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Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

This article provides an overview of various notions of shape spaces, including the space of parametrized and unparametrized curves, the space of immersions, the diffeomorphism group and the space of Riemannian metrics. We discuss the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Peter W. Michor

In this work we evaluate the physical acceptability of relativistic anisotropic spheres modeled by two polytropic equations of state -- with the same newtonian limit -- commonly used to describe compact objects in General Relativity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 D. Suárez-Urango , L. A. Núñez , H. Hernández

Spatial curvature is one of the fundamental cosmological parameters that is routinely constrained from observations. The forward modelling of observations, in particular of large-scale structure, often relies on large cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Julian Adamek , Renan Boschetti

The existence of two geometrically distinct closed geodesics on an $n$-dimensional sphere $S^n$ with a non-reversible and bumpy Finsler metric was shown independently by Duan--Long [7] and the author [27]. We simplify the proof of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Hans-Bert Rademacher

In this paper, we study bijections on strictly convex sets of $\mathbf R \mathbf P^n$ for $n \geq 2$ and closed convex projective surfaces equipped with the Hilbert metric that map complete geodesics to complete geodesics as sets.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Drimik Roy Chowdhury

For a path in a compact finite dimensional Alexandrov space $X$ with curv $\ge \kappa$, the two basic geometric invariants are the length and the turning angle (which measures the closeness from being a geodesic). We show that the sum of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Nan Li , Xiaochun Rong

In Euclidean space, it is well known that any integration by parts formula for a set of finite perimeter $\Omega$ is expressed by the integration with respect to a measure $P(\Omega,\cdot)$ which is equivalent to the one-codimensional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Davide Addona , Giorgio Menegatti , Michele Miranda

We introduce a model of the set of all Polish (=separable complete metric) spaces: the cone $\cal R$ of distance matrices, and consider geometric and probabilistic problems connected with this object. The notion of the universal distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Vershik

We investigate the local structure of the space $\mathcal{M}$ consisting of isometry classes of compact metric spaces, endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff metric. We consider finite metric spaces of the same cardinality and suppose that these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Alexander O. Ivanov , Alexey A. Tuzhilin

A polygonal complex in euclidean 3-space is a discrete polyhedron-like structure with finite or infinite polygons as faces and finite graphs as vertex-figures, such that a fixed number r of faces surround each edge. It is said to be regular…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-08 Daniel Pellicer , Egon Schulte

We give a generalization to higher dimensions of Silverman's result on finiteness of integer points in orbits. Assuming Vojta's conjecture, we prove a sufficient condition for morphisms on P^N so that (S,D)-integral points in each orbit are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Yu Yasufuku

We study geometrical confinement effects in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8 +\delta}$ mesoscopic vortex-matter with edge-to-surface ratio of $7-12$%. Samples have in-plane square and circular edges, 30\,$\mu$m widths, and $\sim 2\,\mu$m…

We study the boundary of the "Jewel space" $\mathcal J_n$ constructed in arXiv:1709.01296. This is an equivariant deformation retract of Outer space $CV_n$ on which $Out(F_n)$ acts properly and cocompactly, and is homeomorphic to the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Karen Vogtmann

We develop a Morse-Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for the distance between two points of a smoothly embedded circle in a complete Riemannian manifold. This theory suggests very naturally a definition of width that generalises the classical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Lucas Ambrozio , Rafael Montezuma , Roney Santos

It is hard to imagine curved spacetimes of General Relativity. A simple but powerful way how to achieve this is visualizing them via embedding diagrams of both ordinary geometry and optical reference geometry. They facilitate to gain an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Stanislav Hledik , Zdenek Stuchlik , Alois Cipko

Given a geodesic inside a simply-connected, complete, non-positively curved Riemannian (NPCR) manifold M, we get an associated geodesic inside the asymptotic cone Cone(M). Under mild hypotheses, we show that if the latter is contained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-24 S. Francaviglia , J. -F. Lafont

Suppose that N is a geometrically finite orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold. Let P(N,C) be the space of all geometrically finite hyperbolic structures on N whose convex core is bent along a set C of simple closed curves. We prove that the map…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Young-Eun Choi , Caroline Series

Let $\mathcal{W}^{n}$ be the class of $C^{\infty }$ complete simply connected $n-$dimensional manifolds without conjugate points. The hyperbolic space as well as Euclidean space are good examples of such manifolds. Let $% W\in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Sameh Shenawy

It is well known that a compact two dimensional surface is homeomorphic to a polygon with the edges identified in pairs. This paper not only presents a new proof of this statement but also generalizes it for any connected n-dimensional…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Nikitin