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Observations suggest that configurations of points on a sphere that are stable with respect to a Riesz potential distribute points uniformly over the sphere. Further, these stable configurations have a local structure that is largely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Calef , W. Griffiths , A. Schulz , C. Fichtl , D. Hardin

The geodesic as well as the geodesic deviation equation for impulsive gravitational waves involve highly singular products of distributions $(\theta\de$, $\theta^2\de$, $\de^2$). A solution concept for these equations based on embedding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

Geodesic problems involve computing trajectories between prescribed initial and final states to minimize a user-defined measure of distance, cost, or energy. They arise throughout physics and engineering -- for instance, in determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Conor Rowan

In this paper we show that an equivalence between Horndeski and beyond Horndeski theories and general relativity with an effective imperfect fluid can be formally established. The formal equivalence is discussed for several particular cases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Israel Quiros , Ulises Nucamendi , Roberto De Arcia , Tame Gonzalez , Francisco Antonio Horta-Rangel

Let S be a triangulated 2-sphere with fixed triangulation T. We apply the methods of thin position from knot theory to obtain a simple version of the three geodesics theorem for the 2-sphere [5]. In general these three geodesics may be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Abigail Thompson

We consider the problem of allocating a finite number of heat sources in the n-dimensional sphere. When only one such source -assumed to be of infinite temperature- is placed and assuming a constant cooling rate in the sphere, we prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Carlos Beltrán , Nuria Corral , Juan G. Criado del Rey

The theory of geodesic regression aims to find a geodesic curve which is an optimal fit to a given set of data. In this article we restrict ourselves to the Riemannian manifold of positive definite operators (matrices) on a Hilbert space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Frank Hansen

We consider the geometry of the space of Borel measures endowed with a distance that is defined by generalizing the dynamical formulation of the Wasserstein distance to concave, nonlinear mobilities. We investigate the energy landscape of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-27 José Antonio Carrillo , Stefano Lisini , Giuseppe Savaré , Dejan Slepčev

We analyze in the context of geometrothermodynamics a Legendre invariant metric structure in the equilibrium space of an ideal gas. We introduce the concept of thermodynamic geodesic as a succession of points, each corresponding to a state…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Hernando Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez , Alejandro Vazquez

The ocean and the atmosphere, and hence the climate, are governed at large scale by interactions between pressure gradient, Coriolis and buoyancy forces. This leads to a quasi-geostrophic balance in which, in a two-dimensional-like fashion,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Pouquet , R. Marino

The HiRes Collaboration has recently announced preliminary measurements of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), as seen in monocular analyses from each of the two HiRes sites. This spectrum is consistent with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Douglas R. Bergman

Geodesic distance serves as a reliable means of measuring distance in nonlinear spaces, and such nonlinear manifolds are prevalent in the current multimodal learning. In these scenarios, some samples may exhibit high similarity, yet they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shibin Mei , Hang Wang , Bingbing Ni

The geometric approach to optimal transport and information theory has triggered the interpretation of probability densities as an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The most studied Riemannian structures are Otto's metric, yielding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

We give bounds on geodesic distances on the Stiefel manifold, derived from new geometric insights. The considered geodesic distances are induced by the one-parameter family of Riemannian metrics introduced by H\"uper et al. (2021), which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Simon Mataigne , P. -A. Absil , Nina Miolane

This work is a purely syntactic geometric exploration of some few elements, which are our axioms, that in last instance it is the set of differential equations whose solutions give the geodesic lines of the Schwarzschild spacetime. We…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho

Let $M$ be a Riemannian $2$-sphere. A classical theorem of Lyusternik and Shnirelman asserts the existence of three distinct simple non-trivial periodic geodesics on $M$. In this paper we prove that there exist three simple periodic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Yevgeny Liokumovich , Alexander Nabutovsky , Regina Rotman

In this paper the space of images is considered as a Riemannian manifold using the metamorphosis approach, where the underlying Riemannian metric simultaneously measures the cost of image transport and intensity variation. A robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Berkels , Alexander Effland , Martin Rumpf

A holistic view of the cosmological appearance and development of space is obtained by studying space as a spherically closed surface of a 4-sphere in a zero energy balance between motion and gravitation. Such an approach re-establishes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tuomo Suntola

We consider the minimum energy problem on the unit sphere $\mathbb S^{d-1}$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$, $d\geq 3$, in the presence of an external field $Q$, where the charges are assumed to interact according to Newtonian…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Mykhailo Bilogliadov

We present the explicit solution to the geodesic equations in a warped de Sitter space-time proposed by Randall-Sundrum. We find that a test particle moves in the bulk and is not restricted on a 3-brane (to be taken as our universe). On the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Jose A. Magpantay