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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 István Rácz

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther

Sectional curvature bounds are of central importance in the study of Riemannian manifolds, both in smooth differential geometry and in the generalized synthetic setting of Alexandrov spaces. Riemannian metrics along with metric spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Darius Erös , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

It is shown that many results, previously believed to be properties of the Lichnerowicz Ricci curvature, hold for the Ricci curvature of all Gauduchon connections. We prove the existence of $t$--Gauduchon Ricci-flat metrics on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Kyle Broder , James Stanfield

A meromorphic quadratic differential on a punctured Riemann surface induces horizontal and vertical measured foliations with pole-singularities. In a neighborhood of a pole such a foliation comprises foliated strips and half-planes, and its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Kealey Dias , Subhojoy Gupta , Maria Trnkova

We prove that an open manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, linear volume growth and noncollapsed ends always splits off a line at infinity. This completes the final step to prove the existence of isoperimetric sets given large volumes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Xingyu Zhu

We study the geometry of a codimension-one foliation with a time-dependent Riemannian metric. The work begins with formulae concerning deformations of geometric quantities as the Riemannian metric varies along the leaves of the foliation.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Vladimir Rovenski

The sharp isoperimetric inequality for non-compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth has been obtained in increasing generality with different approaches in a number of contributions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Fabio Cavalletti , Davide Manini

We first extend Cheeger-Colding Almost Splitting Theorem to smooth metric measure spaces. Arguments utilizing this extension of the Almost Splitting Theorem show that if a smooth metric measure space has almost nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Maree Jaramillo

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 establish lower semicontinuity results for perimeter functionals with measure data on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and deduce the existence of minimizers to these functionals with Dirichlet boundary conditions, obstacles, or volume-constraints. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Thomas Schmidt

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

On the domain of a Riemannian submersion, we consider variations (i.e., smooth one-parameter families) of Riemannian metrics, for which the submersion is Riemannian and which all keep the metric induced on its fibers fixed. We obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Tomasz Zawadzki

We generalize the splitting theorem of Cai-Galloway for complete Riemannian manifolds with $\Ric\geq-(n-1)$ admitting a family of compact hypersurfaces tending to infinity with mean curvatures tending to $n-1$ sufficiently fast to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Jeffrey S. Case , Peng Wu

We show that on every manifold, every conformal class of semi-Riemannian metrics contains a metric $g$ such that each $k$-th-order covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor of $g$ has bounded absolute value $a_k$. This result is new also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Olaf Müller , Marc Nardmann

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$, admitting a scalar-flat conformal metric. We prove that the supremum of the isoperimetric ratio over the scalar-flat conformal class is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Xuezhang Chen , Tianling Jin , Yuping Ruan

Pulling back complex structures along a branched covering induces a holomorphic isometric embedding of Teichm\"uller spaces. We show that for dimension at least $2$, all isometric embeddings arise from branched coverings. This generalizes a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Frederik Benirschke , Carlos A. Serván

For a metric measure space, we treat the set of distributions of 1-Lipschitz functions, which is called the 1-measurement. On the 1-measurement, we have a partial order relation by the Lipschitz order introduced by Gromov. The aim of this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Hiroki Nakajima

We obtain an optimal deviation from the mean upper bound \begin{equation} D(x)\=\sup_{f\in \F}\mu\{f-\E_{\mu} f\geq x\},\qquad\ \text{for}\ x\in\R\label{abstr} \end{equation} where $\F$ is the class of the integrable, Lipschitz functions on…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Dainius Dzindzalieta

This paper provides rates of convergence for empirical (generalised) barycenters on compact geodesic metric spaces under general conditions using empirical processes techniques. Our main assumption is termed a variance inequality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Adil Ahidar-Coutrix , Thibaut Le Gouic , Quentin Paris