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This paper presents a unified geometric framework for Brownian motion on manifolds, encompassing intrinsic Riemannian manifolds, embedded submanifolds, and Lie groups. The approach constructs the stochastic differential equation by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Taeyoung Lee , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We show that for an isometric immersion of a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive curvature, the norm of the mean curvature vector field is square integrable, then it is minimal. This is a partial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Nobumitsu Nakauchi , Hajime Urakawa

Considering Riemannian submersions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for when sub-Riemannian normal geodesics project to curves of constant first geodesic curvature or constant first and vanishing second geodesic curvatures. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Erlend Grong , Irina Markina

In this paper, we investigate the geometry of the tangent bundle $TM$ of a statistical manifold $(M,g,\nabla)$ endowed with a two-parameter family of generalized Cheeger--Gromoll metrics $g_{p,q}$. We compute the associated the Levi--Civita…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Esmaeil Peyghan , Leila Nourmohammadifar

Lightlike Cartan geometries are introduced as Cartan geometries modelled on the future lightlike cone in Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime. Then, we provide an approach to the study of lightlike manifolds from this point of view. It is stated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Francisco J. Palomo

We study the natural G_2 structure on the unit tangent sphere bundle SM of any given orientable Riemannian 4-manifold M, as it was discovered in \cite{AlbSal}. A name is proposed for the space. We work in the context of metric connections,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Rui Albuquerque

The aim of this paper is to study from the point of view of linear connections the data $(M,\mathcal{D},g,W),$ with $M$ a smooth $(n+p)$ dimensional real manifold, $(\mathcal{D},g)$ a \textit{$n$}\textit{\emph{dimensional semi-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-05 Oana Constantinescu , Mircea Crasmareanu

We begin by studying the Riemannian geometry of the tangent Lie group $TG$ associated with a Lie group $G$ whose commutator subgroup is two-dimensional, equipped with the lift of a left-invariant Riemannian metric on $G$. We establish the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ali Hatami Shahi , Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam

For almost all Riemannian metrics (in the $C^\infty$ Baire sense) on a compact manifold with boundary $(M^{n+1},\partial M)$, $3\leq (n + 1)\leq 7$, we prove that, for any open subset $V$ of $\partial M$, there exists a compact, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Zhichao Wang

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

For a Riemannian manifold $M$, we determine some curvature properties of a tangent bundle equipped with the rescaled metric.The main aim of this paper is to give explicit formulae for the rescaled metric on $TM$, and investigate the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Jian Wang , Yong Wang

A new framework to perturbative quantum gravity is proposed following the geometry of nonholonomic distributions on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. There are considered such distributions and adapted connections, also completely defined by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Let $M$ be complete flat pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous manifold and $\Gamma\subset\Iso(\RR^n_s)$ its fundamental group. We show that $M$ is a trivial fiber bundle $G/\Gamma\to M\to\RR^{n-k}$, where $G$ is the Zariski closure of $\Gamma$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Wolfgang Globke

We prove that if $(M,g)$ is a topological 3-ball with a $C^4$-smooth Riemannian metric $g$, and mean-convex boundary $\partial M$ then knowledge of least areas circumscribed by simple closed curves $\gamma \subset \partial M$ uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Spyros Alexakis , Tracey Balehowsky , Adrian Nachman

This paper proposes a generalized framework with joint normalization which learns lower-dimensional subspaces with maximum discriminative power by making use of the Riemannian geometry. In particular, we model the similarity/dissimilarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Tianci Liu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu

It is well-known that the class of piecewise smooth curves together with a smooth Riemannian metric induces a metric space structure on a manifold. However, little is known about the minimal regularity needed to analyze curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Annegret Y. Burtscher

In the works of A. Ach\'ucarro and P. K. Townsend and also by E. Witten, a duality between three-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theories and gravity was established. In all cases, the results made use of the field equations. In a previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Thiago S. Assimos , Rodrigo F. Sobreiro

A submanifold of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is said to have parallel mean curvature vector if the mean curvature vector field H is parallel as a section of the normal bundle. Submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector are important…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Bang-Yen Chen

An isometric embedding of a graph into a metric space is an embedding of the vertices such that the smallest number of edges connecting any two vertices equals to the distance in the metric space between the images. In this paper, we study…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Shiquan Ren

In this paper, we show that, for a biharmonic hypersurface $(M,g)$ of a Riemannian manifold $(N,h)$ of non-positive Ricci curvature, if $\int_M|H|^2 v_g<\infty$, where $H$ is the mean curvature of $(M,g)$ in $(N,h)$, then $(M,g)$ is minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Nobumitsu Nakauchi , Hajime Urakawa