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We generalize the results of Song-Zelditch on geodesics in spaces of Kahler metrics on toric varieties to harmonic maps of any compact Riemannian manifold with boundary into the space of Kahler metrics on a toric variety. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-13 Yanir A. Rubinstein , Steve Zelditch

We study a version of Calder\'on's problem for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. By using the higher linearization method, we first show that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map determines the metric on the domain up to a natural gauge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Sebastián Muñoz-Thon

In this paper we consider on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ an immersed totally geodesic hypersurface $\Si$ existing together with an immersed submanifold $N$ without focal points. No curvature condition is needed. We obtained several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Sérgio Mendonça , Heudson Mirandola

This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

We extend the well-known Sacks-Uhlenbeck energy gap result (1981) for harmonic maps from closed Riemann surfaces into closed Riemannian manifolds from the case of maps with small energy (thus near a constant map), to the case of harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Paul M. N. Feehan

Using a flow first introduced by J.P. Anderson, we obtain some existence theorems for harmonic maps from a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold into a complete Riemannian manifold. In particular, we prove as a corollary a recent result…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Deane Yang

The techniques and analysis presented in this thesis provide new methods to solve optimization problems posed on Riemannian manifolds. These methods are applied to the subspace tracking problem found in adaptive signal processing and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Steven Thomas Smith

We obtain a complete solution to the problem of classifying all two-dimensional ideal fluid flows with harmonic Lagrangian labelling maps; thus, we explicitly provide all solutions, with the specified structural property, to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Olivia Constantin , María Martín

In this paper we construct multiparametric families of two dimensional metrics with polynomial first integral. Such integrable geodesic flows are described by solutions of some semi-Hamiltonian hydrodynamic type system. We find infinitely…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-04-20 Maxim V. Pavlov , Sergey P. Tsarev

An important problem in computational topology is to calculate the homology of a space from samples. In this work, we develop a statistical approach to this problem by calculating the expected rank of an induced map on homology from a…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-04 Tianyi Sun , Bradley Nelson

In this paper we describe the topological behavior of the geodesic flow for a class of closed 3-manifolds realized as quotients of nonstrictly convex Hilbert geometries, constructed and described explicitly by Benoist. These manifolds are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Harrison Bray

We consider the problem of density estimation on Riemannian manifolds. Density estimation on manifolds has many applications in fluid-mechanics, optics and plasma physics and it appears often when dealing with angular variables (such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Mevlana C. Gemici , Danilo Rezende , Shakir Mohamed

Amidst the growing interest in nonparametric regression, we address a significant challenge in Gaussian processes(GP) applied to manifold-based predictors. Existing methods primarily focus on low dimensional constrained domains for heat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Ke Ye , Mu Niu , Pokman Cheung , Zhenwen Dai , Yuan Liu

We introduce the heat method for computing the shortest geodesic distance to a specified subset (e.g., point or curve) of a given domain. The heat method is robust, efficient, and simple to implement since it is based on solving a pair of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Keenan Crane , Clarisse Weischedel , Max Wardetzky

In this paper, we consider the pseudoharmonic heat flow with small initial horizontal energy and give the existence of pseudoharmonic maps from closed pseudo-Hermitian manifolds to closed Riemannian manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-03 BiQiang Zhao

We consider the harmonic map heat flow problem for a corotational case. For discretization of this problem we apply a $H^1$-conforming finite element method in space combined with a semi-implicit Euler time stepping. The semi-implicit Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Nam Anh Nguyen , Arnold Reusken

We present a new numerical method for the isometric embedding of 2-geometries specified by their 2-metrics in three dimensional Euclidean space. Our approach is to directly solve the fundamental embedding equation supplemented by six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Wolfgang Tichy , Jonathan R. McDonald , Warner A. Miller

We develop estimates for the solutions and derive existence and uniqueness results of various local boundary value problems for Dirac equations that improve all relevant results known in the literature. With these estimates at hand, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Qun Chen , Jürgen Jost , Linlin Sun , Miaomiao Zhu

We study Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces with integrable geodesic flows such that an additional first integral is high-degree polynomial in momenta. This problem reduces to searching for solutions to certain quasi-linear systems of PDEs…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Sergei Agapov

This work has two main purposes. The first aim is to study isotropic Riemannian maps as a generalization of isotropic immersions. For this purpose, the concept of isotropic Riemannian map is presented, an example is given and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Gözde Özkan Tükel , Bayram Şahin , Tunahan Turhan