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Let X be a complete hyperbolic surface of finite area. We establish that the intersection points of closed geodesics with length <T are equidistributed on X as T goes to infinity.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Tina Torkaman

The goal of this paper is to describe and clarify as much as possible the 3-dimensional topology underlying the Helmholtz cuts method, which occurs in a wide theoretic and applied literature about Electromagnetism, Fluid dynamics and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-26 Riccardo Benedetti , Roberto Frigerio , Riccardo Ghiloni

Strong hyperbolicity is a coarse notion of negative curvature, stronger than Gromov hyperbolicity, that includes all CAT(-k) metrics for k positive and allows the use of dynamical techniques available in negative curvature, such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Meenakshy Jyothis , Dídac Martínez-Granado

We consider compact connected minimal surfaces, with a pair of boundary curves (not necessarily convex) in distinct planes, that have least-area amongst all orientable surfaces with the same boundary. When the planes containing these two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Wayne Rossman

In this paper we consider Jordan curves on the Riemann sphere passing through $n \ge 3$ given points. We show that in each relative isotopy class of such curves, there exists a unique curve that minimizes the Loewner energy. These curves…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mario Bonk , Janne Junnila , Steffen Rohde , Yilin Wang

We continue the variational approach to parabolic trajectories introduced in our previous paper [5], which sees parabolic orbits as minimal phase transitions. We deepen and complete the analysis in the planar case for homogeneous singular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Vivina Barutello , Susanna Terracini , Gianmaria Verzini

For a hyperbolic surface S of finite type we consider the set A(S) of angles between closed geodesics on S. Our main result is that there are only finitely many rational multiples of \pi in A(S).

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Sugata Mondal

For every proper geodesic space $X$ we introduce its quasi-geometric boundary $\partial_{QG}X$ with the following properties: 1. Every geodesic ray $g$ in $X$ converges to a point of the boundary $\partial_{QG}X$ and for every point $p$ in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jerzy Dydak , Hussain Rashed

Let $M$ be a simply connected Riemannian manifold in $\mathscr{M}_{k,v}^D(n)$, the space of closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension $n$ with sectional curvature bounded below by $k$, volume bounded below by $v$, and diameter bounded above…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Isabel Beach , Haydeé Contreras Peruyero , Regina Rotman , Catherine Searle

Every oriented closed geodesic on the modular surface has a canonically associated knot in its unit tangent bundle coming from the periodic orbit of the geodesic flow. We study the volume of the associated knot complement with respect to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-07 José Andrés Rodríguez Migueles

We prove the Morse relations for the set of all geodesics connecting two non-conjugate points on a class of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. We overcome the difficulties coming from the fact that the Morse index of every geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-23 Alberto Abbondandolo , Pietro Majer

Geodesics are the shortest curves between any two points on a given surface. Geodesics in the state space of quantum systems play an important role in the theory of geometric phases, as these are also the curves along which the acquired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Vikash Mittal , Akhilesh K. S. , Sandeep K. Goyal

We find an upper bound for the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic metric space with a set of geodesics satisfying a certain boundedness condition studied by Bowditch. The primary example is a collection of tight geodesics on the curve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gregory Bell , Koji Fujiwara

Given a Riemannian metric on the 2-sphere, sweep the 2-sphere out by a continuous one-parameter family of closed curves starting and ending at point curves. Pull the sweepout tight by, in a continuous way, pulling each curve as tight as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set $X$, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset $Y \subseteq X$, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas , Melchior Wirth

We give a Morse-theoretic characterization of simple closed geodesics on Riemannian $2$-spheres. On any Riemannian $2$-sphere endowed with a generic metric, we show there exists a simple closed geodesic with Morse index $1$, $2$ and $3$. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Dongyeong Ko

We consider the problem $\min\int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{1}{2}|\dot{\gamma}|^2+W(\gamma)\mathop{}\mathopen{}\mathrm{d} t $ among curves connecting two given wells of $W\geq 0$ and we reduce it, following a standard method, to a geodesic problem…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Antonin Monteil , Filippo Santambrogio

For a Kobayashi hyperbolic domain, Abate introduced the notion of small and big horospheres of a given radius at a boundary point with a pole. In this article, we investigate which domains have the property that closed big horospheres and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Vikramjeet Singh Chandel , Nishith Mandal

Given a sweepout of a Riemannian 2-sphere which is composed of curves of length less than L, we construct a second sweepout composed of curves of length less than L which are either constant curves or simple curves. This result, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Gregory R. Chambers , Yevgeny Liokumovich

We consider here a generalization of a well known discrete dynamical system produced by the bisection of reflection angles that are constructed recursively between two lines in the Euclidean plane. It is shown that similar properties of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Nikolai A. Krylov , Edwin L. Rogers