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We study compact and simply-connected Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature $K\ge 1.$ For a non-trivial homology class of lowest dimension in the space of loops based at a point $p$ or in the free loop space one can define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Hans-Bert Rademacher

The motion of particles on spherical $1 + 3$ dimensional spacetimes can, under some assumptions, be described by the curves on a 2-dimensional manifold, the optical and Jacobi manifolds for null and timelike curves, respectively. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-01 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , João P. A. Novo

We investigate (local) automorphisms of parabolic geometries that generalize geodesic symmetries. We show that many types of parabolic geometries admit at most one generalized geodesic symmetry at a point with non-zero harmonic curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Jan Gregorovič , Lenka Zalabová

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 the 1970s, the collar theorem was proven, establishing the existence of uniform tubular neighborhoods of simple closed geodesics on compact surfaces, whose widths depend only on the lengths of the geodesics and the lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Peter Buser , Jose M. Rodriguez

We obtain existence and convergence theorems on two variants of the proximal point algorithm for proper lower semicontinuous convex functions in complete geodesic spaces with curvature bounded above.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Yasunori Kimura , Fumiaki Kohsaka

We introduce a notion of geodesic curvature $k_{\zeta}$ for a smooth horizontal curve $\zeta$ in a three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifold, measuring how much a horizontal curve is far from being a geodesic. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Davide Barilari , Mathieu Kohli

Timelike sectional curvature bounds play an important role in spacetime geometry, both for the understanding of classical smooth spacetimes and for the study of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces introduced in \cite{kunzinger2018lorentzian}. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Felix Rott

We consider upper bounds on the growth of $L^p$ norms of restrictions of eigenfunctions and quasimodes to geodesic segments in a nonpositively curved manifold in the high frequency limit. This sharpens results of Chen and Sogge as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Matthew D. Blair

We define a norm on homology of punctured tori equipped with a complete hyperbolic metric of finite volume and use it to find asymptotics on the growth of the number of simple geodesics of bounded length.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Greg McShane , Igor Rivin

In this article, we study the pointwise asymptotic behavior of iterated convolutions on the one dimensional lattice Z. We generalize the so-called local limit theorem in probability theory to complex valued sequences. A sharp rate of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Lucas Coeuret

In this note we show that for any hyperbolic surface S, the number of geodesics of length bounded above by L in the mapping class group orbit of a fixed closed geodesic with a single double point is asymptotic to L raised to the dimension…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Igor Rivin

We develop the notion of the active interval for a subsurface along a geodesic in the Thurston metric on Teichmuller space of a surface S. That is, for any geodesic in the Thurston metric and any subsurface R of S, we find an interval of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Anna Lenzhen , Babak Modami , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

Let $S_{g,n}$ be a surface of genus $g $ with $n$ marked points. Let $X$ be a complete hyperbolic metric on $S_{g,n}$ with $n$ cusps. Every isotopy class $[\gamma]$ of a closed curve $\gamma \in \pi_{1}(S_{g,n})$ contains a unique closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Maryam Mirzakhani

We use the concept of barrier-based smoothing approximations introduced in [ C. B. Chua and Z. Li, A barrier-based smoothing proximal point algorithm for NCPs over closed convex cones, SIOPT 23(2), 2010] to extend the non-interior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Chek Beng Chua

We prove that closed negatively curved locally symmetric spaces are characterized up to isometry among all homotopy equivalent negatively curved manifolds by the Lyapunov spectra of the periodic orbits of their geodesic flows. This is done…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Clark Butler

We discuss upper and lower bounds for the size of gaps in the length spectrum of negatively curved manifolds. For manifolds with algebraic generators for the fundamental group, we establish the existence of exponential lower bounds for the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Dmitry Dolgopyat , Dmitry Jakobson

The aim of the present paper is to study the distributions of the length multiplicities for negatively curved locally symmetric Riemannian manifolds. In Theorem 2.1, we give upper bounds of the length multiplicities and the square sums of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Yasufumi Hashimoto

The intent of this paper is to describe the large scale asymptotic geometry of iteration stable (STIT) tessellations in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which form a rather new, rich and flexible class of random tessellations considered in stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-25 Tomasz Schreiber , Christoph Thaele

We present an intrinsic Klotz-Osserman type theorem for surfaces in terms of Codazzi operators. Additionally, utilizing Simons' formula, we investigate surfaces with parallel mean curvature with non-positive Gaussian curvature in product…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Felippe Guimarães