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In this paper, we investigate geometric conditions for isometric immersions with positive index of relative nullity to be cylinders. There is an abundance of noncylindrical $n$-dimensional minimal submanifolds with index of relative nullity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-30 A. E. Kanellopoulou , Th. Vlachos

In analogy with classical submanifold theory, we introduce morphisms of real metric calculi together with noncommutative embeddings. We show that basic concepts, such as the second fundamental form and the Weingarten map, translate into the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Joakim Arnlind , Axel Tiger Norkvist

It is hard to imagine curved spacetimes of General Relativity. A simple but powerful way how to achieve this is visualizing them via embedding diagrams of both ordinary geometry and optical reference geometry. They facilitate to gain an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Stanislav Hledik , Zdenek Stuchlik , Alois Cipko

We study the continuous motion of smooth isometric embeddings of a planar surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space, and two related discrete analogues of these embeddings, polygonal embeddings and flat foldings without interior…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-29 David Eppstein

We give a new proof for the local existence of a smooth isometric embedding of a smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonzero Riemannian curvature tensor into $6$-dimensional Euclidean space. Our proof avoids the sophisticated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jeanne Clelland , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang , Deane Yang

We show that compact Riemannian manifolds, regarded as metric spaces with their global geodesic distance, cannot contain a number of rigid structures such as (a) arbitrarily large regular simplices or (b) arbitrarily long sequences of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Alexandru Chirvasitu

In this work, we study various properties of embedded hypersurfaces in $1+1+2$ decomposed spacetimes with a preferred spatial direction, denoted $e^{\mu}$, which are orthogonal to the fluid flow velocity of the spacetime and admit a proper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Abbas M. Sherif , Peter K. S. Dunsby

We describe a construction of geometric U-folds compatible with a non-trivial extension of the global formulation of four-dimensional extended supergravity on a differentiable spin manifold. The topology of geometric U-folds depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-16 C. I. Lazaroiu , C. S. Shahbazi

The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds or surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. When the Gauss curvature is negative, the isometric immersion problem is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wentao Cao , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

Non-Euclidean method of the generalized geometry construction is considered. According to this approach any generalized geometry is obtained as a result of deformation of the proper Euclidean geometry. The method may be applied for…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

We prove a rigidity theorem that shows that, under many circumstances, quasi-isometric embeddings of equal rank, higher rank symmetric spaces are close to isometric embeddings. We also produce some surprising examples of quasi-isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 David Fisher , Kevin Whyte

We study the problem of isometrically embedding a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean three-space. It is shown that if Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two smooth curves tangent at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Tsung-Yin Lin

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

Consider the sum of the first $N$ eigenspaces for the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold. A basis for this space determines a map to Euclidean space and for $N$ sufficiently large the map is an embedding. In analogy with a fruitful idea of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Eric Potash

We study a perturbation theory for embedding gravity equations in a background for which corrections to the embedding function are linear with respect to corrections to the flat metric. The arbitrariness remaining after solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 S. S. Kuptsov , M. V. Ioffe , S. N. Manida , S. A. Paston

Graph embeddings deal with injective maps from a given simple, undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ into a metric space, such as $\mathbb{R}^n$ with the Euclidean metric. This concept is widely studied in computer science, see \cite{ge1}, but also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Dominic van der Zypen

We propose a global minimal embedding of the Schwarzschild theory in a five-dimensional flat space by using two surfaces. Covariant field equations are deduced for the gravitational forces.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Burghardt

Embedding diagrams prove to be quite useful when learning general relativity as they offer a way of visualizing spacetime curvature through warped two dimensional (2D) surfaces. In this manuscript we present a different 2D construct that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Chad A. Middleton

A key technique of machine learning and computer vision is to embed discrete weighted graphs into continuous spaces for further downstream processing. Embedding discrete hierarchical structures in hyperbolic geometry has proven very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Frank Nielsen , Ke Sun

In this article we extend several foundational results of the theory of complete minimal surfaces of finite index in the Euclidean space to minimal surfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds and, more generally, to marginally outer-trapped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Alessandro Carlotto