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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

This paper is a review of recent results on integrable nonholonomic geodesic flows of left--invariant metrics and left- and right--invariant constraint distributions on compact Lie groups.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri N. Fedorov , Bozidar Jovanovic

We investigate the rudiments of Riemannian geometry on orbit spaces $M/G$ for isometric proper actions of Lie groups on Riemannian manifolds. Minimal geodesic arcs are length minimising curves in the metric space $M/G$ and they can hit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Alekseevsky , Andreas Kriegl , Mark Losik , Peter W. Michor

In this chapter, we give an overview of part of our previous work based on the minimal path framework and the Eikonal partial differential equation (PDE). We show that by designing adequate Riemannian and Randers geodesic metrics the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Da Chen , Laurent D. Cohen

A new geometrical definition of naturally reductive Finsler manifold using geodeic graph is proposed, with a possible generalization. Based on a construction from a recent paper by the authors, Finsler metrics based on naturally reductive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Teresa Arias-Marco , Zdenek Dusek

Motivated by a paper of Bolsinov and Taimanov DG/9911193 we consider non-holonomic situation and exhibit examples of sub-Riemannian metrics with integrable geodesic flows and positive topological entropy. Moreover the Riemannian examples…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Kruglikov

We relate rational integrals of the geodesic flow of a (pseudo-)Riemannian metric to relative Killig tensors, describe the spaces they span and discuss upper bounds on their dimensions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Boris Kruglikov

Considering Riemannian submersions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for when sub-Riemannian normal geodesics project to curves of constant first geodesic curvature or constant first and vanishing second geodesic curvatures. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Erlend Grong , Irina Markina

For Finsler metrics (no reversibility assumed) on closed orientable surfaces of genus greater than one, we study the dynamics of minimal rays and minimal geodesics in the universal cover. We prove in particular, that for almost all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Jan Philipp Schröder

This paper sheds light on the essential characteristics of geodesics, which frequently occur in considerations from motion in Euclidean space. Focus is mainly on a method of obtaining them from the calculus of variations, and an explicit…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Uchechukwu Michael Opara

We employ the curve shortening flow to establish three new results on the dynamics of geodesic flows of closed Riemannian surfaces. The first one is the stability, under $C^0$-small perturbations of the Riemannian metric, of certain flat…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Marco Mazzucchelli

This article is a survey of results involving conformal deformation of Riemannian metrics and fully nonlinear equations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeff Viaclovsky

On a Riemannian 2-torus $(T^2,g)$ we study the geodesic flow in the case of low complexity described by zero topological entropy. We show that this assumption implies a nearly integrable behavior. In our previous paper \cite{GK} we already…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-09-05 Eva Glasmachers , Gerhard Knieper

Given a smooth compact surface without focal points and of higher genus, it is shown that its geodesic flow is semi-conjugate to a continuous expansive flow with a local product structure such that the semi-conjugation preserves…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Katrin Gelfert , Rafael O. Ruggiero

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

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

We propose a geometrical approach to the investigation of Hamiltonian systems on (Pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. A new geometrical criterion of instability and chaos is proposed. This approach is more generic than well known reduction to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kocharyan

The goal of this survey is to give a list of resent results about topology of manifolds admitting different metrics with the same geodesics. We emphasize the role of the theory of integrable systems in obtaining these results.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Vladimir S. Matveev

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

Using quadratic forms, we stablish a criteria to relate the curvature of a Riemannian manifold and partial hyperbolicity of its geodesic flow. We show some examples which satisfy the criteria and another which does not satisfy it but still…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Fernando Carneiro , Enrique Pujals