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We investigate certain $4$-dimensional analogues of the classical $3$-dimensional Dehn's lemma, giving examples where such analogues do or do not hold, in the smooth and topological categories. In particular, we show that an essential…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Arunima Ray , Daniel Ruberman

We define toric contact manifolds in arbitrary codimension and give a description of such manifolds in terms of a kind of labelled polytope embedded into a grassmannian, analogous to the Delzant polytope of a toric symplectic manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Vestislav Apostolov , David M J Calderbank , Paul Gauduchon , Eveline Legendre

Examples show that Riemannian manifolds with almost-Euclidean lower bounds on scalar curvature and Perelman entropy need not be close to Euclidean space in any metric space sense. Here we show that if one additionally assumes an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Robin Neumayer

The systolic ratio of a contact form on a closed three-manifold is the quotient of the square of the shortest period of closed Reeb orbits by the contact volume. We show that every co-orientable contact structure on any closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Alberto Abbondandolo , Barney Bramham , Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Pedro A. S. Salomão

Measure contraction property is one of the possible generalizations of Ricci curvature bound to more general metric measure spaces. In this paper, we discover sufficient conditions for a three dimensional contact subriemannian manifold to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Andrei Agrachev , Paul Lee

The injectivity radius of a manifold is an important quantity, both from a theoretical point of view and in terms of numerical applications. It is the largest possible radius within which all geodesics are unique and length-minimizing. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Ralf Zimmermann , Jakob Stoye

We show that a complete $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with finitely generated first homology has macroscopic dimension $1$ if it satisfies the following "macroscopic curvature" assumptions: every ball of radius $10$ in $M$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Hannah Alpert , Alexey Balitskiy , Larry Guth

We study the links of the Darboux-Halphen-Ramanujan system, with contact geometry, canonical coordinates of some $3$-dimensional Frobenius manifolds and projective connections on Riemann surfaces. One of our important goals is to highlight…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Oumar Wone

We study Riemannian metrics on compact, torsionless, non-geometric $3$-manifolds, i.e. whose interior does not support any of the eight model geometries. We prove a lower bound "\`a la Margulis" for the systole and a volume estimate for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Filippo Cerocchi , Andrea Sambusetti

The space of embedded submanifolds plays an important role in applications such as computational anatomy and shape analysis. We can define two different classes on Riemannian metrics on this space: so-called outer metrics are metrics that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Martins Bruveris

Reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics on spaces of regular curves have been shown to be of importance in the field of mathematical shape analysis. For practical applications, one usually discretizes the space of smooth curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Cerqueira , Emmanuel Hartman , Eric Klassen , Martin Bauer

Given a surface $S$ in a 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifold $M$, we investigate the metric structure induced on $S$ by $M$, in the sense of length spaces. First, we define a coefficient $\widehat K$ at characteristic points that determines…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Daniele Cannarsa

We draw connections between contact topology and Maxwell fields in vacuo on 3-dimensional closed Riemannian submanifolds in 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is accomplished by showing that contact topological methods can be applied…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Shin-itiro Goto

In this short note, we study the injectivity radius bound for three dimensional complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold with good leaf foliations and with bounded curvature up to first order. We obtain the injectivity bound by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Li Ma

We provide a general contractibility criterion for subsets of Riemannian metrics on the disc. For instance, this result applies to the space of metrics that have positive Gauss curvature and make the boundary circle convex (or geodesic).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Alessandro Carlotto , Damin Wu

A long-standing open problem in systolic geometry asks whether a Riemannian metric on the real projective space whose volume equals that of the canonical metric, but is not isometric to it, must necessarily carry a periodic geodesic of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva , Florent Balacheff

We review classical approaches to the problem of isometrically embedding a Riemannian surface into Euclidean 3-space, including coordinate-based approaches exposited by Darboux and Eisenhart, as well as the moving-frames based approaches…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Thomas A. Ivey

Our main result asserts that for any given numbers C and D the class of simply connected closed smooth manifolds of dimension m<7 which admit a Riemannian metric with sectional curvature bounded in absolute value by C and diameter uniformly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wilderich Tuschmann

In this paper we study global distance estimates and uniform local volume estimates in a large class of sub-Riemannian manifolds. Our main device is the generalized curvature dimension inequality introduced by the first and the third author…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Fabrice Baudoin , Michel Bonnefont , Nicola Garofalo , Isidro H. Munive

This paper proves the Giroux Correspondence in dimension three using Heegaard splittings of contact manifolds. In two of the authors earlier paper they proved the Giroux Correspondence for tight contact 3-manifolds via convex Heegaard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Joan Licata , Matthias Scharitzer , Vera Vértesi