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This paper studies a specific metric on plane curves that has the property of being isometric to classical manifold (sphere, complex projective, Stiefel, Grassmann) modulo change of parametrization, each of these classical manifolds being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford , Jayant Shah , Laurent Younes

We consider homogeneous spaces of Lie groups with compact stabilizer subgroups of two types: those with integrable invariant distributions and those with geodesic orbit invariant Riemannian metrics. The latter means that for an arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

In this work, we study the geodesics of the space of certain geometrically and physically motivated subspaces of the space of immersed curves endowed with a first order Sobolev metric. This includes elastic curves and also an extension of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

We solve explicitly the geodesic equation for a wide class of (pseudo)-Riemannian homogeneous manifolds (G/H,m), including those with G compact, as well as non-compact semisimple Lie groups, under a simple algebraic condition for the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

We consider spaces of smooth immersed plane curves (modulo translations and/or rotations), equipped with reparameterization invariant weak Riemannian metrics involving second derivatives. This includes the full $H^2$-metric without zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Peter W. Michor

In this paper, we study homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous Finsler spaces. We first give a simple criterion that characterizes geodesic vectors. We show that the geodesics on a Lie group, relative to a bi-invariant Finsler metric, are the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Dariush Latifi

A curve is rectifying if it lies on a moving hyperplane orthogonal to its curvature vector. In this work, we extend the main result of [Chen 2017, Tamkang J. Math. 48, 209] to any space dimension: we prove that rectifying curves are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Luiz C. B. da Silva , Gilson S. Ferreira

We give an overview of progress on homogeneous Einstein metrics on large classes of homogeneous manifolds, such as generalized flag manifolds and Stiefel manifolds. The main difference between these two classes of homogeneous spaces is that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos

Motivated by Felix Klein's notion that geometry is governed by its group of symmetry transformations, Charles Ehresmann initiated the study of geometric structures on topological spaces locally modeled on a homogeneous space of a Lie group.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-12 William M. Goldman

The current paper is devoted to the study of integral curves of constant type in parabolic homogeneous spaces. We construct a canonical moving frame bundle for such curves and give the criterium when it turns out to be a Cartan connection.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Boris Doubrov , Igor Zelenko

We discuss some geometric aspects of PSL(2,C), SL(2,C), and the space G of the geodesics of H^3 equipped with some suitable structures of Riemannian holomorphic manifolds of constant sectional curvature. We also observe that G is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Christian El Emam

In many singular metric spaces, the regularity of a shortest-length curve is unknown. Algebraic varieties, or more generally sets defined by finitely many polynomial or real analytic equalities or inequalities, all locally partition into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Chengcheng Yang

In this paper, we establish a sufficient condition for a geodesic in a Riemannian manifold to be homogeneous, i.e. an orbit of an $1$-parameter isometry group. As an application of this result, we provide a new proof of the fact that every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-22 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Given compact Lie groups H\subset G, we study the space of G-invariant metrics on G/H with nonnegative sectional curvature. For an intermediate subgroup K between H and G, we derive conditions under which enlarging the Lie algebra of K…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-24 Lorenz Schwachhofer , Kristopher Tapp

We develop an elementary method to compute spaces of equivariant maps from a homogeneous space $G/H$ of a Lie group $G$ to a module of this group. The Lie group is not required to be compact. More generally, we study spaces of invariant…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Vincent Knibbeler

Geodesic orbit spaces are those Riemannian homogeneous spaces (G/H,g) whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter subgroups of G. We classify the simply connected geodesic orbit spaces where G is a compact Lie group of rank two. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

We study equivariant embeddings with small boundary of a given homogeneous space $G/H$, where $G$ is a connected, linear algebraic group with trivial Picard group and only trivial characters, and $H \subset G$ is an extension of a connected…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan V. Arzhantsev , Juergen Hausen

In this article we classify totally geodesic submanifolds of homogeneous nearly K\"ahler 6-manifolds, and of the G2-cones over these 6-manifolds. To this end, we develop new techniques for the study of totally geodesic submanifolds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Juan Manuel Lorenzo-Naveiro , Alberto Rodríguez-Vázquez

Spinorial methods have proven to be a powerful tool to study geometric properties of spin manifolds. Our aim is to continue the spinorial study of manifolds that are not necessarily spin. We introduce and study the notion of $G$-invariance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Diego Artacho , Marie-Amélie Lawn

We study cohomogeneity one Riemannian manifolds and we establish some simple criterium to test when a singular orbit is totally geodesic. As an application, we classify compact, positively curved Riemannian manifolds which are acted on…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabio Podesta , Luigi Verdiani