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We address the problem of catching all speed $1$ geodesics of a Riemannian manifold with a moving ball: given a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and small parameters $\varepsilon>0$ and $v>0$, is it possible to find $T>0$ and an…

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The use of iteration and piecewise functions allows analytic expression of the trajectories of an R\"ossler-like attractor, avoiding infinite series solution. It seems possible to extend this approach to other attractors, even if the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Stefano Morosetti

We prove that a closed negatively curved analytic Riemannian manifold that contains infinitely many totally geodesic hypersurfaces is isometric to an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold. Equivalently, any closed analytic Riemannian manifold with…

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This thesis is concerned with extending the idea of geodesic completeness from pseudo-Riemannian to complex geometry: we take, however a completely holomorphicpoint of view; that is to say, a 'metric' will be a (meromorphic) symmetric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Claudio Meneghini

We construct geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces supporting horocycles with tailored recurrence properties. In particular, we obtain the first examples of non-trivial minimal horocyclic orbit closures and of infinite locally-finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Françoise Dal'bo , James Farre , Or Landesberg , Yair Minsky

In this article, the ray tracing method is studied beyond the classical geometrical theory. The trajectories are here regarded as geodesics in a Riemannian manifold, whose metric and topological properties are those induced by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano

We prove the following three results in Hamiltonian dynamics. 1. The Weinstein conjecture holds true for every displaceable hypersurface of contact type. 2. Every magnetic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold has contractible closed orbits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

We provide a general contractibility criterion for subsets of Riemannian metrics on the disc. For instance, this result applies to the space of metrics that have positive Gauss curvature and make the boundary circle convex (or geodesic).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Alessandro Carlotto , Damin Wu

We extend some properties of random walks on hyperbolic groups to random walks on convergence groups. In particular we prove that if a convergence group $G$ acts on a compact metrizable space $M$ with the convergence property then we can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Aitor Azemar

We prove a compactness theorem for metrics with Bounded Integral Curvature on a fixed closed surface $\Sigma$. As a corollary, we obtain a compactification of the space of Riemannian metrics with conical singularities, where an accumulation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Clément Debin

We prove that if the unit codisc bundle of a closed Riemannian manifold embeds symplectically into a symplectic cylinder of radius one then the length of the shortest nontrivial closed geodesic is at most half the area of the unit disc.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Kai Zehmisch

We study an approximation by time-discretized geodesic random walks of a diffusion process associated with a family of time-dependent metrics on manifolds. The condition we assume on the metrics is a natural time-inhomogeneous extension of…

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We show that round hemispheres are the only compact 2 dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with or without boundary) such that almost every pair of complete geodesics intersect once and only once. We prove this by establishing a sharp…

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For metric spaces with curvature less than or equal to x, x<0, it is shown that a recurrent geodesic can be approximated by closed geodesics. A counter example is provided for the converse.

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We prove rigidity facts for groups acting on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds by preserving unparameterized geodesics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Abdelghani Zeghib

We show that for a generic Riemannian metric on a compact manifold of dimension $n\ge 3$ all geodesic loops based at a fixed point have no self-intersections. We also show that for an open and dense subset of the space of Riemannian metrics…

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Motivated by a question of Tsai-Tsui-Wang, we consider the rigidity of map from manifolds with positive Ricci curvature to manifolds with positive sectional curvature. We show that if the Ricci curvature of the domain dominates that of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Man-Chun Lee , Jingbo Wan

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly symmetric Riemannian manifolds and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf

On a smooth asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold with non-compact boundary, we prove a positive mass theorem for metrics which are only continuous across a compact hypersurface. As an application, we obtain a positive mass theorem on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

The method of the factorization of the path integral measure, based on a nonlinear filtering equation, is extended to the case of a nonfree isometric action of the compact semisimple unimodular Lie group on a smooth compact Riemannian…

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