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Let V be a compact real analytic surface with isolated singularities embedded in $R^N$, and assume its smooth part is equipped with a Riemannian metric that is induced from some analytic Riemannian metric on $R^N$. We prove: 1. Each point…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Daniel Grieser

In this paper, we compute sub-Riemannian limits of Gaussian curvature for a Euclidean $C^2$-smooth surface in the affine group and the group of rigid motions of the Minkowski plane away from characteristic points and signed geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Yong Wang , Sining Wei

We prove a splitting theorem for Riemannian n-manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below by a negative constant and containing certain area-minimising hypersurfaces (Theorem 3). Thus we generalise [25,Theorem 3] by Nunes. This splitting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-05 Vlad Moraru

In this geometrical approach to gravitational lensing theory, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the optical metric of a lens, modelled as a static, spherically symmetric, perfect non-relativistic fluid, in the weak deflection limit. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 G W Gibbons , M C Werner

The $(2k)$-th Gauss-Bonnet curvature is a generalization to higher dimensions of the $(2k)$-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet integrand, it coincides with the usual scalar curvature for $k=1$. The Gauss-Bonnet curvatures are used in theoretical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-19 Mohammed Larbi Labbi

We compute the measure with multiplicity of the set of complex planes intersecting a compact domain in a complex space form. The result is given in terms of the so-called hermitian intrinsic volumes. Moreover, we obtain two different…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-21 Judit Abardia , Eduardo Gallego , Gil Solanes

We use moving frame techniques to derive a notion of curvature for a class of piecewise-smooth Riemannian metrics called Regge metrics, showing that it is a measure that simultaneously satisfies the (weak) Cartan structure equations and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Evan S. Gawlik , Jack McKee

As a continuation of \cite{NSY:local}, we mainly discuss the global structure of two-dimensional locally compact geodesically complete metric spaces with curvature bounded above. We first obtain the result on the Lipschitz homotopy…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Koichi Nagano , Takashi Shioya , Takao Yamaguchi

Sub-Riemannian Geometry is proved to play an important role in many applications, e.g., Mathematical Physics and Control Theory. The simplest example of sub-Riemannian structure is provided by the 3-D Heisenberg group. Sub-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-15 Der-Chen Chang , Irina Markina , Alexander Vasil'ev

Using the idea of the degree of a smooth mapping between two manifolds of the same dimension we present here the topological (homotopical) classification of the mappings between spheres of the same dimension, vector fields, monopole and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-28 Jerzy Szczesny , Marek Biesiada , Marek Szydlowski

Let $X_1,\cdots,X_m$ be vector fields satisfying H\"ormander's Lie bracket generating condition on a smooth manifold $M$. We generalise Connes's tangent groupoid, by constructing a completion of the space $M\times M\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Omar Mohsen

We prove that in a Riemannian manifold $M$, each function whose Hessian is proportional the metric tensor yields a weighted monotonicity theorem. Such function appears in the Euclidean space, the round sphere $S^n$ and the hyperbolic space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Manh Tien Nguyen

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle $E$ of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold $M$. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis Bell

We show with the help of Fermat's principle that every lightlike geodesic in the NUT metric projects to a geodesic of a two-dimensional Riemannian metric which we call the optical metric. The optical metric is defined on a (coordinate) cone…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Mourad Halla , Volker Perlick

A well-known theorem by Ruh and Vilms states that the Laplacian of the Gauss map for a smooth immersion into Euclidean space is given by the covariant derivative of the mean curvature vector field. For hypersurfaces, this implies that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Dongha Lee

Consider a sequence of closed, orientable surfaces of fixed genus $g$ in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with uniform upper bounds on mean curvature and area. We show that on passing to a subsequence and choosing appropriate parametrisations, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-13 Siddartha Gadgil , Harish Seshadri

We prove a Steiner formula for regular surfaces with no characteristic points in 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifolds endowed with an arbitrary smooth volume. The formula we obtain, which is equivalent to a half-tube formula, is of local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Davide Barilari , Tania Bossio

We propose a new strong Riemannian metric on the manifold of (parametrized) embedded curves of regularity $H^s$, $s\in(3/2,2)$. We highlight its close relationship to the (generalized) tangent-point energies and employ it to show that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Elias Döhrer , Philipp Reiter , Henrik Schumacher

Measure contraction properties are generalizations of the notion of Ricci curvature lower bounds in Riemannian geometry to more general metric measure spaces. In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for a Sasakian manifold equipped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Paul W. Y. Lee , Chengbo Li , Igor Zelenko

In this paper, we use the viewpoint of Gromov-Haustorff convergence to give some new comprehension of well known theorem,it is Huber's classification theorem\cite{Huber}\cite{MS}for complete Riemannian surfaces immersed in $\mathbb{R}^n$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Sun Jianxin , Jie Zhou