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We introduce on any smooth oriented minimal surface in Euclidean $3$-space a meromorphic quadratic differential, $P$, which we call the entropy differential. This differential arises naturally in a number of different contexts. Of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Jacob Bernstein , Thomas Mettler

Following Geroch, Traschen, Mars and Senovilla, we consider Lorentzian manifolds with distributional curvature tensor. Such manifolds represent spacetimes of general relativity that possibly contain gravitational waves, shock waves, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare

This paper is concerned with the computation of an optimal matching between two manifold-valued curves. Curves are seen as elements of an infinite-dimensional manifold and compared using a Riemannian metric that is invariant under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Alice Le Brigant , Marc Arnaudon , Frédéric Barbaresco

We provide the first non-trivial examples of quasi-isometric embeddings between curve complexes. These are induced either by puncturing a closed surface or via orbifold coverings. As a corollary, we give new quasi-isometric embeddings…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Kasra Rafi , Saul Schleimer

Other than vector representations, the direct objects of human cognition are generally high-order tensors, such as 2D images and 3D textures. From this fact, two interesting questions naturally arise: How does the human brain represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Guoqiang Zhong , Mohamed Cheriet

The purpose of this article is to find a family of curves parametrized by arc length and that depend on an angular function and an intrinsic fraction function, which is defined as the quotient between torsion and curvature. We find for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Héctor Efrén Guerrero Mora

Using the theory of extensors developed in a previous paper we present a theory of the parallelism structure on arbitrary smooth manifold. Two kinds of Cartan connection operators are introduced and both appear in intrinsic versions (i.e.,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Fernandez , A. M. Moya , E. Notte-Cuello , W. A. Rodrigues

We study the graded geometric point of view of curvature and torsion of Q-manifolds (differential graded manifolds). In particular, we get a natural graded geometric definition of Courant algebroid curvature and torsion, which correctly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Paolo Aschieri , Francesco Bonechi , Andreas Deser

Matrix configurations coming from matrix models comprise many important aspects of modern physics. They represent special quantum spaces and are thus strongly related to noncommutative geometry. In order to establish a semiclassical limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Laura Olivia Felder

The combination of words ``discrete curvature'' is only an apparent contradiction. In this survey we describe curvature notions associated with polygons, polyhedral surfaces, and with abstract polyhedral manifolds. Several theorems about…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Ivan Izmestiev

This is a review of the basic concepts of the theory of real and complex smooth vector bundles with finite rank. Besides, the concept of a tensor field is studied within the general framework of a smooth vector bundle rather than a smooth…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Farzad Shahi

Topological invariants such as winding numbers and linking numbers appear as charges of topological solitons in diverse nonlinear physical systems described by a unit vector field defined on two and three dimensional manifolds. While the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-23 Radha Balakrishnan , Rossen Dandoloff , Avadh Saxena

We prove integral curvature bounds in terms of the Betti numbers for compact submanifolds of the Euclidean space with low codimension. As an application, we obtain topological obstructions for $\delta$-pinched immersions. Furthermore, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Christos-Raent Onti , Theodoros Vlachos

Geometri is one of branch of the branch of mathematics that plays a major role in the development of science and technology. Thus, knowing the geometry concept is needed for students from their early basic level of thinking. A preliminary…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-05-01 F R Fiantika , I K Budayasa , A Lukito

We introduce a generalization of structured manifolds as the most general Riemannian metric g associated to an affinor (tensor field of (1,1)-type) F and initiate a study of their semi-invariant submanifolds. These submanifolds are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Novac-Claudiu Chiriac , Mircea Crasmareanu

A parametric manifold is a manifold on which all tensor fields depend on an additional parameter, such as time, together with a parametric structure, namely a given (parametric) 1-form field. Such a manifold admits natural generalizations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Stuart Boersma , Tevian Dray

How does one generalize differential geometric constructs such as curvature of a manifold to the discrete world of graphs and other combinatorial structures? This problem carries significant importance for analyzing models of discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 J. F. Du Plessis , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

First introduced to describe surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$, the Willmore invariant is a conformally-invariant extrinsic scalar curvature of a surface that vanishes when the surface minimizes bending and stretching. Both this invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Samuel Blitz

The shape invariant of a symplectic manifold encodes the possible area classes of embedded Lagrangian tori. Potentially this is a powerful invariant, but for most manifolds the shape is unknown. We compute the shape for 4 dimensional…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Richard Hind , Jun Zhang

This thesis is devoted to the Differential Geometry of curves and surfaces along with applications in Quantum Mechanics. In the 1st part we introduce the well known Frenet frame. Later, we show that the curvature function is a lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Luiz C. B. da Silva