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We prove that in metric measure spaces where the entropy functional is K-convex along every Wasserstein geodesic any optimal transport between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments lives on a non-branching set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Tapio Rajala , Karl-Theodor Sturm

A Riemannian manifold is said to be uniformly secure if there is a finite number $s$ such that all geodesics connecting an arbitrary pair of points in the manifold can be blocked by $s$ point obstacles. We prove that the number of geodesics…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Keith Burns , Eugene Gutkin

We prove that a nonempty closed and geodesically convex subset of the $l_{\infty}$ plane $\mathbb{R}^2_{\infty}$ is hyperconvex and we characterize the tight spans of arbitrary subsets of $\mathbb{R}^2_{\infty}$ via this property: Given any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Mehmet Kiliç , Şahin Koçak

We consider a system of $n$ nonlocal interaction evolution equations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a differentiable matrix-valued interaction potential $W$. Under suitable conditions on convexity, symmetry and growth of $W$, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Jonathan Zinsl

For a compact surface $S$ with constant negative curvature $-\kappa$ (for some $\kappa>0$) and genus $g\geq2$, we show that the tails of the distribution of $i(\alpha,\beta)/l(\alpha)l(\beta)$ (where $i(\alpha,\beta)$ is the intersection…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Yoe Alexander Herrera Jaramillo

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

We show that for a generic Riemannian metric on a compact manifold of dimension $n\ge 3$ all geodesic loops based at a fixed point have no self-intersections. We also show that for an open and dense subset of the space of Riemannian metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Hans-Bert Rademacher

We study the set of intersection sizes of a k-dimensional affine subspace and a point set of size m \in [0, 2^n] of the n-dimensional binary affine space AG(n,2). Following the theme of Erd\H{o}s, F\"uredi, Rothschild and T. S\'os, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Benedek Kovács , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

We find an upper bound for geodesic distances associated to monotone Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices and density matrices.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Anna Jencova

The Gardiner-Masur compactification of Teichm\"uller space is homeomorphic to the horofunction compactification of the Teichm\"uller metric. Let $\xi$ and $\eta$ be a pair of boundary points in the Gardiner-Masur compactification that fill…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Xiaoke Lou , Weixu Su , Dong Tan

With inspiration from the K\"ahler geometry, we introduce a metric structure on the energy class, $\mathcal{E}_{1,m}$, of $m$-subharmonic functions with bounded energy and show that it is complete. After studying how the metric convergence…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Per Ahag , Rafal Czyz

We prove a generalization of the hyperplane inequality for intersection bodies, where volume is replaced by an arbitrary measure $\mu$ with even continuous density and sections are of arbitrary dimension $n-k,\ 1\le k <n.$ If $K$ is a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Alexander Koldobsky , Dan Ma

For a proper geodesically complete CAT(-1) space equipped with a discrete non-elementary action, and a bounded continuous potential with the Bowen property, we construct weighted quasi-conformal Patterson densities and use them to build a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Caleb Dilsavor , Daniel J. Thompson

We consider the popular and classical method of alternating projections for finding a point in the intersection of two closed sets. By situating the algorithm in a metric space, equipped only with well-behaved geodesics and angles (in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro López-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

Analysis of the geodesics in the space of signature $(1,3)$ that splits in two-dimensional distributions resulting from the Weyl tensor eignespaces - hyperbolic and elliptic ones - described in [V. Lychagin, V. Yumaguzhin,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Radosław A. Kycia , Maria Ułan

A geodesic bicombing on a metric space selects for every pair of points a geodesic connecting them. We prove existence and uniqueness results for geodesic bicombings satisfying different convexity conditions. In combination with recent work…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Dominic Descombes , Urs Lang

We prove sufficient conditions for the existence of conjugate points along geodesics of a left-invariant metric on a Lie group, using a reformulation of the index form in terms of the adjoint action. In the compact semisimple case, with an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alice Le Brigant , Leandro Lichtenfelz , Stephen C. Preston

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

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of functions on a set $X$. We study the problem of finding a minimal geodesic of the Grassmann manifold of $\mathcal{H}$ that joins two subspaces consisting of functions which vanish…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Esteban Andruchow , Eduardo Chiumiento , Alejandro Varela

For a compact surface $S$ with constant negative curvature $-\kappa$ (for some $\kappa>0$) and genus $g\geq2$, we show that the tails of the distribution of $i(\alpha,\beta)/l(\alpha)l(\beta)$ (where $i(\alpha,\beta)$ is the intersection…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Yoe Alexander Herrera Jaramillo