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We introduce a novel formulation for the evolution of parametric curves by anisotropic curve shortening flow in ${\mathbb R}^d$, $d\geq2$. The reformulation hinges on a suitable manipulation of the parameterization's tangential velocity,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

We show that under Space Curve Shortening flow any closed immersed curve in $\mathbb R^n$ whose projection onto $\mathbb{R}^2\times\{\vec{0}\}$ is convex remains smooth until it shrinks to a point. Throughout its evolution, the projection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Qi Sun

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

We give a combinatorial proof, using the hyperbolicity of the curve graphs, of the bounded geodesic image theorem of Masur and Minsky. Recently it has been shown that curve graphs are uniformly hyperbolic, thus a universal bound can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Richard C. H. Webb

We construct entire curves in projective spaces that exhibit frequent hypercyclicity under translations along countably many prescribed directions while maintaining optimal slow growth rates. Furthermore, we establish a fundamental…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Zhangchi Chen , Bin Guo , Song-Yan Xie

Starting with a pseudo-Anosov flow $\varphi$ on a closed hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ and an embedded surface $S \subset M$ that is (almost) transverse to $\varphi$, we relate the hyperbolic geometry of $M$ (e.g. volume, circumference, short…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Junzhi Huang , Samuel J. Taylor

We collect and present in a unified way several results in recent years about the elastic flow of curves and networks, trying to draw the state of the art of the subject. In particular, we give a complete proof of global existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Carlo Mantegazza , Alessandra Pluda , Marco Pozzetta

In this paper, we study flows of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space, and apply them to prove geometric inequalities. In the first part of the paper, we consider volume preserving flows by a family of curvature functions including positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Ben Andrews , Xuzhong Chen , Yong Wei

We prove that any mapping torus of a pseudo-Anosov mapping class with bounded normalized Weil-Petersson translation length contains a finite set of transverse and level closed curves, and drilling out this set of curves results in one of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Christopher J. Leininger , Yair N. Minsky , Juan Souto , Samuel J. Taylor

We describe, in an intrinsic way and using the global chart provided by Ito's parallel transport, a generalisation of the notion of geodesic (as critical path of an energy functional) to diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds. These…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Ana Bela Cruzeiro , Jean-Claude Zambrini

Given a closed Riemannian manifold, we prove the C0-general density theorem for continuous geodesic flows. More precisely, that there exists a residual (in the C0-sense) subset of the continuous geodesic flows such that, in that residual…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mario Bessa , Maria Joana Torres

We prove the upper semicontinuity of the measure theoretic entropy for the geodesic flow on complete Riemannian manifolds without focal points and bounded sectional curvature. We then study the relationship between the escape of mass…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Anibal Velozo

We show that there exists a suitable neighborhood of a constant curvature hyperbolic metric such that, for all initial data in this neighborhood, the corresponding solution to a normalized cross curvature flow exists for all time and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Dan Knopf , Andrea Young

We prove that curve shortening flow on the round sphere displays sharp chord-arc improvement, precisely as in the planar setting (Andrews and Bryan, Comm. Anal. Geom., 2011). As in the planar case, the sharp estimate implies control on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Paul Bryan , Mat Langford , Jonathan J. Zhu

The consideration of the so-called rotation minimizing frames allows for a simple and elegant characterization of plane and spherical curves in Euclidean space via a linear equation relating the coefficients that dictate the frame motion.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Luiz C. B. da Silva , José Deibsom da Silva

We prove that smooth reparametrizations of the geodesic flow on a manifold of constant negative curvature are contact Anosov flows. In particular we give a new class of exponentially mixing Anosov flows. Moreover, this introduces the notion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Cheikh Khoule , Matheus Manso , Ameth Ndiaye , Khadim War

We develop a method to calculate the persistent currents and their spatial distribution (and transport properties) on graphs made of quasi-1D diffusive wires. They are directly related to the field derivatives of the determinant of a matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Pascaud , G. Montambaux

This report is the foreword of a series dedicated to stochastic deformations of curves. Problems are set in terms of exclusion processes, the ultimate goal being to derive hydrodynamic limits for these systems after proper scalings. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

We study distance functions from geodesics to points on Riemannian surfaces with H\"older continuous Gauss curvature, and prove a finiteness principle in the spirit of Whitney extension theory for such functions. Our result can be viewed as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Rotem Assouline

We show that for every simple closed curve \alpha, the extremal length and the hyperbolic length of \alpha are quasi-convex functions along any Teichmuller geodesic. As a corollary, we conclude that, in Teichmuller space equipped with the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-23 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi