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We introduce a geometric evolution equation for 3-manifolds with sectional curvature of one sign which is in some sense dual to the Ricci flow. On a closed 3-manifold with negative sectional curvature, we establish short time existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Richard Hamilton

For the N-body problem we prove that any two hyperbolic rays having the same limit shape define the same Busemann function. We localize a region of differentiability for these functions, of which we know that they are viscosity solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ezequiel Maderna , Andrea Venturelli

Strong hyperbolicity is a coarse notion of negative curvature, stronger than Gromov hyperbolicity, that includes all CAT(-k) metrics for k positive and allows the use of dynamical techniques available in negative curvature, such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Meenakshy Jyothis , Dídac Martínez-Granado

For asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $n$ with scalar curvature at least equal to $-n(n-1)$ the conjectured positive mass theorem states that the mass is non-negative, and vanishes only if the manifold is isometric to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Mattias Dahl , Romain Gicquaud , Anna Sakovich

In this paper we characterize all the solutions of the three body problem on which one body with mass $m_1$ remains in a fixed line and the other two bodies have the same mass $m_2$. We show that all the solutions with negative total energy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Oscar Perdomo

We consider the 4-body problem in spaces of constant curvature and study the existence of spherical and hyperbolic rectangular solutions, i.e. equiangular quadrilateral motions on spheres and hyperbolic spheres. We focus on relative…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Florin Diacu , Brendan Thorn

We generalize the curved $N$-body problem to spheres and hyperbolic spheres whose curvature $\kappa$ varies in time. Unlike in the particular case when the curvature is constant, the equations of motion are non-autonomous. We first briefly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Eric Boulter , Florin Diacu , Shuqiang Zhu

Let $M$ be a closed hyperbolic manifold containing a totally geodesic hypersurface $S$, and let $N$ be a closed Riemannian manifold homotopy equivalent to $M$ with sectional curvature bounded above by $-1$. Then it follows from the work of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Ben Lowe

A recent paper [CGT] studies the evolution of star-shaped mean convex hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space by a class of nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows. In the present paper we consider the same problem in the real, complex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Giuseppe Pipoli

We establish a symmetry result for positive entire solutions with a prescribed growth rate to the following fourth order equation on the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^3$: \[ P_2 u = - u^{-7}, \] where $P_2$ denotes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Debdip Ganguly , Jungang Li , Guozhen Lu , Jianxiong Wang

In this paper we introduce the hyperbolic mean curvature flow and prove that the corresponding system of partial differential equations are strictly hyperbolic, and based on this, we show that this flow admits a unique short-time smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-19 Chun-Lei He , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

Given a closed 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric of negative sec- tional curvature, we consider the cross curvature flow an evolution equation of metric on M3. We prove long-time existence of a solution to the cross curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Wei-Hung Liao

This paper presents hyperbolic rank rigidity results for rank 1, nonpositively curved spaces. Let $M$ be a compact, rank 1 manifold with nonpositive sectional curvature and suppose that along every geodesic in $M$ there is a parallel vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Constantine

Let S be a surface with genus g and n boundary components and let d(S) = 3g-3+n denote the number of curves in any pants decomposition of S. We employ metric properties of the graph of pants decompositions CP(S) prove that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Jeffrey Brock , Benson Farb

Consider the planar restricted $(N+1)$-body problem with trajectories of the $N(\ge 2)$ primaries forming a collision-free periodic solution of the $N$-body problem, for any positive energy $h$ and directions $\theta_{\pm} \in [0, 2\pi)$,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Guowei Yu

In the present paper we have discussed the mechanics of incompressible test bodies moving in Riemannian spaces with non-trivial curvature tensors. For Hamilton's equations of motion the solutions have been obtained in the parametrical form…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vasyl Kovalchuk , Barbara Gołubowska , Ewa Eliza Rożko

This paper studies Riemannian manifolds of the form $M \setminus S$, where $M^4$ is a complete four dimensional Riemannian manifold with finite volume whose metric is modeled on the complex hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^2$, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Barry Minemyer

In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature is strictly decreasing along the normalized Ricci flow, and he asked if an analogous result holds in higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Karen Butt , Alena Erchenko , Tristan Humbert

We consider the reduced two-body problem with a central potential on the sphere ${\bf S}^{2}$ and the hyperbolic plane ${\bf H}^{2}$. For two potentials different from the Newton and the oscillator ones we prove the nonexistence of an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Alexey V. Shchepetilov

We consider the reduced two-body problem with the Newton and the oscillator potentials on the sphere ${\bf S}^{2}$ and the hyperbolic plane ${\bf H}^{2}$. For both types of interaction we prove the nonexistence of an additional meromorphic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Shchepetilov