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In this thesis, I investigate how to construct a self-consistent model of deformed general relativity using canonical methods and metric variables. The specific deformation of general covariance is predicted by some studies into loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-07 Rhiannon Cuttell

We study parallel surfaces and dual surfaces of cuspidal edges. We give concrete forms of principal curvature and principal direction for cuspidal edges. Moreover, we define ridge points for cuspidal edges by using those. We clarify…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Keisuke Teramoto

Both a general and a diagonal u-invariant for forms of higher degree are defined, generalizing the u-invariant of quadratic forms. Both old and new results on these invariants are collected.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pumpluen

We study covariant differential calculus on the quantum spheres S_q^2N-1. Two classification results for covariant first order differential calculi are proved. As an important step towards a description of the noncommutative geometry of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin Welk

In this paper, we consider the indefinite scalar curvature problem on $R^n$. We propose new conditions on the prescribing scalar curvature function such that the scalar curvature problem on $R^n$ (similarly, on $S^n$) has at least one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-24 Li Ma , Yihong Du

In this paper, we report a "new" continuity path which links the constant scalar curvature equation to a second order elliptic equation. This is largely an expository article where we describes various aspects of geometry and analysis…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Xiuxiong Chen

This is the lecture 2 of a mini-course of 4 lectures. Our purpose of this mini-curse is to explain some ideas of E. Cartan and S. Lie when we study differential geometry, particularly we will to explain the Cartan reduction method. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 J. R. Arteaga , M. Malakhaltsev

These notes contain a survey of some aspects of the theory of graded differential algebras and of noncommutative differential calculi as well as of some applications connected with physics. They also give a description of several new…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michel Dubois-Violette

We show relation between sign of Gaussian curvature of cuspidal edge and geometric invariants through types of singularities of Gauss map. Moreover, we define and characterize positivity/negativity of cusps of Gauss maps by geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Keisuke Teramoto

A simple theory of the covariant derivatives, deformed derivatives and relative covariant derivatives of extensor fields is present using algebraic and analytical tools developed in previous papers. Several important formulas are derived.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Fernandez , A. M. Moya , E. Notte-Cuello , W. A. Rodrigues

Comparison of $1$-dimensional distance functions is a basic tool in Alexandrov geometry and it is used to characterize spaces with curvature bounded above or below. For the zero curvature bound there is a differential inequality which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Murat Limoncu , Şahin Koçak

In this text we outline the major techniques, concepts and results in mean curvature flow with a focus on higher codimension. In addition we include a few novel results and some material that cannot be found elsewhere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Knut Smoczyk

This essay, an excerpt of the author's Ph.D. in Philosophy of mathematics (2012) thought of as being a companion to recent discoveries of new explicit Cartan geometry curvatures, analyzes how Gauss, after having devised the isometrically…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Joel Merker

These lectures give an introduction to the methods of conformal field theory as applied to deriving certain results in two-dimensional critical percolation: namely the probability that there exists at least one cluster connecting two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Cardy

We study a class of complex polynomial equations on a finite graph with a view to understanding how holistic phenomena emerge from combinatorial structure. Particular solutions arise from orthogonal projections of regular polytopes,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Paul Baird

In this review we present some of the fundamental mathematical structures which permit to define noncommutative gauge field theories. In particular, we emphasize the theory of noncommutative connections, with the notions of curvatures and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Thierry Masson

This is the third in a series of papers on the geometry and analysis of singular area minimizing hypersurfaces. We show how to derive obstruction and structure theories for scalar curvature constraints without imposing dimensional or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Joachim Lohkamp

This is the first part of the lecture notes that grew out of the special course given during the 2021-2022 academic year. In these lecture notes we present an approach to the fundamental structures of differential geometry that uses the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Dmitrii Pedchenko

We provide an elementary proof of a lemma that plays an important role in the classification of parallel mean curvature surfaces in two-dimensional complex space forms.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Katsuei Kenmotsu

The starting assumptions to study the convergence and complexity of gradient-type methods may be the smoothness (also called Lipschitz continuity of gradient) and the strong convexity. In this note, we revisit these two basic properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Lu Zhang , Jiani Wang , Hui Zhang