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Magnitude is a real-valued invariant of metric spaces which, in the finite setting, can be understood as recording the 'effective number of points' in a space as the scale of the metric varies. Motivated by applications in topological data…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Hirokazu Katsumasa , Emily Roff , Masahiko Yoshinaga

We introduce a proximal subdifferential and develop a calculus for nonsmooth functions defined on any Riemannian manifold $M$. We give several applications of this theory, concerning: 1) differentiability and geometrical properties of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera

In this paper, we consider the essential spectrum of submanifolds in Euclidean spaces under various geometric hypotheses. Our results involve extrinsic conditions such as finite total mean curvature, the convergence of the gradient of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Yuxin Dong , Hezi Lin , Wei Zhang

We provide a sharp monotonicity theorem about the distribution of subharmonic functions on manifolds, which can be regarded as a new, measure theoretic form of the uncertainty principle. As an illustration of the scope of this result, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Aleksei Kulikov , Fabio Nicola , Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà , Paolo Tilli

For an $n\times n$ positive definite symmetric matrix $Z$ with $Z_{ii} = 1$ for all $i$, we show that there exists a set of vectors $V_Z\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ such that the radius $R$ of the circumsphere of $V_Z$ satisfies ${\rm Mag}\ Z =…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yasuhiko Asao , Kiyonori Gomi

We study a new bi-Lipschitz invariant \lambda(M) of a metric space M; its finiteness means that Lipschitz functions on an arbitrary subset of M can be linearly extended to functions on M whose Lipschitz constants are enlarged by a factor…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Brudnyi , Yu. Brudnyi

We consider a Laplace eigenfunction $\varphi_\lambda$ on a smooth closed Riemannian manifold, that is, satisfying $-\Delta \varphi_\lambda = \lambda \varphi_\lambda$. We introduce several observations about the geometry of its vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of compact metric spaces, originally inspired by category theory and now known to be related to myriad other geometric quantities. Generalizing earlier results in $\ell_1^n$ and Euclidean space, we prove…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Mark W. Meckes

A mathematical smooth function means that the function has continuous derivatives to a certain degree C(k). We call it a k-smooth function or a smooth function if k can grow infinitively. Based on quantum physics, there is no such smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-21 Li Chen

For any closed smooth Riemannian manifold H. Weyl has defined a sequence of numbers called today intrinsic volumes. They include volume, Euler characteristic, and integral of the scalar curvature. We conjecture that absolute values of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Semyon Alesker

This paper studies the magnitude homology of graphs focusing mainly on the relationship between its diagonality and the girth. Magnitude and magnitude homology are formulations of the Euler characteristic and the corresponding homology,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Yasuhiko Asao , Yasuaki Hiraoka , Shu Kanazawa

There is a general notion of the magnitude of an enriched category, defined subject to hypotheses. In topological and geometric contexts, magnitude is already known to be closely related to classical invariants such as Euler characteristic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Joseph Chuang , Alastair King , Tom Leinster

We prove a laplacian comparison theorem in the barrier sense for the function distance to the boundary of Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, area and mean curvature of the boundary bounded above. As an application we get…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Raquel Perales

In this paper, we derive a new form of maximum principle for smooth functions on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $M$ for which there exists a bounded vector field $X$ such that $\langle\nabla f,X\rangle\geq 0$ on $M$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Luis J. Alias , Antonio Caminha , F. Yure do Nascimento

We study Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with mean-convex boundary whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative in a spectral sense. Our first main result is a sharp spectral extension of a rigidity theorem by Kasue: we prove that under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gioacchino Antonelli , Yangyang Li , Paul Sweeney

The purpose of this article is to produce effective versions of some rigidity results in algebra and geometry. On the geometric side, we focus on the spectrum of primitive geodesic lengths (resp., complex lengths) for arithmetic hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Benjamin Linowitz , D. B. McReynolds , Paul Pollack , Lola Thompson

Magnitude homology is a bigraded homology theory for finite graphs defined by Hepworth and Willerton, categorifying the power series invariant known as magnitude which was introduced by Leinster. We analyze the structure and implications of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Radmila Sazdanovic , Victor Summers

The problem of estimating, from a random sample of points, the dimension of a compact subset $S$ of the Euclidean space is considered. The emphasis is put on consistency results in the statistical sense. That is, statements of convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Antonio Cuevas , Beatriz Pateiro-López

Quantifying the distance between datasets is a fundamental question in mathematics and machine learning. We propose \textit{magnitude distance}, a novel distance metric defined on finite datasets using the notion of the \emph{magnitude} of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sahel Torkamani , Henry Gouk , Rik Sarkar

The concepts of spread and spread dimension of a metric space were introduced by Willerton in the context of quantifying biodiversity of ecosystems. This paper develops practical applications of spread dimension in the context of machine…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Kevin Dunne