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Minimal surfaces and Einstein manifolds are among the most natural structures in differential geometry. Whilst minimal surfaces are well understood, Einstein manifolds remain far less so. This exposition synthesises together a set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Mia Beard

It is shown that any smooth closed orientable manifold of dimension $2k + 1$, $k \geq 2$, admits a smooth polynomially convex embedding into $\mathbb C^{3k}$. This improves by $1$ the previously known lower bound of $3k+1$ on the possible…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Purvi Gupta , Rasul Shafikov

In the era of foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs), Euclidean space has been the de facto geometric setting for machine learning architectures. However, recent literature has demonstrated that this choice comes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Neil He , Jiahong Liu , Buze Zhang , Ngoc Bui , Ali Maatouk , Menglin Yang , Irwin King , Melanie Weber , Rex Ying

Manifold learning offers nonlinear dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional datasets. In this paper, we bring geometry processing to bear on manifold learning by introducing a new approach based on metric connection for generating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Max Budninskiy , Glorian Yin , Leman Feng , Yiying Tong , Mathieu Desbrun

A comprehensive approach to Sobolev-type embeddings, involving arbitrary rearrangement- invariant norms on the entire Euclidean space R^n, is offered. In particular, the optimal target space in any such embedding is exhibited. Crucial in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Angela Alberico , Andrea Cianchi , Lubos Pick , Lenka Slavikova

Let M be a closed hyperbolic three manifold. We construct closed surfaces which map by immersions into M so that for each one the corresponding mapping on the universal covering spaces is an embedding, or, in other words, the corresponding…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jeremy Kahn , Vladimir Markovic

Warped embeddings from a lower dimensional Einstein manifold into a higher dimensional one are analyzed. Explicit solutions for the embedding metrics are obtained for all cases of codimension 1 embeddings and some of the codimension n>1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Huan-Xiong Yang , Liu Zhao

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

We describe the first-order variations of the angles of Euclidean, spherical or hyperbolic polygons under infinitesimal deformations such that the lengths of the edges do not change. Using this description, we introduce a vector-valued…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-24 Jean-Marc Schlenker

We investigate a class of semi-Riemannian manifolds characterized by smooth metric signature changes with a transverse radical. This class includes spacetimes relevant to cosmological models such as the Hartle-Hawking "no boundary"…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 N. E. Rieger

Many Euclidean Einstein manifolds possess continuous symmetry groups of at least one parameter and we consider here a classification scheme of $d$ dimensional compact manifolds based on the existence of such a one parameter group in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marika Taylor-Robinson

The recently proposed gravitational entropy generalize the usual black hole entropy to Euclidean solutions without U(1) symmetry in the framework of Einstein gravity. The entropy of such smooth configuration is given by the area of minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-07 Bin Chen , Jia-ju Zhang

In this paper we study critial isometric and minimal isometric embeddings of classes of Riemannian metrics which we call {\it quasi-$k$-curved metrics}. Quasi-$k$-curved metrics generalize the metrics of space forms. We construct explicit…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Thomas Ivey , J. M. Landsberg

Hyperbolic space is a natural setting for mining and visualizing data with hierarchical structure. In order to compute a hyperbolic embedding from comparison or similarity information, one has to solve a hyperbolic distance geometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Puoya Tabaghi , Ivan Dokmanić

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric measure spaces. A random geometric graph is generated by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points independently with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

On the space of isometric embeddings $f_g$ of metrics $g$ on a manifold $M^n$ into the standard $(\mb{S}^{\tn=\tn(n)},\tg)$, we consider the total exterior scalar curvature $\Theta_{f_g}(M)$, and squared $L^2$ norm of the mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Santiago R. Simanca

The formalism to determine (conformal) isometries of a given curved superspace was elaborated almost two decades ago in the context of the old minimal formulation for N=1 supergravity in four dimensions (4D). This formalism is universal,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergei M. Kuzenko

We classify all smooth flat Riemannian metrics on the two-dimensional plane. In the complete case, it is well-known that these metrics are isometric to the Euclidean metric. In the incomplete case, there is an abundance of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Vincent E. Coll, , Lee B. Whitt

Manifold learning techniques for nonlinear dimension reduction assume that high-dimensional feature vectors lie on a low-dimensional manifold, then attempt to exploit manifold structure to obtain useful low-dimensional Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 Michael W. Trosset , Gokcen Buyukbas

The unification of general relativity with quantum theory will also require a coming together of the two quite different mathematical languages of general relativity and quantum theory, i.e., of differential geometry and functional analysis…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Mikhail Panine , Achim Kempf