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We outline an algorithm for construction of functional bases of absolute invariants under the rotation group for sets of rank 2 tensors and vectors in the Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension. We will use our earlier results for symmetric…

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Contrast functions play a fundamental role in information geometry, providing a means for generating the geometric structures of a statistical manifold: a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate affine connections.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Florio M. Ciaglia , Giuseppe Marmo , Marco Pacelli , Luca Schiavone , Alessandro Zampini

We study transnormal and isoparametric functions on closed Riemannian 4-manifolds and establish fundamental restrictions on their topology and geometry. In particular, we show that such manifolds cannot be endowed with negatively curved…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Minghao Li

Generalized Functions play a central role in the understanding of differential equations containing singularities and nonlinearities. Introducing infinitesimals and infinities to deal with these obstructions leads to controversies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Juriaans , S. O. , Queiroz , P. C

We argue for more widespread use of manifold-like polyfolds (M-polyfolds) as differential geometric objects. M-polyfolds possess a distinct advantage over differentiable manifolds, enabling a smooth and local change of dimension. To…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Per Åhag , Rafał Czyż , Håkan Samuelsson Kalm , Aron Persson

This is a survey of some recent results concerning polynomial inequalities and polynomial approximation of functions in the complex plane. The results are achieved by the application of methods and techniques of modern geometric function…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Andrievskii

We present an extended version of Riemannian geometry suitable for the description of current formulations of double field theory (DFT). This framework is based on graded manifolds and it yields extended notions of symmetries, dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-03 Andreas Deser , Christian Saemann

An algorithm is given for computing explicit formulas for the generators of relations among the invariant rational functions for vector-valued bilinear forms. These formulas have applications in the geometry of Riemannian submanifolds and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Garrity , Zachary Grossman

The search for a potential function $S$ allowing to reconstruct a given metric tensor $g$ and a given symmetric covariant tensor $T$ on a manifold $\mathcal{M}$ is formulated as the Hamilton-Jacobi problem associated with a canonically…

In this paper, we want to give an exposition of our recent work on linear and nonlinear potential theory and their applications in conformal geometry. We use potential theory to study linear and quasilinear equations arising from conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Shiguang Ma , Jie Qing

We use spectral theory to produce embeddings of distributions in the algebras of generalized functions on a closed Riemannian manifold. These embeddings are invariant under isometries and preserve the singularity structure of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-14 Shantanu Dave

Motivated by the geometrical structures of quantum mechanics, we introduce an almost-complex structure $J$ on the product $M\times M$ of any parallelizable statistical manifold $M$. Then, we use $J$ to extract a pre-symplectic form and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Armando Figueroa , Giuseppe Marmo , Luca Schiavone

We study inverse statistical mechanics: how can one design a potential function so as to produce a specified ground state? In this paper, we show that unexpectedly simple potential functions suffice for certain symmetrical configurations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Abhinav Kumar

We introduce and study the notion of plurisubharmonic functions in calibrated geometry. These functions generalize the classical plurisubharmonic functions from complex geometry and enjoy their important properties. Moreover, they exist in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-12 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

Integral representations of hypergeometric functions proved to be a very useful tool for studying their properties. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we extend the known representations to arbitrary values of the parameters and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-06 D. Karp , J. L. López

Differential geometry may be generalized to allow infinitesimals to any order. The purpose of the present contribution is to show that the theory so developed expands received geometrical ideas in an interesting way, rich in potential for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-07 William Bies

The double-layer potential plays an important role in solving boundary value problems for elliptic equations, and in the study of which for a certain equation, the properties of the fundamental solutions of the given equation are used. All…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Tuhtasin Ergashev

Consider a Riemannian manifold in dimension $n\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary. We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, of the geodesic ray transform on tensor fields of rank four near a boundary point. This problem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Maarten V. de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We give a full classification of general affine connections on Galilei manifolds in terms of independently specifiable tensor fields. This generalises the well-known case of (torsional) Galilei connections, i.e. connections compatible with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Philip K. Schwartz

We introduce a generalization of symmetric functions and apply the resulting theory to compute the class in the Grothendieck ring of varieties of the space of geometrically irreducible hypersurfaces of a fixed degree in projective space.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Asvin G , Andrew O'Desky
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