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It is often easier to study pseudo-Riemannian manifolds by presenting them as surfaces in some ambient space. We propose an algorithm for construction of explicit isometric embeddings of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with symmetries into an…
It seems to be not well known that the metrics of general relativity (GR) can be obtained without integrating Einstein equations. To that, we need only define a unit for GR-interval $\Delta s$, and observe 10 geodesics (out of which at…
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It is shown explicitly that when the characteristic vector field that defines a Godel-type metric is also a Killing vector, there always exist closed timelike or null curves in spacetimes described by such a metric. For these geometries,…
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We consider geometries on the space of Riemannian metrics conformally equivalent to the widely studied Ebin L^2 metric. Among these we characterize a distinguished metric that can be regarded as a generalization of Calabi's metric on the…
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Many modern data analysis algorithms either assume that or are considerably more efficient if the distances between the data points satisfy a metric. These algorithms include metric learning, clustering, and dimensionality reduction.…
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