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It is developed a Riemannian reformulation of classical statistical mechanics for systems in thermodynamic equilibrium, which arises as a natural extension of Ruppeiner geometry of thermodynamics. The present proposal leads to interpret…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 L Velazquez

A Finsler metric is geodesically reversible if geodesics remain geodesics after a change of orientation. Asymmetric norms on vector spaces and Funk metrics in the interior of convex bodies are examples of geodesically reversible metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva

For general metric theories of gravity, we compare the approach that describes-derives the field equations of gravity as a thermodynamic identity with the one which looks at them from entropy bounds. The comparison is made through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Alessandro Pesci

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 establish sharp upper and lower bounds of Gaussian type for the heat kernel in the metric measure space satisfying $\RCD(0,N)$ ( equivalently, $\RCD^\ast(0,N)$) condition with $N\in \mathbb{N}\setminus\{1\}$ and having maximum volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Huaiqian Li

Thurston introduced in his seminal work an asymmetric metric on Teichm\"uller space by the ratio of simple closed curve length. In this paper, we generalize the idea and define an asymmetric metric on the space of unit-area flat metrics…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jiajun Shi

A \emph{geodesic current} on a free group $F$ is an $F$-invariant measure on the set $\partial^2 F$ of pairs of distinct points of $\partial F$. The space of geodesic currents on $F$ is a natural companion of Culler-Vogtmann's Outer space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Ilya Kapovich , Tatiana Nagnibeda

We develop a geometric framework for irreversible transport phenomena in which macroscopic evolution equations arise from the combined structure of a thermodynamic state metric and an Onsager-based dissipation metric. The construction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sami Lakka

We study points of density 1/2 of sets of finite perimeter in infinite-dimensional Gaussian spaces and prove that, as in the finite-dimensional theory, the surface measure is concentrated on this class of points. Here density 1/2 is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-02 Luigi Ambrosio , Alessio Figalli

Utilizing the ADM equations, we derive a metric and reduced field equations describing a general, spherically symmetric perfect fluid. The metric describes both the interior perfect fluid region and exterior vacuum Schwarzschild spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Lasky , Anthony Lun

This paper extends some geometric properties of a one-parameter family of relative entropies. These arise as redundancies when cumulants of compressed lengths are considered instead of expected compressed lengths. These parametric relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Ashok Kumar M. , Rajesh Sundaresan

The space of full-ranked one-forms on a smooth, orientable, compact manifold (possibly with boundary) is metrically incomplete with respect to the induced geodesic distance of the generalized Ebin metric. We show a distance equality between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Nicola Cavallucci , Zhe Su

A self-map $T$ of a $\nu$-generalized metric space $(X,d\,)$ is said to be a Ciric-Matkowski contraction if $d(Tx,Ty)<d(x,y)$, for $x\neq y$, and, for every $\epsilon>0$, there is $\delta>0$ such that $d(x,y)<\delta+\epsilon$ implies…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Mortaza Abtahi

In this work a deep relation between topology and thermodynamical features of manifolds with boundaries is shown. The expression for the Euler characteristic, through the Gauss- Bonnet integral, and the one for the entropy of gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Stefano Liberati , Giuseppe Pollifrone

A classical question about a metric space is whether Borel measures on the space are determined by their values on balls. We show that for any given measure this property is stable under Gromov-Wasserstein convergence of metric measure…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Anne van Delft , Andrew J. Blumberg

Uniform bounds are developed for derivatives of solutions of the $2$-dimensional constant negative curvature equation and the Weil-Petersson metric for the Teichm\"{u}ller and moduli spaces. The dependence of the bounds on the geometry of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Scott A. Wolpert

We study the metric and topological properties of the space $\mathscr{D}(G)$ of left-invariant hyperbolic pseudometrics on the non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$ that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, up to rough similarity. This space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Eduardo Oregón-Reyes

In this paper we continue our study on the canonical metrics on the Teichm\"uller and the moduli space of Riemman surfaces. We first prove the equivalence of the Bergman metric and the Carath\'eodory metric to the K\"ahler-Einstein metric,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kefeng Liu , Xiaofeng Sun , Shing-Tung Yau

The known possibility to consider the (vacuum) Maxwell equations in a curved space-time as Maxwell equations in flat space-time(Mandel'stam L.I., Tamm I.E.) taken in an effective media the properties of which are determined by metrical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 V. M. Red'kov , N. G. Tokarevskaya , E. M. Bychkouskaya , George J. Spix

A tetrad-based procedure is presented for solving Einstein's field equations for spherically-symmetric systems; this approach was first discussed by Lasenby et al. in the language of geometric algebra. The method is used to derive metrics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Roshina Nandra , Anthony N. Lasenby , Michael P. Hobson