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The geodesic orbit property has been studied intensively for Riemannian manifolds. Geodesic orbit spaces are homogeneous and allow simplifications of many structural questions using the Lie algebra of the isometry group. Weakly symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Zhiqi Chen , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

Left invariant metrics induced by the p-norms of the trace in the matrix algebra are studied on the general lineal group. By means of the Euler-Lagrange equations, existence and uniqueness of extremal paths for the length functional are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-05 Esteban Andruchow , Gabriel Larotonda , Lazaro Recht , Alejandro Varela

The aim of this paper is the study of the geodesic distance in operator groups with several Riemannian metrics. More precisely we study the geodesic distance in self-adjoint operator groups with the left invariant Riemannian metric induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Manuel López Galván

We study how convergence of an observer whose state lives in a copy of the given system's space can be established using a Riemannian metric. We show that the existence of an observer guaranteeing the property that a Riemannian distance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Laurent Praly

In this paper, we consider a Lie group $G$ equipped with two left-invariant Riemannian metrics $g^1$ and $g^2$. Using these two left-invariant Riemannian metrics we define a left-invariant Riemannian metric $\tilde{g}$ on the tangent Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Morteza Hassanvand , Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam

Usual introductions of the concept of motion are not well adapted to a subsequent, strictly tensorial, theory of elasticity. The consideration of arbitrary coordinate systems for the representation of both, the points in the laboratory, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-18 Albert Tarantola

We offer a measure-theoretic extension of the concept and theory of $k$-contraction, including their generalization on fractional dimensions $d$. The respective contraction property is defined through the exponential decay of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-04 A. Matveev , A. Pogromsky

We propose a new metric between probability measures on a compact metric space that mirrors the Riemannian manifold-like structure of quadratic optimal transport but includes entropic regularization. Its metric tensor is given by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Hugo Lavenant , Jonas Luckhardt , Gilles Mordant , Bernhard Schmitzer , Luca Tamanini

We introduce the Langevin deformation for the R\'enyi entropy on the $L^2$-Wasserstein space over $\mathbb{R}^n$ or a Riemannian manifold, which interpolates between the porous medium equation and the Benamou-Brenier geodesic flow on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Rong Lei , Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

The space of deformations of the integer Heisenberg group under the action of $\textrm{Aut}(H(\mathbb{R}))$ is a homogeneous space for a non-reductive group. We analyze its structure as a measurable dynamical system and obtain mean and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Jayadev S. Athreya , Ioannis Konstantoulas

Given an exceptional compact simple Lie group $G$ we describe new left-invariant Einstein metrics which are not naturally reductive. In particular, we consider fibrations of $G$ over flag manifolds with a certain kind of isotropy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Ioannis Chrysikos , Yusuke Sakane

We define a formal Riemannian metric on a given conformal class of metrics on a closed Riemann surface. We show interesting formal properties for this metric, in particular the curvature is nonpositive and the Liouville energy is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Matthew J. Gursky , Jeffrey Streets

For homogeneous higher gradient elasticity models we discuss frame-indifference and isotropy requirements. To this end, we introduce the notions of local versus global SO(3)-invariance and identify frame-indifference (traditionally) with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Ingo Münch , Patrizio Neff

We argue that the Einstein gravity theory can be reformulated in almost Kahler (nonsymmetric) variables with effective symplectic form and compatible linear connection uniquely defined by a (pseudo) Riemannian metric. A class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We obtain new invariant Einstein metrics on the compact Lie groups $SO(n)$ ($n \geq 7$) which are not naturally reductive. This is achieved by imposing certain symmetry assumptions in the set of all left-invariant metrics on $SO(n)$ and by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Yusuke Sakane , Marina Statha

A left invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group is called minimal, if it minimizes the norm of the Ricci tensor among all left invariant metrics with the same scalar curvature. Such metrics are unique up to isometry and scaling and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jorge Lauret

The space of all Riemannian metrics is infinite-dimensional. Nevertheless a great deal of usual Riemannian geometry can be carried over. The superspace of all Riemannian metrics shall be endowed with a class of Riemannian metrics; their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -J. Schmidt

We use the relative modular operator to define a generalized relative entropy for any convex operator function g on the positive real line satisfying g(1) = 0. We show that these convex operator functions can be partitioned into convex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Andrew Lesniewski , Mary Beth Ruskai

Riemannian geometry provides us with powerful tools to explore the latent space of generative models while preserving the underlying structure of the data. The latent space can be equipped it with a Riemannian metric, pulled back from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Alison Pouplin , David Eklund , Carl Henrik Ek , Søren Hauberg

While the fundamental object in Riemannian geometry is a metric, closed string theories call for us to put a two-form gauge field and a scalar dilaton on an equal footing with the metric. Here we propose a novel differential geometry which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-19 Imtak Jeon , Kanghoon Lee , Jeong-Hyuck Park