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In this article, we investigate the centered isoperimetric inequality on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds endowed with a warped product structure, namely, among all bounded measurable sets of finite perimeter and prescribed volume, the geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Avas Banerjee

We define a notion of a measured length space X having nonnegative N-Ricci curvature, for N finite, or having infinity-Ricci curvature bounded below by K, for K a real number. The definitions are in terms of the displacement convexity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott , Cedric Villani

Let $(M^n,g)$ be a complete Riemannian manifold which is not isometric to $\mathbb{R}^n$, has nonnegative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth, and quadratic Riemann curvature decay. We prove that there exists a set $\mathcal{G}\subset…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Gioacchino Antonelli , Marco Pozzetta , Daniele Semola

Quantum states defined over a parameter space form a Grassmann manifold. To capture the geometry of the associated gauge structure, gauge-invariant quantities are essential. We employ the projector of a multilevel system to quantify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Shin-Ming Huang , Dimitrios Giataganas

The approximation of probability measures on compact metric spaces and in particular on Riemannian manifoldsby atomic or empirical ones is a classical task in approximation and complexity theory with a wide range of applications. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Martin Ehler , Manuel Gräf , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport characterization of sectional curvature lower (and upper) bounds for smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. More generally we characterize, via optimal transport, lower bounds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Christian Ketterer , Andrea Mondino

Reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics on spaces of regular curves have been shown to be of importance in the field of mathematical shape analysis. For practical applications, one usually discretizes the space of smooth curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Cerqueira , Emmanuel Hartman , Eric Klassen , Martin Bauer

In this paper, we prove that a metric measure space which has at least one open set isometric to an interval, and for which the (possibly non-unique) optimal transport map exists from any absolutely continuous measure to an arbitrary…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Timo Schultz

Through the use of sub-Riemannian metrics we provide quantitative estimates for the maximal tight neighbourhood of a Reeb orbit on a three-dimensional contact manifold. Under appropriate geometric conditions we show how to construct closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Andrei A. Agrachev , Stefano Baranzini , Eugenio Bellini , Luca Rizzi

We construct isoperimetric regions from separating hypersurfaces in closed manifolds. This yields isoperimetric boundaries exhibiting a wide variety of topological types and singular sets.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Kobe Marshall-Stevens , Gongping Niu

The smallest $r$ so that a metric $r$-ball covers a metric space $M$ is called the radius of $M$. The volume of a metric $r$-ball in the space form of constant curvature $k$ is an upper bound for the volume of any Riemannian manifold with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Curtis Pro , Michael Sill , Frederick Wilhelm

We reveal strong and weak inequalities relating two fundamental macroscopic quantum geometric quantities, the quantum distance and Berry phase, for closed paths in the Hilbert space of wavefunctions. We recount the role of quantum geometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Praveen Pai , Fan Zhang

The isoperimetric problem with a density or weighting seeks to enclose prescribed weighted volume with minimum weighted perimeter. According to Chambers' recent proof of the log-convex density conjecture, for many densities on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Eliot Bongiovanni , Alejandro Diaz , Arjun Kakkar , Nat Sothanaphan

We study, on a weighted Riemannian manifold of Ric$_{N} \geq K > 0$ for $N < -1$, when equality holds in the isoperimetric inequality. Our main theorem asserts that such a manifold is necessarily isometric to the warped product $\mathbb{R}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Cong Hung Mai

An algebraic formulation of Riemannian geometry on quantum spaces is presented, where Riemannian metric, distance, Laplacian, connection, and curvature have their counterparts. This description is also extended to complex manifolds.…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Pei-Ming Ho

We consider capillarity functionals which measure the perimeter of sets contained in a Euclidean half-space assigning a constant weight $\lambda \in (-1,1)$ to the portion of the boundary that touches the boundary of the half-space.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Giulio Pascale , Marco Pozzetta

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the isoperimetric inequality for symmetric log-convex probability measures on the line. Using geometric arguments we first re-prove that extremal sets in the isoperimetric inequality are intervals or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-06 F. Feo , M. R. Posteraro , C. Roberto

This paper considers the quantization problem on the Grassmann manifold with dimension n and p. The unique contribution is the derivation of a closed-form formula for the volume of a metric ball in the Grassmann manifold when the radius is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Wei Dai , Youjian Liu , Brian Rider

In this work the Isoperimetric Inequality for integral varifolds is used to obtain sharp estimates for the size of the set where the density quotient is small and to generalise Calder\'on's and Zygmund's theory of first order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-28 Ulrich Menne

We define the Ricci curvature of Markov chains on metric spaces as a local contraction coefficient of the random walk acting on the space of probability measures equipped with a Wasserstein transportation distance. For Brownian motion on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-30 Yann Ollivier