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We prove a new general Poincar\'e-type inequality for differential forms on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonempty boundary. When the boundary is isometrically immersed in Euclidean space, we derive a new inequality involving mean and…

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We prove that a Gaussian ensemble of smooth random sections of a real vector bundle over compact manifold canonically defines a metric on the bundle together with a connection compatible with it. Additionally, we prove a refined…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Liviu I. Nicolaescu

We construct asymptotically Euclidean solutions of the vacuum Einstein constraint equations with an apparent horizon boundary condition. Specifically, we give sufficient conditions for the constant mean curvature conformal method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 David Maxwell

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle $E$ of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold $M$. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis Bell

For a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ with smooth boundary, $n\geqslant 2$, we prove that the Cauchy data (or the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the Stokes equations uniquely determines the partial derivatives of all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xiaoming Tan

Up to dimension five, we can prove that given any closed Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature, of which the universal covering has vanishing homology group $H_k$ for all $k\geq 3$, either it is flat or it has Gauss-Bonnet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Jintian Zhu

We derive a formula of Chern-Gauss-Bonnet type for the Euler characteristic of a four dimensional manifold-with-boundary in terms of the geometry of the Loewner-Nirenberg singular Yamabe metric in a prescribed conformal class. The formula…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-06 C. Robin Graham , Matthew J. Gursky

We study a Riemannian manifold equipped with a density which satisfies the Bakry--\'Emery Curvature-Dimension condition (combining a lower bound on its generalized Ricci curvature and an upper bound on its generalized dimension). We first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Emanuel Milman

We prove a version of Gauss-Bonnet theorem in sub-Riemannian Heisenberg space $H^1$. The sub-Riemannian distance makes $H^1$ a metric space and consenquently with a spherical Hausdorff measure. Using this measure, we define a Gaussian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-29 José M. M. Veloso , Marcos M. Diniz

In this paper, we establish a Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem for general closed complex Finsler manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Wei Zhao

In this paper, we study the coupled Einstein constraint equations on complete manifolds through the conformal method, focusing on non-compact manifolds with flexible asymptotics. This is physically well-motivated by standard cosmological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Rodrigo Avalos , Jorge Lira , Nicolas Marque

We look at curvatures that are supported on k-dimensional parts of a simplicial complex G. These curvature all satisfy the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, provided that the k-dimensional simplices cover $G$. Each of these curvatures can be written as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Oliver Knill

The apparatus of motivic stable homotopy theory provides a notion of Euler characteristic for smooth projective varieties, valued in the Grothendieck-Witt ring of the base field. Previous work of the first author and recent work of…

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The goal of this paper is to describe Zermelo's navigation problem on Riemannian manifolds as a time-optimal control problem and give an efficient method in order to evaluate its control curvature. We will show that up to change the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Ulysse Serres

Static manifolds with boundary were recently introduced to mathematics. This kind of manifold appears naturally in the prescribed scalar curvature problem on manifolds with boundary when the mean curvature of the boundary is also…

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We study sequences of oriented Riemannian manifolds with boundary and, more generally, integral current spaces and metric spaces with boundary. {\color{blue}For a metric space, we define its boundary to be the completion of the space minus…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Raquel Perales

We review the explicit derivation of the Gauss-Bonet and Hirzebruch formulae by physical model and give a physical proof of the Lefschetz fixed-point formula by twisting boundary conditions for the path integral.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Si Li

In this work, we investigate the geometry and topology of compact Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundary. First, we prove a sharp boundary estimate, as consequence we obtain under certain hypotheses that the Hawking mass is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Maria Andrade , Ana Paula de Melo

We develop methods for constructing and computing conformal invariants of submanifolds, with a particular emphasis on conformal submanifold scalars and conformally invariant integrals of natural submanifold scalars. These methods include a…

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