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We extend the result of Lisini (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 28:85-120, 2007) on the superposition principle for absolutely continuous curves in $p$-Wasserstein spaces to the special case of $p=1$. In contrast to the case of $p>1$, it is not…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ehsan Abedi , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz

We study the order of lengths of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Our first main result is that the order of lengths of curves determine a point in Teichm\"uller space. In an opposite direction, we identify classes of curves whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Hugo Parlier , Hanh Vo , Binbin Xu

We consider volume-preserving flows $(\Phi^f_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ on $S\times \mathbb{R}$, where $S$ is a closed connected surface of genus $g\geq 2$ and $(\Phi^f_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ has the form $\Phi^f_t(x,y)=(\phi_tx,y+\int_0^t…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Krzysztof Fraczek , Corinna Ulcigrai

We present a new implementation of anisotropic mean curvature flow for contour recognition. Our procedure couples the mean curvature flow of planar closed smooth curves, with an external field from a potential of point-wise charges. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-08 P. Suárez-Serrato , E. I. Velázquez Richards

We present a brief but nearly self-contained proof of a formula for the Weil-Petersson Hessian of the geodesic length of a closed curve (either simple or not simple) on a hyperbolic surface. The formula is the sum of the integrals of two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Michael Wolf

We investigate the motion of a family of closed curves evolving according to the geometric evolution law on a given two dimensional manifold which is embedded or immersed in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. We derive a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We introduce a geometric evolution equation of hyperbolic type, which governs the evolution of a hypersurface moving in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The flow stems from a geometrically natural action containing kinetic and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Philippe G. LeFloch , Knut Smoczyk

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface in ${\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed is given by a smooth function depending only on the mean curvature, and satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Shunzi Guo

This paper gives some examples of hypersurfaces $\phi_t(M^n)$ evolving in time with speed determined by functions of the normal curvatures in an $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold; we emphasize the case of flow by harmonic mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Robert Gulliver , Guoyi Xu

This paper is the sequel of the paper "Continuity of volumes on arithmetic varieties", in which we established the arithmetic volume function of smooth hermitian Q-invertible sheaves and proved its continuity. The continuity of the volume…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Atsushi Moriwaki

We study the geodesic flow of a compact surface without conjugate points and genus greater than one and continuous Green bundles. Identifying each strip of bi-asymptotic geodesics induces an equivalence relation on the unit tangent bundle.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Rafael O. Ruggiero , Katrin Gelfert

We develop the theory of discrete-time gradient flows for convex functions on Alexandrov spaces with arbitrary upper or lower curvature bounds. We employ different resolvent maps in the upper and lower curvature bound cases to construct…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Shin-ichi Ohta , Miklós Pálfia

We consider the Gauss curvature type flow for uniformly convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\ (n\geqslant 2)$. We prove that if the initial closed hypersurface is smooth and uniformly convex, then the smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Tianci Luo , Rong Zhou

We construct explicit examples of geodesics in the mapping class group and show that the shadow of a geodesic in mapping class group to the curve graph does not have to be a quasi-geodesic. We also show that the quasi-axis of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Kasra Rafi , Yvon Verberne

We define winding numbers of regular closed curves on surfaces with a nice euclidean or hyperbolic geometry. We prove that two regular closed curves are regularly homotopic if and only if they are freely homotopic and have the same winding…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Masayuki Yamasaki

In this paper, we study the evolution of smooth, closed planar curves under a fourth order biharmonic flow with an external forcing term. Such flows arise naturally in the theory of biharmonic maps and geometric variational problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Mohammad Javad Habibi Vosta Kolaei

We present evidence indicating that Anosov systems can be endowed with a unique physically reasonable effective temperature. Results for the two paradigmatic Anosov systems (i.e., the cat map and the geodesic flow on a surface of constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-01 Steven Huntsman

In this article we study geodesic flows on closed Riemannian manifolds without conjugate points and divergence property of geodesic rays. If the fundamental group is Gromov hyperbolic and residually finite we prove, under appropriate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Gerhard Knieper

We consider an invariant gradient flow for the invariant length functional for co-compact curves in inversive geometry, and prove that solutions exist for all time and converge to loxodromic curves, provided the initial curve is admissible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Ben Andrews , Glen Wheeler

In this paper, we prove a `cut-by-curves criterion' for an overconvergent isocrystal on a smooth variety over a field of characteristic $p>0$ to extend logarithmically to its smooth compactification whose complement is a strict normal…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-25 Atsushi Shiho