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We introduce spin-harmonic structures, a class of geometric structures on Riemannian manifolds of low dimension which are defined by a harmonic unitary spinor. Such structures are related to SU(2) (dim=4,5), SU(3) (dim=6) and G_2 (dim=7)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Giovanni Bazzoni , Lucia Martin-Merchan , Vicente Munoz

We study the types of non-integrable $\mathrm{G}$-structures on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, geometric types admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion are characterized. 8-dimensional manifolds equipped with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich

A geometric flow on $6$-dimensional symplectic manifolds is introduced which is motivated by supersymmetric compactifications of the Type IIA string. The underlying structure turns out to be SU(3) holonomy, but with respect to the projected…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Teng Fei , Duong H. Phong , Sebastien Picard , Xiangwen Zhang

Suppose we are given a compact Riemannian manifold (Q,g)with completely integrable geodesic flow. Let G be a compact connected Lie group acting freely on Q by isometries. The natural question arises: will the geodesic flow on Q/G equipped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozidar Jovanovic

The group of real 4 by 4 upper triangular matrices with 1s on the diagonal has a left-invariant subRiemannian (or Carnot-Caratheodory) structure whose underlying distribution corresponds to the superdiagonal. We prove that the associated…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 R. Montgomery , M. Shapiro , A. Stolin

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

We show that the appropriate notion of magnetic field on three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifolds is given by a closed Rumin differential two-form. We introduce horizontal magnetic flows starting from magnetic potential one-forms,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Davide Barilari , Tania Bossio , Valentina Franceschi

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

In this paper we prove that automorphisms are the only isometries between rank two Almost-Riemannian Structures on the class of nonnilpotent, solvable, connected 3D Lie groups. As a consequence, a classification result for rank two ARSs on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Victor Ayala , Adriano Da Silva , Danilo A. Garcia Hernández

We construct a pair of compact, eight-dimensional, two-step Riemannian nilmanifolds $M$ and $M'$ which are isospectral for the Laplace operator on functions and such that $M$ has completely integrable geodesic flow in the sense of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-23 Dorothee Schueth

We analyse the geometry of the rubber-rolling distribution on the special orthogonal group and show that almost all the normal geodesics of any right-invariant sub-Riemannian metric defined on this distribution are completely integrable.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli , Philip Arathoon , Anthony M. Bloch

We study a Killing spinor type equation on spin Riemannian flows. We prove integrability conditions and partially classify those Riemannian flows $M$ carrying non-trivial solutions to that equation in case $M$ is a local Riemannian product,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

We show that a 7-dimensional non-compact Ricci-flat Riemannian manifold with Riemannian holonomy G_2 can admit non-integrable G_2 structures of type R + S^2_0(R^7) + R^7 in the sense of Fern\'andez and Gray. This relies on the construction…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-04 I. Agricola , S. Chiossi , A. Fino

Normal geodesic flows flows of Carnot-Caratheodory are discussed from the point of view of the theory of Hamiltonian systems. The geodesic flows corresponding to left-invariant metrics and left- and -right-invariant rank 2 distributions on…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 I. A. Taimanov

In this paper we explain how to define "lower dimensional'' volumes of any compact Riemannian manifold as the integrals of local Riemannian invariants. For instance we give sense to the area and the length of such a manifold in any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Raphael Ponge

In this survey article we gather classical as well as recent results on minimal geodesics of Riemannian or Finsler metrics, giving special attention to the two-dimensional case. Moreover, we present open problems together with some first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Jan Philipp Schröder

The only one example has been known of magnetic geodesic flow on the 2-torus which has a polynomial in momenta integral independent of the Hamiltonian. In this example the integral is linear in momenta and corresponds to a one parametric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Sergey V. Agapov , Michael , Bialy , Andrey E. Mironov

We provide the first known family of examples of integrable homogeneous sub-Riemannian structures admitting strictly abnormal geodesics. These examples were obtained through the analysis of the equivalence problem for sub-Riemannian Engel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Ivan Beschastnyi , Alexandr Medvedev

We study the geodesic flow corresponding to the left-invariant sub-Riemannian metric and the right-invariant distribution on the second Heisenberg group. The corresponding Hamiltonian system is completely integrable and in this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Milan Pavlović

We consider nilpotent Lie groups for which the derived subgroup is abelian. We equip them with subRiemannian metrics and we study the normal Hamiltonian flow on the cotangent bundle. We show a correspondence between normal trajectories and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli , Enrico Le Donne , Nicola Paddeu