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We present new, explicit, volume-preserving vector fields for polynomial divergence-free vector fields of arbitrary degree (both positive and negative). The main idea is to decompose the divergence polynomial by means of an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Huiyan Xue , Antonella Zanna

We present a new general construction of examples of mean curvature solitons on manifolds admitting a nowhere-vanishing Killing vector field. Using Riemannian submersion techniques, we reduce the problem from a PDE to an ODE. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Diego Artacho , Marie-Amélie Lawn , Miguel Ortega

In this paper, we study Vanishing Mean Oscillation vector fields on a compact manifold with boundary. Inspired by the work of Brezis and Niremberg, we construct a topological invariant - the index - for such fields, and establish the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Giacomo Canevari , Antonio Segatti , Marco Veneroni

We will propose a new algorithm for finding critical points of cost functions defined on a differential manifold. We will lift the initial cost function to a manifold that can be embedded in a Riemannian manifold (Euclidean space) and will…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Petre Birtea , Dan Comănescu , Călin-Adrian Popa

We study phase portraits and singular points of vector fields of a special type, that is, vector fields whose components are fractions with a common denominator vanishing on a smooth regular hypersurface in the phase space. We assume also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Roberta Ghezzi , Alexey Remizov

A vector field on a Riemannian manifold is called conformal Killing if it generates one-parameter group of conformal transformations. The class of conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields of an arbitrary rank is a natural generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Nurlan S. Dairbekov , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We present a gradient-based algorithm for unconstrained minimization derived from iterated linear change of basis. The new method is equivalent to linear conjugate gradient in the case of a quadratic objective function. In the case of exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-08-19 Stephen A. Vavasis

The purpose of this paper is to present three new methods for finding all simple zeros of polynomials simultaneously. First, we give a new method for finding simultaneously all simple zeros of polynomials constructed by applying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Jun-Seop Song

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

We prove that any noncompact symplectic manifold which admits a properly embedded ray with a wide neighborhood is symplectomorphic to the complement of the ray by constructing an explicit symplectomorphism in the case of the standard…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Xiudi Tang

Null points are important locations in vector fields, such as a magnetic field. A new technique (a trilinear method for finding null points) is presented for finding null points over a large grid of points, such as those derived from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew L. Haynes , Clare E. Parnell

In this paper, we propose a vector transport-free stochastic variance reduced gradient (SVRG) method with general retraction for empirical risk minimization over Riemannian manifold. Existing SVRG methods on manifold usually consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So , Shuzhong Zhang

We investigate how the divergence-free property of magnetic fields can be exploited to resolve the azimuthal ambiguity present in solar vector magnetogram data, by using line-of-sight and horizontal heliographic derivative information as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Ashley D. Crouch , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka

We present a new approach for matching regular surfaces in a Riemannian setting. We use a Sobolev type metric on deformation vector fields which form the tangent bundle to the space of surfaces. In this article we compare our approach with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris

Let $M$ be a non-compact connected manifold with a cocompact and properly discontinuous action of a discrete group $G$. We establish a Poincar\'{e}-Hopf theorem for a bounded vector field on $M$ satisfying a mild condition on zeros. As an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Tsuyoshi Kato , Daisuke Kishimoto , Mitsunobu Tsutaya

We consider manifolds with isolated singularities, i.e., topological spaces which are manifolds (say, $C^\infty$--) outside discrete subsets (sets of singular points). For (germs of) manifolds with, so called, cone--like singularities, a…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Ebeling , Sabir M. Gusein-Zade

In this paper we provide a new method for establishing the rotational symmetry of the solutions to a couple of very classical overdetermined problems arising in potential theory, in both the exterior and the interior punctured domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Virginia Agostiniani , Lorenzo Mazzieri

We propose Riemannian preconditioned algorithms for the tensor completion problem via tensor ring decomposition. A new Riemannian metric is developed on the product space of the mode-2 unfolding matrices of the core tensors in tensor ring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Bin Gao , Renfeng Peng , Ya-xiang Yuan

We investigate special Killing vector fields on 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of biwarped product-type. Starting from a diagonal metric on $\mathbb R^3$ determined by two nontrivial warping functions and a constant scaling factor, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Adara M. Blaga

Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh