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We address the question of whether a Riemannian manifold-with-boundary (M,g) in dimension two is uniquely determined from knowledge of the distances between points on its boundary. An affirmative answer is called boundary rigidity for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Spyros Alexakis , Matti Lassas

We study scattering rigidity for Hamiltonian systems on $T^*M\setminus 0$, where $M$ is a manifold with boundary equipped with a positively homogeneous Hamiltonian function $H(x,\xi)$. We show that $H$ can be uniquely determined by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , Plamen Stefanov

In this paper we prove that the space of flat metrics (nonpositively curved Euclidean cone metrics) on a closed, oriented surface is marked length spectrally rigid. In other words, two flat metrics assigning the same lengths to all closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Anja Bankovic , Christopher J. Leininger

This paper investigates the rigidity of bordered polyhedral surfaces. Using the variational principle, we show that bordered polyhedral surfaces are determined by boundary value and discrete curvatures on the interior edges. As a corollary,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Te Ba , Shengyu Li , Yaping Xu

In this paper, we consider a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, endowed with a magnetic potential $\alpha$ and a potential $U$. For brevity, this type of systems are called $\MP$-systems. On simple $\MP$-systems, we consider both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Yernat M. Assylbekov , Hanming Zhou

In this paper, we study rigidity problems between Lyapunov exponents along periodic orbits and geometric structures. More specifically, we prove that for a surface M without focal points, if the value of the Lyapunov exponents is constant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Nestor Nina Zarate , Sergio Romaña

We obtain the geodesics for the simplest possible stealth defect which has a flat spacetime. We, then, discuss the lensing properties of such a defect, and the corresponding image formation. Similar lensing properties can be expected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-01 F. R. Klinkhamer , Z. L. Wang

We analyse the scattering operator associated with the defocusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation which captures the evolution of solutions over an infinite time-interval under the nonlinear flow of this equation. The asymptotic nature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Rémi Carles , Georg Maierhofer

We study the orthospectrum and the simple orthospectrum of compact hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary. We show that there are finitely many hyperbolic surfaces sharing the same simple orthospectrum and finitely many hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Nolwenn Le Quellec

We consider an adhesive contact between a thin soft layer on a rigid substrate and a rigid cylindrical indenter ("line contact") with account of the surface tension of the layer. First, it is shown that the boundary condition for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-06 Valentin L. Popov

Let $M$ be a smooth compact surface of nonpositive curvature, with genus $\geq 2$. We prove the ergodicity of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of $M$ with respect to the Liouville measure under the condition that the set of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Weisheng Wu

We show that, on an oriented compact surface, two sufficiently $C^2$-close Riemannian metrics with strictly convex boundary, no conjugate points, hyperbolic trapped set for their geodesic flows, and same marked boundary distance, are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Colin Guillarmou , Marco Mazzucchelli

We study the scattering rigidity problem in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation known on a lateral timelike boundary. We show that one can recover the jet of the metric up to a gauge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Plamen Stefanov

In this article, we present an analysis of the stability of optical lattices. Starting with the study of an unstable optical lattice, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for intrinsic phase stability, and discuss two practical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Di Domenico , N. Castagna , M. D. Plimmer , P. Thomann , A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin

We consider a smooth Euclidean solid cone endowed with a smooth homogeneous density function used to weight Euclidean volume and hypersurface area. By assuming convexity of the cone and a curvature-dimension condition we prove that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Antonio Cañete , César Rosales

We prove that for compact, non-contractible, one dimensional geodesic spaces, a version of the marked length spectrum conjecture holds. For a compact one dimensional geodesic space X, we define a subspace Conv(X). When X is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 David Constantine , Jean-François Lafont

Starting from well-known absolute instruments for perfect imaging, we introduce a type of rotational-symmetrical compact closed manifolds, namely geodesic lenses. We demonstrate that light rays confined on geodesic lenses are closed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Lin Xu , Xiangyang Wang , Tomáš Tyc , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu , Huanyang Chen

A rigidity theory is developed for frameworks in a metric space with two types of distance constraints. Mixed sparsity graph characterisations are obtained for the infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of completely regular bar-joint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Anthony Nixon , Stephen Power

A fundamental theorem of Laman characterises when a bar-joint framework realised generically in the Euclidean plane admits a non-trivial continuous deformation of its vertices. This has recently been extended in two ways. Firstly to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze

The aim of this work is the study of geodesics on Lorentzian homogeneous spaces of the form $M=G/\Lambda$, where $G$ is a solvable Lie group endowed with a bi-invariant Lorentzian metric and $\Lambda < G$ is a cocompact lattice. Conditions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Pablo Montenegro , Gabriela P. Ovando