzian metrics is constructed as a special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

The projective curvature tensor $P$ is invariant under a geodesic preserving transformation on a semi-Riemannian manifold. It is well known that $P$ is not a generalized curvature tensor and hence it possesses different geometric properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Absos Ali Shaikh , Haradhan Kundu