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Approximate symmetries of geodesic equations on 2-spheres are studied. These are the symmetries of the perturbed geodesic equations which represent approximate path of a particle rather than exact path. After giving the exact symmetries of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 K. Saifullah , K. Usman

The method of geodesic deviations provides analytic approximations to geodesics in arbitrary background space-times. As such the method is a useful tool in many practical situations. In this note we point out some subtleties in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 G. Koekoek , J. W. van Holten

We compute the length of geodesics on a Riemannian manifold by regular polynomial interpolation of the global solution of the eikonal equation related to the line element $ds^2=g_{ij}dx^idx^j$ of the manifold. Our algorithm approximates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-12 Joerg Kampen

The geodesic complexity of a Riemannian manifold is a numerical isometry invariant that is determined by the structure of its cut loci. In this article we study decompositions of cut loci over whose components the tangent cut loci fiber in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

It is known that for a variety of choices of metrics, including the standard bottleneck distance, the space of persistence diagrams admits geodesics. Typically these existence results produce geodesics that have the form of a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Samir Chowdhury

Closed geodesic lines on an ellipsoid in d-dimensional Euclidean space are considered. Explicit algebro-geometric condition for closedness of such a geodesic is given. The obtained condition is discussed in light of theta-functions theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

The equations of motion of a charged ideal fluid, respectively the superconductivity equation (both in a given magnetic field) are showed to be geodesic equations on a general, respectively central extension of the group of volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Cornelia Vizman

We propose a multiscale method for elliptic problems on complex domains, e.g. domains with cracks or complicated boundary. For local singularities this paper also offers a discrete alternative to enrichment techniques such as XFEM. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Daniel Elfverson , Mats G. Larson , Axel Målqvist

We write down estimates for the surface area, and more generally, integral mean curvatures of an ellipsoid E in n-dimensional Euclidean space in terms of the lengths of the major semi-axes. We give applications to estimating the area of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

This is a study of a problem in geodesy with methods from complex algebraic geometry: for a fixed number of measure points and target points at unknown position in the Euclidean plane, we study the problem of determining their relative…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Josef Schicho , Matteo Gallet

Solid Earth tide represents the response of solid Earth to the lunar (solar) gravitational force. The yielding solid Earth due to the force has been thought to be a prolate ellipsoid since the time of Lord Kelvin, yet the ellipsoid's…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Yongfeng Yang , Yunfei Zhang , Qiang Liu , Xianqing Lv , Pu Huang

We survey recent results on inverse problems for geodesic X-ray transforms and other linear and non-linear geometric inverse problems for Riemannian metrics, connections and Higgs fields defined on manifolds with boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Joonas Ilmavirta , François Monard

We investigate equatorial geodesics in the gravitational field of a rotating and deformed source described by the approximate Hartle-Thorne metric. In the case of massive particles, we derive within the same approximation analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Kuantay Boshkayev , Hernando Quevedo , Marzhan Abutalip , Zhanerke Kalymova , Sharara Suleymanova

Starting with an exact and simple geodesic, we generate approximate geodesics by summing up higher-order geodesic deviations within a General Relativistic setting, without using Newtonian and post-Newtonian approximations. We apply this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Colistete , C. Leygnac , R. Kerner

Geodesics become an essential element of the geometry of a semi-Riemannian manifold. In fact, their differences and similarities with the (positive definite) Riemannian case, constitute the first step to understand semi-Riemannian Geometry.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Anna Maria Candela , Miguel Sánchez

This work gives an expository account of certain applications of microlocal analysis in three geometric inverse problems. We will discuss the geodesic X-ray transform inverse problem, the Gelfand problem for the wave equation on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Mikko Salo

There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Wenrui Hao , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan , Tingting Tang

Mass redistribution on Earth due to dynamic processes such as ice melting and sea level rise leads to a changing gravitational field, observable by geodetic techniques. Monitoring this change over time allows us to learn more about our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Eva Hackmann , Moritz Huckfeldt , Claus Lämmerzahl , Dennis Philipp , Benny Rievers

We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning tasks or the logarithm of the probability distribution in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-20 Marcelo Hartmann , Bernardo Williams , Hanlin Yu , Mark Girolami , Alessandro Barp , Arto Klami

Regularity theory for diffusive operators is among the finest treasures of the modern mathematical sciences. It appears in several different fields, such as, differential geometry, topology, numerical analysis, dynamical systems,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Eduardo V. Teixeira