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We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo

We prove that if a geodesic flow on a closed orientable $C^\infty$ surface is transitive and has positive topological entropy, then it has a unique measure of maximal entropy. This covers all previous results of the literature on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yuri Lima , Davi Obata , Mauricio Poletti

We show that on any translation surface, if a regular point is contained in a simple closed geodesic, then it is contained in infinitely many simple closed geodesics, whose directions are dense in the unit circle. Moreover, the set of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Duc-Manh Nguyen , Huiping Pan , Weixu Su

It is known that the so-called rotation minimizing (RM) frames allow for a simple and elegant characterization of geodesic spherical curves in Euclidean, hyperbolic, and spherical spaces through a certain linear equation involving the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Luiz C. B. da Silva , José D. da Silva

In this paper we study the behavior of geodesics on cones over arbitrary $C^3$-smooth closed Riemannian manifolds. We show that the geodesic flow on such cones admits first integrals whose values uniquely determine almost all geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Andrey E. Mironov , Siyao Yin

We prove that the geodesic flow on a locally CAT(-1) metric space which is compact, or more generally convex cocompact with non-elementary fundamental group, can be coded by a suspension flow over an irreducible shift of finite type with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-02 David Constantine , Jean-François Lafont , Daniel J. Thompson

We study the Hermitian curvature flow of locally homogeneous non-K\"ahler metrics on compact complex surfaces. In particular, we characterize the long-time behavior of the solutions to the flow. We also provide the first example of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Francesco Pediconi , Mattia Pujia

We show that the Goldman flows preserve the holomorphic structure on the moduli space of homomorphisms of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface into U(1), in other words the Jacobian.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lisa C. Jeffrey , David B. Klein

Structurally stable (rough) flows on surfaces have only finitely many singularities and finitely many closed orbits, all of which are hyperbolic, and they have no trajectories joining saddle points. The violation of the last property leads…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Vladislav Kruglov , Dmitry Malyshev , Olga Pochinka

We consider the problem of when a closed orientable hyperbolic surface admits a totally geodesic embedding into a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold; given a finite isometric group action on the surface, we consider in particular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Bruno P. Zimmermann

We show that certain right-invariant metrics endow the infinite-dimensional Lie group of all smooth orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle with a Riemannian structure. The study of the Riemannian exponential map allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Adrian Constantin , Boris Kolev

We uncover some connections between the topology of a complete Riemannian surface M and the minimum number of vertices, i.e., critical points of geodesic curvature, of closed curves in M. In particular we show that the space forms with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-23 Mohammad Ghomi

We show that homogeneous Einstein metrics on Euclidean spaces are Einstein solvmanifolds, using that they admit periodic, integrally minimal foliations by homogeneous hypersurfaces. For the geometric flow induced by the orbit-Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro A. Lafuente

The geometry of closed surfaces equipped with a Euclidean metric with finitely many conical points of arbitrary angle is studied. The main result is that the image of a non-closed geodesic has 0 distance from the set of conical points.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

We characterize geodesic flows, admitting two commuting quadratic integrals with common principal directions, in terms of the geodesic 4-webs such that the tangents to the web leaves are common zero directions of the integrals. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Sergey I. Agafonov

We study Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces with integrable geodesic flows such that an additional first integral is high-degree polynomial in momenta. This problem reduces to searching for solutions to certain quasi-linear systems of PDEs…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Sergei Agapov

Motivated by Luo's combinatorial Yamabe flow on closed surfaces \cite{L1} and Guo's combinatorial Yamabe flow on surfaces with boundary \cite{Guo}, we introduce combinatorial Calabi flow on ideally triangulated surfaces with boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Yanwen Luo , Xu Xu

This article is a first step towards the understanding of the dynamics of the horocycle flow on foliated manifolds by hyperbolic surfaces. This is motivated by a question formulated by M. Martinez and A. Verjovsky on the minimality of this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Fernando Alcalde Cuesta , Françoise Dal'Bo

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru

Motivated by a paper of Bolsinov and Taimanov DG/9911193 we consider non-holonomic situation and exhibit examples of sub-Riemannian metrics with integrable geodesic flows and positive topological entropy. Moreover the Riemannian examples…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Kruglikov