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The elastic flow, which is the $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy, has several applications in geometry and elasticity theory. We present stable discretizations for the elastic flow in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We establish a rigidity result for the unstable foliations of transitive Anosov flows on 3-manifolds: if the unstable foliations of two such flows are equivalent (that is, if there exists a homeomorphism mapping one foliation to the other),…

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The sharp isoperimetric inequality for non-compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth has been obtained in increasing generality with different approaches in a number of contributions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Fabio Cavalletti , Davide Manini

In this paper, we prove that if the geodesic flow of a complete manifold without conjugate points with sectional curvatures bounded below by $-c^2$ is of Anosov type, then the constant of contraction of the flow is $\geq e^{-c}$. Moreover,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Ítalo Dowell , Sergio Romaña

We consider the inverse problem of determining coefficients appearing in semilinear elliptic equations stated on Riemannian manifolds with boundary given the knowledge of the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We begin with a negative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Ali Feizmohammadi , Yavar Kian , Lauri Oksanen

We are concerned with rigidity properties of steady Euler flows in two-dimensional bounded annuli. We prove that in an annulus, a steady flow with no interior stagnation point and tangential boundary conditions is a circular flow, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Yuchen Wang , Weicheng Zhan

For the Bach-flat closed manifold with positive scalar curvature, we prove a rigidity result under a given inequality involving the Weyl curvature and the traceless Ricci curvature. Moveover, under an inequality involving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Guangyue Huang

Let ${\bf M}$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and the metrics $g=g(t)$ evolve by the Ricci flow. We prove the following result. The Sobolev imbedding by Aubin or Hebey, perturbed by a scalar curvature term and modulo sharpness of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-29 Qi S. Zhang

For complete Riemannian manifolds with vanishing Bach tensor and positive constant scalar curvature, we provide a rigidity theorem characterized by some pointwise inequalities. Furthermore, we prove some rigidity results under an inequality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Bingqing Ma , Guangyue Huang

Steady incompressible potential flows of an inviscid or viscous fluid are considered in infinite N-dimensional cylinders with tangential boundary conditions. We show that such flows, if away from stagnation, are constant and parallel to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 François Hamel , Aram Karakhanyan

We prove that if $M$ is a closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold, $n \ge 3$, with ${\rm Ric}\ge n-1$ and for which the optimal constant in the critical Sobolev inequality equals the one of the $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Francesco Nobili , Ivan Yuri Violo

In this paper we show that steady states $u$ of the pressureless Euler equation which belong to $L^3_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^2,\mathbb{R}^2)$ are shear flows. This is achieved by combining results of degenerate Monge-Amp\`ere-type equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Riccardo Tione

Let $g$ be a Riemannian metric for $\mathbf{R}^d$ ($d\geq 3$) which differs from the Euclidean metric only in a smooth and strictly convex bounded domain $M$. The lens rigidity problem is concerned with recovering the metric $g$ inside $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Gang Bao , Hai Zhang

In this article we prove that stochastic differential equation (SDE) with Sobolev drift on compact Riemannian manifold admits a unique $\nu$-almost everywhere stochastic invertible flow, where $\nu$ is the Riemannian measure, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

In this paper, we establish a Liouville type rigidity result for a class of asymptotically hyperbolic non-compact Einstein metrics defined on manifolds of dimension $d\ge 5$ extending the earlier result in dimension $d=4$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Yuxin Ge , Sun-Yung Alice Chang

By using the Ricci flow, we study local rigidity theorems regarding scalar curvature, isoperimetric constant and best constant of $L^2$ logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Precisely, we prove that if a metric $g$ on an open set $V$ in an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Liang Cheng

In this paper, we consider some rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of some known quadratic curvature functionals on complete manifolds, characterized by some point-wise inequalities. Moreover, we also provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Guangyue Huang , Yu Chen , Xingxiao Li

In this paper, we prove a rigidity theorem for Poincar\'e-Einstein manifolds whose conformal infinity is a flat Euclidean space. The proof relies on analyzing the propagation of curvature tensors over the level sets of an adapted boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Sanghoon Lee , Fang Wang

In this paper, we consider a compact Riemannian manifold whose boundary is endowed with a Riemannian flow. Under a suitable curvature assumption depending on the O'Neill tensor of the flow, we prove that any solution of the basic Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Fida El Chami , Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib , Roger Nakad

We establish a rigidity theorem for Brendle and Hung's recent systolic inequality, which involves Gromov's notion of \(T^{\rtimes}\)-stabilized scalar curvature. Our primary technique is the construction of foliations by free boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yipeng Wang