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We describe all pseudo-Riemannian metrics on closed surfaces whose geodesic flows admit nontrivial integrals quadratic in momenta. As an application, we solve the Beltrami problem on closed surfaces and prove the nonexistence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Vladimir S. Matveev

Let $Q$ be a closed manifold admitting a locally-free action of a compact Lie group $G$. In this paper we study the properties of geodesic flows on $Q$ given by Riemannian metrics which are invariant by such an action. In particular, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Luca Asselle , Felix Schmäschke

The paper is devoted to the study of geodesic orbit Riemannian spaces that could be characterize by the property that any geodesic is an orbit of a 1-parameter group of isometries. The main result is the classification of compact simply…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Zhiqi Chen , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Projective geodesic extensions are reparametrizations of the trajectories of a nonholonomic mechanical system (with only a kinetic energy Lagrangian), in such a way that they can be interpreted as part of the geodesics of a Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Malika Belrhazi , Tom Mestdag

Two pseudo-Riemannian metrics are called projectively equivalent if their unparametrized geodesics coincide. The degree of mobility of a metric is the dimension of the space of metrics that are projectively equivalent to it. We give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Vladimir S. Matveev , Stefan Rosemann

We prove the integrability of geodesic flows on the Riemannian g.o. spaces of compact Lie groups, as well as on a related class of Riemannian homogeneous spaces having an additional principal bundle structure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-05 Bozidar Jovanovic

Let (T^2, g) be a two-dimensional Riemannian torus. In this paper we prove that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow restricted to the set of initial conditions of minimal geodesics vanishes, independent of the choice of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-07-05 Eva Leschinsky

The goal of this paper is to study periodic geodesics for sub-Riemannian metrics on a contact 3D-manifold.We develop two rather independent subjects:1) The existence of closed geodesics spiraling around periodic Reeb orbits for a generic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Yves Colin de Verdìère

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther

In this paper we study the behavior of geodesics on cones over arbitrary $C^3$-smooth closed Riemannian manifolds. We show that the geodesic flow on such cones admits first integrals whose values uniquely determine almost all geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Andrey E. Mironov , Siyao Yin

Given two c-projectively equivalent metrics on a K\"ahler manifold we show that the canoncially constructed, Poisson-commuting integrals of motion of the geodesic flow, linear and quadratic in momenta, also commute as quantum operators. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Jan Schumm

The aim of this short note is to produce new examples of geometrical flows associated to a given Riemannian flow $g(t)$. The considered flow in covariant symmetric $2$-tensor fields will be called Ricci-Yamabe map since it involves a scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mircea Crasmareanu , Sinem Güler

We consider a pseudo-Riemannian metric that changes signature along a smooth curve on a surface, called the discriminant curve. The discriminant curve separates the surface locally into a Riemannian and a Lorentzian domain. We study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 A. O. Remizov , F. Tari

Real world data often lie on low-dimensional Riemannian manifolds embedded in high-dimensional spaces. This motivates learning degenerate normalizing flows that map between the ambient space and a low-dimensional latent space. However, if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hanlin Yu , Søren Hauberg , Marcelo Hartmann , Arto Klami , Georgios Arvanitidis

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between commutative and non-commutative integrability of Hamiltonian systems and to construct new examples of integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

We describe all local Riemannian metrics on surfaces whose geodesic flows are superintegrable with one integral linear in momenta and one integral cubic in momenta. We also show that some of these metrics can be extended to the 2-sphere.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Vladimir S. Matveev , Vsevolod V. Shevchishin

We solve explicitly the geodesic equation for a wide class of (pseudo)-Riemannian homogeneous manifolds (G/H,m), including those with G compact, as well as non-compact semisimple Lie groups, under a simple algebraic condition for the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

We derive the 2-component Camassa-Holm equation and corresponding N=1 super generalization as geodesic flows with respect to the $H^1$ metric on the extended Bott-Virasoro and superconformal groups, respectively.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-04-24 Partha Guha , Peter J. Olver

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in itself, and it plays a key role in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Zhiqi Chen , Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

Given a closed Riemannian manifold, we show how to close an orbit of the geodesic flow by a small perturbation of the metric in the $C^1$ topology.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Ludovic Rifford