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We generalize classical large deviations theorems to the setting of complete Riemannian manifolds. We prove the analogue of Mogulskii's theorem for geodesic random walks via a general approach using visocity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Richard C. Kraaij , Frank Redig , Rik Versendaal

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

We prove existence and uniqueness results for conical geodesic bicombings on subsets of normed vector spaces. Concerning existence, we give a first example of a non-consistent convex geodesic bicombing. Furthermore, we show that under a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Giuliano Basso , Benjamin Miesch

We prove that Riemannian metrics with an absolute Ricci curvature bound and a conjugate radius bound can be smoothed to having a sectional curvature bound. Using this we derive a number of results about structures of manifolds with Ricci…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Xianzhe Dai , Guofang Wei , Rugang Ye

Considering Riemannian submersions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for when sub-Riemannian normal geodesics project to curves of constant first geodesic curvature or constant first and vanishing second geodesic curvatures. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Erlend Grong , Irina Markina

In this paper we give a new, and shorter, proof of Huber's theorem which affirms that for a connected open Riemann surface endowed with a complete conformal Riemannian metric, if the negative part of its Gaussian curvature has finite mass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Chen Zhou

In this paper we will investigate the global properties of complete Hilbert manifolds with upper and lower bounded sectional curvature. We shall prove the Focal Index Lemma that we will allow us to extend some classical results of finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Biliotti

A real projective orbifold has a radial end if a neighborhood of the end is foliated by projective geodesics that develop into geodesics ending at a common point. It has a totally geodesic end if the end can be completed to have the totally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Suhyoung Choi

A piecewise flat Finsler metric on a triangulated surface $M$ is a metric whose restriction to any triangle is a flat triangle in some Minkowski space with straight edges. One of the main purposes of this work is to study the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Ming Xu , Shaoqiang Deng

The paper is devoted to differential geometry of singular distributions (i.e., of varying dimension) on a Riemannian manifold. Such distributions are defined as images of the tangent bundle under smooth endomorphisms. We prove the novel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Paul Popescu , Vladimir Rovenski

We present a new equation with respect to a unit vector field on Riemannian manifold $M^n$ such that its solution defines a totally geodesic submanifold in the unit tangent bundle with Sasaki metric and apply it to some classes of unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yampolsky

We generalize Gr\"unbaum's classical inequality in convex geometry to curved spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature, precisely, to $\mathrm{RCD}(0,N)$-spaces with $N \in (1,\infty)$ as well as weighted Riemannian manifolds of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel , Shin-ichi Ohta , Jordan Serres

We establish an integral inequality for the Ricci curvature of a certain class of warped products $M\times_fN$, where the equality holds if and only if it is simply a Riemannian product. We also give a sufficient condition for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Josué Meléndez , Eduardo Rodríguez-Romero , Jonatán Torres Orozco

In spaces of nonpositive curvature the existence of isometrically embedded flat (hyper)planes is often granted by apparently weaker conditions on large scales. We show that some such results remain valid for metric spaces with non-unique…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Dominic Descombes , Urs Lang

A real projective orbifold is an $n$-dimensional orbifold modeled on $\mathbb{RP}^n$ with the group $PGL(n+1, \mathbb{R})$. We concentrate on an orbifold that contains a compact codimension $0$ submanifold whose complement is a union of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Suhyoung Choi

We analyze a variational time discretization of geodesic calculus on finite- and certain classes of infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the fundamental properties of discrete geodesics, the associated discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We prove that any smooth Riemannian manifold of non-negative scalar curvature and with a strictly mean convex and compact boundary component can be (C^2) extended beyond the component to have non-negative scalar curvature and to enjoy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Martin Reiris

We study the transversally harmonic maps between foliated Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we prove that under some curvature conditions, any transversally harmonic map is transversally totally geodesic.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Min Joo Jung , Seoung Dal Jung

After introducing the different boundary geometries of rank one symmetric spaces, we state and prove Fried's theorem in the general setting of all those geometries: a closed manifold with a similarity structure is either complete or the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Raphaël Alexandre

We study the Riemannian distance function from a fixed point (a point-wise target) of Euclidean space in the presence of a compact obstacle bounded by a smooth hypersurface. First, we show that such a function is locally semiconcave with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Paolo Albano , Vincenzo Basco , Piermarco Cannarsa