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The topological (resp. geodesic) complexity of a topological (resp. metric) space is roughly the smallest number of continuous rules required to choose paths (resp. shortest paths) between any points of the space. We prove that the geodesic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Donald M. Davis

The geodesic complexity of a Riemannian manifold is a numerical isometry invariant that is determined by the structure of its cut loci. In this article we study decompositions of cut loci over whose components the tangent cut loci fiber in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

We study the geodesic complexity of the ordered and unordered configuration spaces of graphs in both the $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ metrics. We determine the geodesic complexity of the ordered two-point $\varepsilon$-configuration space of any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Donald M. Davis , Michael Harrison , David Recio-Mitter

We introduce the geodesic complexity of a metric space, inspired by the topological complexity of a topological space. Both of them are numerical invariants, but, while the TC only depends on the homotopy type, the GC is an invariant under…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-14 David Recio-Mitter

We introduce a new complexity measure of a path of (problems, solutions) pairs in terms of the length of the path in the condition metric which we define in the article. The measure gives an upper bound for the number of Newton steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Shub

We study the geodesic motion planning problem for complete Riemannian manifolds and investigate their geodesic complexity, an integer-valued isometry invariant introduced by D. Recio-Mitter. Using methods from Riemannian geometry, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

In this paper we investigate possible extensions of the idea of geodesic completeness in complex manifolds, following two directions: metrics are somewhere allowed not to be of maximum rank, or to have 'poles' somewhere else. Geodesics are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Meneghini

We find an upper bound for geodesic distances associated to monotone Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices and density matrices.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Anna Jencova

We introduce a new definition of nonpositive curvature in metric spaces and study its relationship to the existing notions of nonpositive curvature in comparison geometry. The main feature of our definition is that it applies to all metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Miroslav Bačák , Bobo Hua , Jürgen Jost , Martin Kell , Armin Schikorra

We prove that the geodesic complexity of a regular tetrahedron exceeds its topological complexity by 1 or 2. The proof involves a careful analysis of minimal geodesics on the tetrahedron.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Donald M. Davis

On a complete, connected, locally compact, non-compact geodesic space $(X,d)$, we assign each compact set a distance-like function. With the help of these functions, we obtain a pseudo-metric on the space of (non-empty) compact subsets of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaojun Cui , Liang Jin , Xifeng Su

Given strong local Dirichlet forms and $\mathbb{R}^N$-valued functions on a metrizable space, we introduce the concepts of geodesic distance and intrinsic distance on the basis of these objects. They are defined in a geometric and an…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Masanori Hino

This paper studies the magnitude homology groups of geodesic metric spaces. We start with a description of the second magnitude homology of a general metric space in terms of the zeroth homology groups of certain simplicial complexes. Then,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Kiyonori Gomi

In this paper a functional definition of geodesics is introduced which allows to generalize the notion of a geodesic from smooth to topological manifolds. It is shown that in the smooth case the new definition coincides with the classical…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Klapka

A natural metric on the space of all almost hermitian structures on a given manifold is investigated.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

This thesis is concerned with extending the idea of geodesic completeness from pseudo-Riemannian to complex geometry: we take, however a completely holomorphicpoint of view; that is to say, a 'metric' will be a (meromorphic) symmetric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Claudio Meneghini

This article concerns a class of metric spaces, which we call multigeodesic spaces, where between any two distinct points there exist multiple distinct minimising geodesics. We provide a simple characterisation of multigeodesic normed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Amlan Banaji

The aim of this paper is to extend the definition of geodesics to conical manifolds, defined as submanifolds of $\R^n$ with a finite number of singularities. We look for an approach suitable both for the local geodesic problem and for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Marco G. Ghimenti

The geodesic complexity of a length space $X$ quantifies the required number of case distinctions to continuously choose a shortest path connecting any given start and end point. We prove a local lower bound for the geodesic complexity of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Florian Frick , Pranav Rajbhandari
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