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We show the existence of a weak bi-invariant symmetric nondegenerate 2-form on the symplectic diffeomorphisms group $\mathcal{D}_\omega$ of a symplectic Riemannian manifold $(M,g,\omega)$ and study its properties. We describe the Euler's…

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In this paper, we derived biharmonic equations for pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which includes the biharmonic equations for submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds as a special case. As applications, we proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Yuxin Dong , Ye-Lin Ou

In this paper we develop an intrinsic formalism to study the topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of a closed Riemannian manifold. Our formalism allows for a new characterisation of the Weak topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

We explore a particular approach to the analysis of dynamical and geometrical properties of autonomous, Pfaffian non-holonomic systems in classical mechanics. The method is based on the construction of a certain auxiliary constrained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Chen

We study collections of exact Lagrangian submanifolds respecting some uniform Riemannian bounds, which we equip with a metric naturally arising in symplectic topology (e.g. the Lagrangian Hofer metric or the spectral metric). We exhibit…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Jean-Philippe Chassé

We consider nonholonomic geodesic flows of left-invariant metrics and left-invariant nonintegrable distributions on compact connected Lie groups. The equations of geodesic flows are reduced to the Euler-Poincare-Suslov equations on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bozidar Jovanovic

Sub-Riemannian structures on odd-dimensional spheres respecting the Hopf fibration naturally appear in quantum mechanics. We study the curvature maps for such a sub-Riemannian structure and express them using the Riemannian curvature tensor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Chengbo Li , Huaying Zhan

We investigate the action of diffeomorphisms in the context of Hamiltonian Gravity. By considering how the diffeomorphism-invariant Hilbert space of Loop Quantum Gravity should be constructed, we formulate a physical principle by demanding,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Koslowski

We say that a PDE in a Riemannian manifold $M$ is geometric if,$\ $whenever $u$ is a solution of the PDE on a domain $\Omega$ of $M$, the composition $u_{\phi}:=u\circ\phi$ is also solution on $\phi^{-1}\left( \Omega\right) $, for any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Ari Aiolfi , Leonardo Bonorino , Jaime Ripoll , Marc Soret , Marina Ville

This is a short presentation of some classical results on finite dimensional complex Lie algebras (classification of nilpotent Lie algebras, deformations and perturbations, contractions and rigidity). We present some applications to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Michel Goze

The authors found geodesics, shortest arcs, cut loci, and conjugate sets for left-invariant sub-Riemannian matric on the Lie group $SL(2)$, which is right-invariant relative to the Lie subgroup $SO(2)\subset SL(2)$ (in other words, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-28 V. Berestovskii , I. Zubareva

This paper studies the reduction by symmetry of variational problems on Lie groups and Riemannian homogeneous spaces. We derive the reduced equations of motion in the case of Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant metric, and on Lie…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Jacob R. Goodman , Leonardo J. Colombo

We prove that the geodesic equations of all Sobolev metrics of fractional order one and higher on spaces of diffeomorphisms and, more generally, immersions are locally well posed. This result builds on the recently established real analytic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms , Peter W. Michor

We describe homogeneous sub-Riemannian geodesics for the standard sub-Riemannian structure on the group of proper motions of the plane SE(2). We show that this structure is not geodesically orbital, although the cut time is invariant w.r.t.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Yuri Sachkov

The paper surveys open problems and questions related to geodesics defined by Riemannian, Finsler, semi Riemannian and magnetic structures on manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Keith Burns , Vladimir S. Matveev

For all left-invariant Riemannian metrics on three-dimensional unimodular Lie groups, there exist particular left-invariant orthonormal frames, so-called Milnor frames. In this paper, for any left-invariant Riemannian metrics on any Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Takahiro Hashinaga , Hiroshi Tamaru , Kazuhiro Terada

We present an extended version of Riemannian geometry suitable for the description of current formulations of double field theory (DFT). This framework is based on graded manifolds and it yields extended notions of symmetries, dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-03 Andreas Deser , Christian Saemann

We discuss a variational approach to the length functional and its relation to sub-Hamiltonian equations on sub-Finsler manifolds. Then, we introduce the notion of the nonholonomic sub-Finslerian structure and prove that the distributions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Layth M. Alabdulsada

We introduce conformal anti-invariant submersions from almost Hermitian manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We give examples, investigate the geometry of foliations which are arisen from the definition of a conformal submersion and find…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Mehmet Akif Akyol , Bayram Sahin

Every Heisenberg manifold has a natural "sub-Riemannian" metric with interesting properties. We describe the corresponding noncommutative metric structure for Rieffel's quantum Heisenberg manifolds.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nik Weaver