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Consider an orientable compact surface in three dimensional Euclidean space with minimum total absolute curvature. If the Gaussian curvature changes sign to finite order and satisfies a nondegeneracy condition along closed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

We study stability properties of the topological entropy of Reeb flows on contact 3-manifolds with respect to the C^0-distance on the space of contact forms. Our main results show that a C^\infty-generic contact form on a closed co-oriented…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Lucas Dahinden , Matthias Meiwes , Abror Pirnapasov

In this work, we study various properties of embedded hypersurfaces in $1+1+2$ decomposed spacetimes with a preferred spatial direction, denoted $e^{\mu}$, which are orthogonal to the fluid flow velocity of the spacetime and admit a proper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Abbas M. Sherif , Peter K. S. Dunsby

We determine the homeomorphism type of the space of smooth complete nonnegatively curved metrics on surfaces of positive Euler characteristic equipped with the topology of $C^\gamma$ uniform convergence on compact sets, when $\gamma$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Taras Banakh , Igor Belegradek

The relative entropy of the massive free bosonic field theory is studied on various compact Riemann surfaces as a universal quantity with physical significance, in particular, for gravitational phenomena. The exact expression for the sphere…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Gaite

In this article we investigate the dynamical properties of the geodesic flow for a proper metric space endowed with a proper action by isometries of a group with a contracting element. We show that the existence of a contracting isometry is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Rémi Coulon

We extend the results of Riemannian geometry over finite groups and provide a full classification of all linear connections for the minimal noncommutative differential calculus over a finite cyclic group. We solve the torsion-free and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Arkadiusz Bochniak , Andrzej Sitarz , Paweł Zalecki

The geometry of closed surfaces equipped with a Euclidean metric with finitely many conical points of arbitrary angle is studied. The main result is that the set of closed geodesics is dense in the space of geodesics.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

We prove the existence of $C^{1,1}$ isometric immersions of several classes of metrics on surfaces $(\mathcal{M},g)$ into the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$, where the metrics $g$ have strictly negative curvature. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Siran Li

In 2004, Taubes introduced the space of minimal hyperbolic germs with elements consisting of the first and second fundamental form of an equivariant immersed minimal disk in hyperbolic 3-space. Herein, we initiate a further study of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Andrew Sanders

For analytic negatively curved Riemannian manifold with analytic strictly convex boundary, we show that the scattering map for the geodesic flow determines the manifold up to isometry. In particular one recovers both the topology and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yannick Guedes Bonthonneau , Colin Guillarmou , Malo Jézéquel

We are interested in the impact of entropies on the geometry of a hypersurface of a Riemannian manifold. In fact, we will be able to compare the volume entropy of a hypersurface with that of the ambient manifold, provided some geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Said Ilias , Barbara Nelli , Marc Soret

We give a proof of an unpublished result of Thurston showing that given any hyperbolic metric on a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, there exists another hyperbolic metric on the same surface for which the lengths of all simple…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Athanase Papadopoulos , Guillaume Théret

We prove uniform convergence of metrics $g_k$ on a closed surface with bounded integral curvature (measure) in the sense of A.D. Alexandrov, under the assumption that the curvature measures $\mathbb{K}_{g_k}=\mu^1_k-\mu^2_k$, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jingyi Chen , Yuxiang Li

We show that, on an oriented compact surface, two sufficiently $C^2$-close Riemannian metrics with strictly convex boundary, no conjugate points, hyperbolic trapped set for their geodesic flows, and same marked boundary distance, are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Colin Guillarmou , Marco Mazzucchelli

The notion of entropy appears in many fields and this paper is a survey about entropies in several branches of Mathematics. We are mainly concerned with the topological and the algebraic entropy in the context of continuous endomorphisms of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Dikran Dikranjan , Anna Giordano Bruno

We consider metrics related to each other by functionals of a scalar field $\varphi(x)$ and it's gradient $\nabla \varphi(x)$, and give transformations of some key geometric quantities associated with such metrics. Our analysis provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-24 Dawood Kothawala

We show that $C^\infty$ surface diffeomorphisms with positive topological entropy have at most finitely many ergodic measures of maximal entropy in general, and at most one in the topologically transitive case. This answers a question of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Jérôme Buzzi , Sylvain Crovisier , Omri Sarig

The famous Uniformization Theorem states that on closed Riemannian surfaces there always exists a metric of constant curvature for the Levi-Cevita connection. In this article we prove that an analogue of the uniformization theorem also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Volker Branding , Klaus Kroencke

We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo