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According to the pioneering work of Nielsen and collaborators, the length of the minimal geodesic in a geometric realization of a suitable operator space provides a measure of the quantum complexity of an operation. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

The realization space of geometric constraint systems is given by the vanishing locus of polynomials corresponding to natural geometric constraints. Such geometric constraint systems arise in many real-world scenarios such as structural…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Matthias Adrian-Himmelmann

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

In this short note we observe that the higher topological complexity of an iterated connected sum of real projective spaces is maximal possible. Unlike the case of regular TC, the result is accessible through easy mod 2 zero-divisor…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Jorge Aguilar-Guzmán , Jesús González

We solve explicitly the geodesic equation for a wide class of (pseudo)-Riemannian homogeneous manifolds (G/H,m), including those with G compact, as well as non-compact semisimple Lie groups, under a simple algebraic condition for the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

A geodesic orbit manifold (GO manifold) is a Riemannian manifold (M,g) with the property that any geodesic in M is an orbit of a one-parameter subgroup of a group G of isometries of (M,g). The metric g is then called a G-GO metric in M. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

It is proved that the Gromov-Hausdorff metric on the space of compact metric spaces considered up to an isometry is strictly intrinsic, i.e., the corresponding metric space is geodesic. In other words, each two points of this space (each…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Alexandr Ivanov , Nadezhda Nikolaeva , Alexey Tuzhilin

Inspired by group cohomology, we define several coarse topological invariants of metric spaces. We define the coarse cohomological dimension of a metric space, and demonstrate that if G is a countable group, then the coarse cohomological…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Alexander Margolis

Topological complexity is a homotopy invariant that measures the minimal number of continuous rules required for motion planning in a space. In this work, we introduce persistent analogs of topological complexity and its cohomological lower…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Facundo Mémoli , Ling Zhou

In this manuscript, we show how conformal invariance can be incorporated in a classical theory of gravitation, in the context of metric measure space. Metric measure space involves a geometrical scalar $f$, dubbed as density function, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Hossein Shojaie

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 design a motion planning algorithm to coordinate the movements of two robots along a figure eight track, in such a way that no collisions occur. We use a topological approach to robot motion planning that relates instabilities in motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Cristian Jardon , Brian Sheppard , Veet Zaveri

Geodesic distance serves as a reliable means of measuring distance in nonlinear spaces, and such nonlinear manifolds are prevalent in the current multimodal learning. In these scenarios, some samples may exhibit high similarity, yet they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shibin Mei , Hang Wang , Bingbing Ni

This book introduces the new research area of Geometric Data Science, where data can represent any real objects through geometric measurements. The first part of the book focuses on finite point sets. The most important result is a complete…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Olga D Anosova , Vitaliy A Kurlin

Similarity distance measure between two trajectories is an essential tool to understand patterns in motion, for example, in Human-Robot Interaction or Imitation Learning. The problem has been faced in many fields, from Signal Processing,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Julen Urain , Jan Peters

Timelike geodesics on a hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis of the G\"odel spacetime appear to be elliptic-like if standard coordinates naturally adapted to the cylindrical symmetry are used. The orbit can then be suitably described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-27 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Wolfango Plastino

The action in general relativity (GR), which is an integral over the manifold plus an integral over the boundary, is a global object and is only well defined when the topology is fixed. Therefore, to use the action in GR and in most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Coley

We introduce and study the proper topological complexity of a given configuration space, a version of the classical invariant for which we require that the algorithm controlling the motion is able to avoid any possible choice of ``unsafe''…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jose M. Garcia-Calcines , Aniceto Murillo

We provide a self-contained geometric description of the geodesic flow in the three-dimensional Lie group $\mathrm{Sol}$, one of Thurston's eight model geometries. The geometry of geodesics is governed by a single invariant $k\in[0,1]$, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Marc Troyanov

We propose to apply the idea of analytical continuation in the complex domain to the problem of geodesic completeness. We shall analyse rather in detail the cases of analytical warped products of real lines, these ones in parallel with…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Claudio Meneghini