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In this paper we prove a general structure theorem for relatively hyperbolic groups (with arbitrary peripheral subgroups) acting naive convex co-compactly on properly convex domains in real projective space. We also establish a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Mitul Islam , Andrew Zimmer

Many high-dimensional optimisation problems exhibit rich geometric structures in their set of minimisers, often forming smooth manifolds due to over-parametrisation or symmetries. When this structure is known, at least locally, it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Evan Markou , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould

We prove the almost sure weak convergence of a stochastic proximal point method for minimizing a convex integral function in the general nonlinear context of complete geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature (so-called Hadamard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nicholas Pischke

This paper continues a geometric study of Harvey's Complex of Curves, whose ultimate goal is to apply the theory of hyperbolic spaces and groups to algorithmic questions for the Mapping Class Group and geometric properties of Kleinian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Howard A. Masur , Yair N. Minsky

We propose a new notion called \emph{infinity-harmonic maps}between Riemannain manifolds. These are natural generalizations of the well known notion of infinity harmonic functions and are also the limiting case of $p$% -harmonic maps as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Ye-Lin Ou , Tiffany Troutman , Frederick Wilhelm

Given a topological cell decomposition of a closed surface equipped with edge weights, we consider the Dirichlet energy of any geodesic realization of the 1-skeleton graph to a hyperbolic surface. By minimizing the energy over all possible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Wai Yeung Lam

We show that a noncompact manifold with bounded sectional curvature, whose ends are sufficiently Gromov-Hausdorff close to rays, has a finite dimensional space of square-integrable harmonic forms. In the special case of a finite-volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

Convex hulls are fundamental objects in computational geometry. In moderate dimensions or for large numbers of vertices, computing the convex hull can be impractical due to the computational complexity of convex hull algorithms. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Robert Graham , Adam M. Oberman

An almost contact metric structure is parametrized by a section of an associated homogeneous fibre bundle, and conditions for this to be a harmonic section, and a harmonic map, are studied. These involve the characteristic vector field, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Vergara-Diaz , C. M. Wood

Manifold fitting aims to reconstruct a low-dimensional manifold from high-dimensional data, whose framework is established by Fefferman et al. \cite{fefferman2020reconstruction,fefferman2021reconstruction}. This paper studies the recovery…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Ruowei Li , Zhigang Yao

We find algebraic parametrizations of extended solutions of harmonic maps of finite uniton number from a surface to the orthogonal group O(n) in terms of free holomorphic data which lead to formulae for all such harmonic maps. Our work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Maria João Ferreira , Bruno Ascenso Simões , John C. Wood

Given a closed hyperbolic surface $S$, let $\cQF$ denote the space of quasifuchsian hyperbolic metrics on $S\times\R$ and $\cGH_{-1}$ the space of maximal globally hyperbolic anti-de Sitter metrics on $S\times\R$. We describe natural maps…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Carlos Scarinci , Jean-Marc Schlenker

For a closed negatively monotone symplectic manifold, we construct quasi-isometric embeddings from the Euclidean spaces to its Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group, assuming it contains an incompressible heavy Lagrangian. We also show the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Yuhan Sun

Tukia and Vaisala showed that every quasi-conformal map of $\R^n$ extends to a quasi-conformal self-map of $\R^{n+1}$. The restriction of the extended map to the upper half-space $\R^n \times \R^+$ is, in fact, bi-Lipschitz with respect to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-23 Anton Lukyanenko

Let $M$ be a Hadamard manifold with curvature bounded above by a negative constant $-\alpha$, satisfying the "strict convexity condition", and assume that $M$ admits a "helicoidal" one-parameter subgroup $G$ of isometries of $M$. Then,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Jaime Ripoll

We initiate the study of the norm-squared of the momentum map as a rigorous tool in infinite dimensions. In particular, we calculate the Hessian at a critical point, show that it is positive semi-definite along the complexified orbit, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Tobias Diez , Tudor S. Ratiu

In this paper, two main results concerning uniformly continuous retractions are proved. First, an $\alpha$-H\"older retraction from any separable Banach space onto a compact convex subset whose closed linear span is the whole space is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Rubén Medina

We show how quantum many-body systems on hyperbolic lattices with nearest-neighbor hopping and local interactions can be mapped onto quantum field theories in continuous negatively curved space. The underlying lattices have recently been…

Negatively-curved, maximally symmetric hyperbolic spaces enjoy a number of remarkable properties that can be traced back to Riemannian geometry, group theory and algebraic geometry. In this note we recall some such properties and find $H_n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Domenico Orlando

In this paper, we develop a loop group description of harmonic maps $\mathcal{F}: M \rightarrow G/K$ ``of finite uniton type", from a Riemann surface $M$ into inner symmetric spaces of compact or non-compact type. This develops work of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Peng Wang