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Given a fixed closed manifold M, we exhibit an explicit formula for the distance function of the canonical L^2 Riemannian metric on the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on M. Additionally, we examine the (metric) completion of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Brian Clarke

We consider a surface $M$ immersed in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with induced metric $g=\psi\delta_2$ where $\delta_2$ is the two dimensional Euclidean metric. We then construct a system of partial differential equations that constrain $M$ to lift to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron Peterson , Stephen Taylor

In this paper we consider flat metrics (semi-translation structures) on surfaces of finite type. There are two main results. The first is a complete description of when a set of simple closed curves is spectrally rigid, that is, when the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Moon Duchin , Christopher J. Leininger , Kasra Rafi

For a surface immersed in a three-dimensional space endowed with a norm instead of an inner product, one can define analogous concepts of curvature and metric. With these concepts in mind, various questions immediately appear. The aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

In a separably connected space any two points are contained in a separable connected subset. We show a mechanism that takes a connected bounded metric space and produces a complete connected metric space whose separablewise components form…

General Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-30 T. Banakh , M. Vovk , M. R. Wójcik

Diversities are a generalization of metric spaces in which a non-negative value is assigned to all finite subsets of a set, rather than just to pairs of points. Here we provide an analogue of the theory of negative type metrics for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Pei Wu , David Bryant , Paul F. Tupper

We introduce a new family of affine metrics on a locally strictly convex surface $M$ in affine 4-space. Then, we define the symmetric and antisymmetric equiaffine planes associated with each metric. We show that if $M$ is immersed in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Juan J. Nuño Ballesteros , Luis Sánchez

We determine the homeomorphism type of the space of smooth complete nonnegatively curved metrics on surfaces of positive Euler characteristic equipped with the topology of $C^\gamma$ uniform convergence on compact sets, when $\gamma$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Taras Banakh , Igor Belegradek

In the direct approach to continua in reduced space dimensions, a thin shell is described as a mathematical surface in three-dimensional space. An exploratory kinematic study of such surfaces could be very valuable, especially if conducted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Andre M. Sonnet , Epifanio G. Virga

The paper is devoted to relations between topological and metric properties of germs of real surfaces, obtained by analytic maps from $R^2$ to $R^4$. We show that for a big class of such surfaces the normal embedding property implies the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Lev Birbrair , Rodrigo Mendes , Juan Jose Nuño-Ballesteros

We study the intrinsic structure of parametric minimal discs in metric spaces admitting a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. We associate to each minimal disc a compact, geodesic metric space whose geometric, topological, and analytic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Alexander Lytchak , Stefan Wenger

With respect to every Riemannian metric, the Teichm\"uller metric, and the Thurston metric on Teichm\"uller space, we show that there exist measured foliations on surfaces whose extremal length functions are not convex. The construction…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Nathaniel Sagman

A new sequential approach to investigations of structure of metric spaces at infinity is proposed. Criteria for finiteness and boundedness of metric spaces at infinity are found.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Viktoriia Bilet , Oleksiy Dovgoshey

A space is called minimal if it admits a minimal continuous selfmap. We give examples of metrizable continua $X$ admitting both minimal homeomorphisms and minimal noninvertible maps, whose squares $X\times X$ are not minimal, i.e., they…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Matúš Dirbák , Ľubomír Snoha , Vladimír Špitalský

Many compliant shell mechanisms are periodically corrugated or creased. Being thin, their preferred deformation modes are inextensional, i.e., isometric. Here, we report on a recent characterization of the isometric deformations of periodic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hussein Nassar , Andrew Weber

We show the flexibility of the metric entropy and obtain additional restrictions on the topological entropy of geodesic flow on closed surfaces of negative Euler characteristic with smooth non-positively curved Riemannian metrics with fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Thomas Barthelmé , Alena Erchenko

We develop a quantum statistical framework for passive optical surface metrology. Modelling a surface as an incoherent ensemble of point emitters imaged through a diffraction-limited system, we employ techniques from quantum parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jernej Frank , George Brumpton , Tommaso Tufarelli , Gerardo Adesso , Samanta Piano

We prove an improvement of flatness result for nonlocal minimal surfaces which is independent of the fractional parameter $s$ when $s\rightarrow 1^-$. As a consequence, we obtain that all the nonlocal minimal cones are flat and that all the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-07 Luis Caffarelli , Enrico Valdinoci

A set of locally finite perimeter $E \subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$ is called an anisotropic minimal surface in an open set $A$ if $\Phi(E;A) \le \Phi(F;A)$ for some surface energy $\Phi(E;A) = \int_{\partial^{*}E \cap A} \| \nu_{E}\| d…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Max Goering

The notion of Nonlocal Mean Curvature (NMC) appears recently in the mathematics literature. It is an extrinsic geometric quantity that is invariant under global reparameterization of a surface and provide a natural extension of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall