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We obtain sharp estimates for heat kernels and Green's functions on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with Euclidean volume growth and nonnegative Ricci curvature. We will then apply these estimates to obtain sharp Moser-Trudinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Luigi Fontana , Carlo Morpurgo , Liuyu Qin

Some parts of stochastic analysis on curved spaces are revisted. A concise proof of the quasi-invariance of the Wiener measure on the path spaces over a Riemannian manifold is presented. The shifts are allowed to be in the Cameron-Martin…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Adnan Aboulalaa

Covariance matrices have proven highly effective across many scientific fields. Since these matrices lie within the Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) manifold - a Riemannian space with intrinsic non-Euclidean geometry, the primary challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Wang , Shaocheng Jin , Ziheng Chen , Xiaoqing Luo , Xiao-Jun Wu

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

We establish mean curvature estimate for immersed hypersurface with nonnegative extrinsic scalar curvature in Riemannian manifold $(N^{n+1}, \bar g)$ through regularity study of a degenerate fully nonlinear curvature equation in general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Pengfei Guan , Siyuan Lu

The space of Gaussian measures on a Euclidean space is geodesically convex in the $L^2$-Wasserstein space. This space is a finite dimensional manifold since Gaussian measures are parameterized by means and covariance matrices. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Asuka Takatsu

Two sharp comparison results are derived for three-dimensional complete noncompact manifolds with scalar curvature bounded from below. The first one concerns the Green's function. When the scalar curvature is nonnegative, it states that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

Learning with symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices has many applications in machine learning. Consequently, understanding the Riemannian geometry of SPD matrices has attracted much attention lately. A particular Riemannian geometry of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Junbin Gao

A new non-perturbative approach to quantum theory in curved spacetime and to quantum gravity, based on a generalisation of the Wigner equation, is proposed. Our definition for a Wigner equation differs from what have otherwise been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Antonsen

We present an extended version of Riemannian geometry suitable for the description of current formulations of double field theory (DFT). This framework is based on graded manifolds and it yields extended notions of symmetries, dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-03 Andreas Deser , Christian Saemann

We give asymptotically tight estimates of tangent space variation on Riemannian submanifolds of Euclidean space with respect to the local feature size of the submanifolds. We show that the result follows directly from structural properties…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Ramsay Dyer , Arijit Ghosh

The variable change w=exp(u) is applied to establish novel integral representations of the incomplete gamma-function, hypergeometric F-function,confluent hypergeometric /Phi-function and beta-function, and to analyze these functionsas as…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Sergey K. Sekatskii

The gradient flow is the evolution of fields and physical quantities along a dimensionful parameter~$t$, the flow time. We give a simple argument that relates this gradient flow and the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-09 Hiroki Makino , Okuto Morikawa , Hiroshi Suzuki

In this study, we investigate the role of the non-linear memory effect in gravitational wave (GW) parameter estimation, particularly we explore its capability to break the degeneracy between luminosity distance and inclination angle in…

In this paper DeWitt's formalism for field theories is presented; it provides a framework in which the quantization of fields possessing infinite dimensional invariance groups may be carried out in a manifestly covariant (non-Hamiltonian)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Roberto Niardi

In this manuscript, we study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem on complete Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below, to find the unknowns $\lambda$ and $u$, such that $$ Qu + \lambda f(u) = 0 $$ where $\lambda$ is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Bin Shen , Yuhan Zhu

A consistent approach to the description of integral coordinate invariant functionals of the metric on manifolds ${\cal M}_{\alpha}$ with conical defects (or singularities) of the topology $C_{\alpha}\times\Sigma$ is developed. According to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 D. V. Fursaev , S. N. Solodukhin

We show that the natural "convolution" on the space of smooth, even, translation-invariant convex valuations on a euclidean space $V$, obtained by intertwining the product and the duality transform of S. Alesker, may be expressed in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-27 Andreas Bernig , Joseph H. G. Fu

Classical W-symmetry is globally parametrized by the Grassmannian Manifold which is associated with the non-relativistic fermions. We give the bosonization rule which defines the natural higher coordinates system to describe the W-geometry.…

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