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We consider here the $3$-sphere $\mathbf S^3$ seen as the boundary at infinity of the complex hyperbolic plane $\mathbf{H}^2_{\mathbf C}$. It comes equipped with a contact structure and two classes of special curves. First $\mathbf…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Elisha Falbel , Antonin Guilloux , Pierre Will

In this work we discuss the notion of stationary curves of the length functional, the so-called (weak) geodesics, on a Riemannian manifold. The motivation behind this work is to give a detailed description of many key concepts from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Tobias Starke

We show that efficient geodesics have the strong property of "super efficiency". For any two vertices, $v , w \in \mathcal{C}(S_g)$, in the complex of curves of a closed oriented surface of genus $g \geq 2 $, and any efficient geodesic, $v…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Xifeng Jin , William W. Menasco

The concept of convex compactness, weaker than the classical notion of compactness, is introduced and discussed. It is shown that a large class of convex subsets of topological vector spaces shares this property and that is can be used in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Gordan Zitkovic

We study geodesics on a family $(M_\varepsilon)$ of manifolds that have a thin neck, which degenerate to a space with an incomplete cuspidal singularity as $\varepsilon\to0$. There are essentially two classes of geodesics passing the waist,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Daniel Grieser , Jørgen Olsen Lye

We analyze the properties of weakly compact sets in Lipschitz free spaces. Prior research has established that, for a complete metric space $M$, weakly precompact sets in the Lipschitz free space $\mathcal F(M)$ are tight. In this paper, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Ramón J. Aliaga , Colin Petitjean , Antonín Prochazka , Triinu Veeorg

In 1981 Masur proved the existence of a dense geodesic in the moduli space for a Teichm\"uller space. We prove an analogue theorem for reduced Outer Space endowed with the Lipschitz metric. We also prove two results possibly of independent…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Yael Algom-Kfir , Catherine Pfaff

The Riemannian manifold of curves with a Sobolev metric is an important and frequently studied model in the theory of shape spaces. Various numerical approaches have been proposed to compute geodesics, but so far elude a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Sascha Beutler , Florine Hartwig , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

A weak $f$-structure on a smooth manifold, introduced by the author and R. Wolak (2022), generalizes K. Yano's (1961) $f$-structure. This generalization allows us to revisit classical theory and discover new applications related to Killing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Vladimir Rovenski

Two approaches to Lipschitz structures for any set are presented, studied and compared. The first approach is similar to the one proposed in Fraser, Jr. R. B., Axiom systems for Lipschitz structures, Fundamenta Mathematicae, (1970), where…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Tullio Valent

We present a view of the current understanding of the geometry of Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesics on the completion of the Teichm\"uller space. We sketch a collection of results by other authors and then proceed to develop the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Scott A. Wolpert

We study geodesics for plurisubharmonic functions from the Cegrell class ${\mathcal F}_1$ on a bounded hyperconvex domain of ${\mathbb C}^n$ and show that, as in the case of metrics on K\"{a}hler compact menifolds, they linearize an energy…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Alexander Rashkovskii

We deal with a robust notion of weak normals for a wide class of irregular curves defined in Euclidean spaces of high dimension. Concerning polygonal curves, the discrete normals are built up through a Gram-Schmidt procedure applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Domenico Mucci , Alberto Saracco

The first author and Oguni introduced a class of groups of non-positive curvature, called coarsely convex group. The recent success of the theory of groups which are hyperbolic relative to a collection of subgroups has motivated the study…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Tomohiro Fukaya , Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza , Takumi Matsuka

Let $M$ be a manifold with pinched negative sectional curvature. We show that when $M$ is geometrically finite and the geodesic flow on $T^1 M$ is topologically mixing then the set of mixing invariant measures is dense in the set…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Belarif Kamel

We explore the notion of discrete spectrum and its various characterizations for ergodic measure-preserving actions of an amenable group on a compact metric space. We introduce a notion of 'weak-tameness', which is a measure-theoretic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-29 e. H. el Abdalaoui , M. Nerurkar

Considering the Teichm\"uller space of a surface equipped with Thurston's Lipschitz metric, we study geodesic segments whose endpoints have bounded combinatorics. We show that these geodesics are cobounded, and that the closest-point…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

We provide a combinatorial condition characterizing curves that are short along a Teichmueller geodesic. This condition is closely related to the condition provided by Minsky for curves in a hyperbolic 3-manifold to be short. We show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Kasra Rafi

We prove measurable analogues of Whitney's classical theorems on weak isomorphisms of finite graphs. In the setting of locally finite graphings, we introduce a notion of weak isomorphism as an edge-measure-preserving Borel bijection that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Márton Borbényi , Grigory Terlov , László Márton Tóth

In this paper, we study the characterization of geodesics for a class of distances between probability measures introduced by Dolbeault, Nazaret and Savar e. We first prove the existence of a potential function and then give necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Guillaume Carlier , Bruno Nazaret