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The current paper deals with some new classes of Finsler metrics with reversible geodesics. We construct weighted quasi-metrics associated with these metrics. Further, we investigate some important geometric properties of weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Gauree Shanker , Sarita Rani

Geometric torsions are torsions of acyclic complexes of vector spaces which consist of differentials of geometric quantities assigned to the elements of a manifold triangulation. We use geometric torsions to construct invariants for a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-13 I. G. Korepanov

A geometric setup for constrained variational calculus is presented. The analysis deals with the study of the extremals of an action functional defined on piecewise differentiable curves, subject to differentiable, non-holonomic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-08 Enrico Massa , Danilo Bruno , Gianvittorio Luria , Enrico Pagani

We show that, in the Teichm\"uller metric, "thin-framed triangles are thin"---that is, under suitable hypotheses, the variation of geodesics obeys a hyperbolic-like inequality. This theorem has applications to the study of random walks on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Moon Duchin

We give a survey on higher invariants in noncommutative geometry and their applications to differential geometry and topology.

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Zhizhang Xie , Guoliang Yu

A new technique for the study of geodesic connectedness in a class of Lorentzian manifolds is introduced. It is based on arguments of Brouwer's topological degree for the solution of functional equations. It is shown to be very useful for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jose L. Flores , Miguel Sanchez

We derive the exact generating function for planar maps (genus zero fatgraphs) with vertices of arbitrary even valence and with two marked points at a fixed geodesic distance. This is done in a purely combinatorial way based on a bijection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Bouttier , P. Di Francesco , E. Guitter

In this article we introduce a diffeomorphism-invariant Riemannian metric on the space of vector valued one-forms. The particular choice of metric is motivated by potential future applications in the field of functional data and shape…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Martin Bauer , Eric Klassen , Stephen C. Preston , Zhe Su

In physics, two systems that radically differ at short scales can exhibit strikingly similar macroscopic behaviour: they are part of the same long-distance universality class. Here we apply this viewpoint to geometry and initiate a program…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Adam R. Brown , Michael H. Freedman , Henry W. Lin , Leonard Susskind

Modular equations occur in number theory, but it is less known that such equations also occur in the study of deformation properties of quasiconformal mappings. The authors study two important plane quasiconformal distortion functions,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2008-05-11 G. D. Anderson , S. -L. Qiu , M. Vuorinen

We obtain new general results on the structure of the space of translation invariant continuous valuations on convex sets (a version of the hard Lefschetz theorem). Using these and our previous results we obtain explicit characterization of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Semyon Alesker

A deformed differential calculus is developed based on an associative star-product. In two dimensions the Hamiltonian vector fields model the algebra of pseudo-differential operator, as used in the theory of integrable systems. Thus one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 I. A. B. Strachan

We determine multiplication and convolution topological algebras for classes of $\omega$-ultradifferentiable functions of Beurling type. Hypocontinuity and discontinuity of the multiplication and convolution mappings are also investigated.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Angela A. Albanese , Claudio Mele

This note treats the notion of Lagrange derivative for the third order mechanics in the context of covariant Riemannian geometry. The variational differential equation for geodesic circles in two dimensions is obtained. The influence of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-24 R. Ya. Matsyuk

Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Given a compact K\"ahler manifold (X,\omega_0), according to Mabuchi, the set of K\"ahler forms cohomologous to \omega_0 has the natural structure of an infinite dimensional Riemannian manifold. We address the question whether points in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Tamás Darvas , László Lempert

We initiate a systematic study of intrinsic dimensional versions of classical functional inequalities which capture refined properties of the underlying objects. We focus on model spaces: Euclidean space, Hamming cube, and manifolds of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Alexandros Eskenazis , Yair Shenfeld

A new calculus of planar diagrams involving diagrammatics for biadjoint functors and degenerate affine Hecke algebras is introduced. The calculus leads to an additive monoidal category whose Grothendieck ring contains an integral form of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Mikhail Khovanov

The formalism for describing a metric and the corresponding scalar in terms of multipole moments has recently been developed for scalar-tensor theories. We take advantage of this formalism in order to obtain expressions for the observables…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 George Pappas , Thomas P. Sotiriou

With inspiration from the K\"ahler geometry, we introduce a metric structure on the energy class, $\mathcal{E}_{1,m}$, of $m$-subharmonic functions with bounded energy and show that it is complete. After studying how the metric convergence…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Per Ahag , Rafal Czyz