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We study a class of fourth order curvature flows on a compact Riemannian manifold, which includes the gradient flows of a number of quadratic geometric functionals, as for instance the L2 norm of the curvature. Such flows can develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-03 Vincent Bour

Several results from differential geometry of hypersurfaces in R^n are derived to form a tool box for the direct mapping method. The latter technique has been widely employed to solve problems with moving interfaces, and to study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett

This paper is concerned with a fourth order nonlinear dispersive partial differential equation for closed curve flow on a K\"ahler manifold. The main results is that the initial value problem has a solution locally in time if the K\"ahler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Eiji Onodera

For each $n\in\mathbb{Z}^+$, we show the existence of Venice masks (i.e. intransitive sectional-Anosov flows with dense periodic orbits) containing $n$ equilibria on certain compact 3-manifolds. These examples are characterized because of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-28 S. Bautista , A. M. López , H. M. Sánchez

Consider a symplectic map which possesses a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold of any even dimension with transverse homoclinic channels. We develop a topological shadowing argument to prove the existence of Arnold diffusion along the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Andrew Clarke , Jacques Fejoz , Marcel Guardia

This paper gives a topological characterization of Hamiltonian flows with finitely many singular points on compact surfaces, using the concept of ``demi-caract\'eristique'' in the sense of Poincar\'e. Furthermore, we describe the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Tomoo Yokoyama

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

A {\em singular hyperbolic attractor} for flows is a partially hyperbolic attractor with singularities (hyperbolic ones) and volume expanding central direction \cite{mpp1}. The geometric Lorenz attractor \cite{gw} is an example of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. A. Morales

We consider the class of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms $f:M\to M$ obtained as the discretization of topological Anosov flows. We show uniqueness of minimal unstable lamination for these systems provided that the underlying Anosov…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Nancy Guelman , Santiago Martinchich

We consider the equations which describe polytropic one-dimensional flows of viscous compressible multifluids. We prove global existence and uniqueness of a solution to the initial-boundary value problem which corresponds to the flow in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Alexander Mamontov , Dmitriy Prokudin

We study the geodesic flow of a compact surface without conjugate points and genus greater than one and continuous Green bundles. Identifying each strip of bi-asymptotic geodesics induces an equivalence relation on the unit tangent bundle.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Rafael O. Ruggiero , Katrin Gelfert

We present a framework for modeling complex, high-dimensional distributions on convex polytopes by leveraging recent advances in discrete and continuous normalizing flows on Riemannian manifolds. We show that any full-dimensional polytope…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tomek Diederen , Nicola Zamboni

The use of continuum mechanics and invariants built from the deviator as an adequate foundation for rheology has been recently disputed by this author. Here we give a specific example of the kind of parcel deformations that are uniquely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-07 Clifford Chafin

We introduce boundary special generic maps, a class of submersions from manifolds with boundary to Euclidean spaces whose restriction to the boundary has only boundary definite fold points as its singular points. We derive the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Koki Iwakura

A formula is given in terms of secondary characteristic classes for the leading order contribution to the spectral flow for a path of twisted Dirac operators on an odd dimensional, Riemannian manifold when the twisting is done by a path of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clifford Henry Taubes

In this paper, we prove a pseudolocality-type theorem for $\mathcal L$-complete noncompact Ricci flow which may not have bounded sectional curvature; with the help of it we study the uniqueness of the Ricci flow on noncompact manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

In this note we prove the backwards uniqueness of the mean curvature flow for (codimension one) hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. More precisely, let $F_t, \widetilde{F}_t:M^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be two complete solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Hong Huang

We test the hypothesis that the microscopic temporal structure of near-field turbulence downstream of a sudden contraction contains geometry-identifiable information pertaining to the shape of the upstream obstruction. We measure a set of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 Mukesh Karunanethy , Raghunathan Rengaswamy , Mahesh V Panchagnula

We consider the dynamics of vector fields on three-manifolds which are constrained to lie within a plane field, such as occurs in nonholonomic dynamics. On compact manifolds, such vector fields force dynamics beyond that of a gradient flow,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Etnyre , Robert Ghrist

This paper explores the behavior of the torsional rigidity of a precompact domain as the ambient manifold evolves under a geometric flow. Specifically, we derive bounds on torsional rigidity under the Ricci Flow for Heisenberg spaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Vicent Gimeno i Garcia , Fernán González-Ibáñez