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An isometric embedding of a graph into a metric space is an embedding of the vertices such that the smallest number of edges connecting any two vertices equals to the distance in the metric space between the images. In this paper, we study…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Shiquan Ren

We show that certain right-invariant metrics endow the infinite-dimensional Lie group of all smooth orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle with a Riemannian structure. The study of the Riemannian exponential map allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Adrian Constantin , Boris Kolev

A connected graph is called \emph{geodetic} if there is a unique geodesic between each pair of vertices. In this paper we prove that if a finitely generated group admits a Cayley graph which is geodetic, then the group must be virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Murray Elder , Giles Gardam , Adam Piggott , Davide Spriano , Kane Townsend

We prove that on closed Riemannian manifolds with infinite abelian, but not cyclic, fundamental group, any isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. We conjecture that the result remains true…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Marco Mazzucchelli

Suppose that there exists a discrete subset $X$ of a complete, connected, $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ such that the Riemannian distances between points of $X$ correspond to the Euclidean distances of a net in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Matan Eilat

We study the existence of closed geodesics on compact Riemannian orbifolds, and on noncompact Riemannian manifolds in the presence of a cocompact, isometric group action. We show that every noncontractible Riemannian manifold which admits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Christian Lange , Christoph Zwickler

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in itself, and it plays a key role in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Zhiqi Chen , Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

In this paper we obtain an existence theorem for normal geodesics joining two given submanifolds in a globally hyperbolic stationary spacetime. The proof is based on both variational and geometric arguments involving the causal structure of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-12 Rossella Bartolo , Anna Maria Candela , Erasmo Caponio

We propose a new strong Riemannian metric on the manifold of (parametrized) embedded curves of regularity $H^s$, $s\in(3/2,2)$. We highlight its close relationship to the (generalized) tangent-point energies and employ it to show that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Elias Döhrer , Philipp Reiter , Henrik Schumacher

The space of graphs is often characterised by a non-trivial geometry, which complicates learning and inference in practical applications. A common approach is to use embedding techniques to represent graphs as points in a conventional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-26 Daniele Grattarola , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi , Lorenzo Livi

We explore a definition of uniformity on noncompact manifolds that does not require a Riemannian metric, but is equivalent to bounded gemetry. These are unfinished research notes (and will likely never be published), but since they were…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Jaap Eldering

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between commutative and non-commutative integrability of Hamiltonian systems and to construct new examples of integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

We study the asymptotic properties of geodesically convex $M$-estimation on non-linear spaces. Namely, we prove that under very minimal assumptions besides geodesic convexity of the cost function, one can obtain consistency and asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

For almost all Riemannian metrics (in the $C^\infty$ Baire sense) on a closed manifold $M^{n+1}$, $3\leq (n+1)\leq 7$, we prove that the union of all closed, smooth, embedded minimal hypersurfaces is dense. This implies there are infinitely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Kei Irie , Fernando C. Marques , André Neves

Given a smooth free action of a compact connected Lie group $G$ on a smooth compact manifold $M$, we show that the space of $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics on $M$ whose automorphism group is precisely $G$ is open dense in the space of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Alexandru Chirvasitu

A unit vector field on a Riemannian manifold $M$ is called geodesic if all of its integral curves are geodesics. We show, in the case of $M$ being a flat 3-manifold not equal to $\mathbb{E}^3$, that every such vector field is tangent to a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tilman Becker

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

Let $Q$ be a closed manifold admitting a locally-free action of a compact Lie group $G$. In this paper we study the properties of geodesic flows on $Q$ given by Riemannian metrics which are invariant by such an action. In particular, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Luca Asselle , Felix Schmäschke

Thin growing tissues (such as plant leaves) can be modelled by a bounded domain $S\subset R^2$ endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$, which models the internal strains caused by the differential growth of the tissue. The elastic energy is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-05 Peter Hornung

On a compact manifold with boundary, the map consisting of the scalar curvature in the interior and the mean curvature on the boundary is a local surjection at generic metrics. Moreover, this result may be localized to compact subdomains in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Hongyi Sheng