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We prove that the geodesic flow on closed surfaces displays a hyperbolic set if the shadowing property holds C2-robustly on the metric. Similar results are obtained when considering even feeble properties like the weak shadowing and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mario Bessa , Maria Joana Torres , Joao Lopes Dias

The geometric quantization of the geodesic flow on a compact Riemannian manifold via the BKS "dragging projection" yields the Laplacian plus a scalar curvature term. To avoid convergence issues, the standard construction involves somewhat…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-08 William D. Kirwin

In this paper, we investigate the ruled surfaces generated by a straight line according to rotation minimizing frame (RMF). Using this frame of a straight line, we obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions when the ruled surface is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Fatma Güler , Emin Kasap

In many physical situations involving diverse length scales, waves or rays representing them travel through media characterized by spatially smooth, random, modest refactive index variations. "Primary" diffraction (by individual…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Eric J Heller , Ragnar Fleischmann , Tobias Kramer

Geodesic currents on closed hyperbolic surfaces are measures on the unit tangent bundle invariant under geodesic flow and orientation reversal. Every geodesic current induces a dual function on curves via the geometric intersection pairing.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Dídac Martínez-Granado , Dylan P. Thurston

Starting from well-known absolute instruments for perfect imaging, we introduce a type of rotational-symmetrical compact closed manifolds, namely geodesic lenses. We demonstrate that light rays confined on geodesic lenses are closed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Lin Xu , Xiangyang Wang , Tomáš Tyc , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu , Huanyang Chen

An explicit form for the geodesic equations that would describe diffracted light rays is obtained and the Levi-Civita connection that enters into it is shown to be a sum of contributions from the metric of the ambient space, the index of…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-10 D. H. Delphenich

We show injectivity of the geodesic X-ray transform on piecewise constant functions when the transform is weighted by a continuous matrix weight. The manifold is assumed to be compact and nontrapping of any dimension, and in dimension three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Jesse Railo

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed total geodesic curvature problem for generalized circle packing metrics in hyperbolic background geometry on surfaces with infinite cellular decompositions. To address this problem, we introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Xinrong Zhao , Puchun Zhou

A novel deflection effect of an intense laser beam with spin angular momentum is revealed theoretically by an analytical modeling using radiation pressure and momentum balance of laser plasma interaction in the relativistic regime, as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Y. H. Tang , Z. Gong , J. Q. Yu , Y. R. Shou , X. Q. Yan

We study the statistics of free-surface turbulence at large Reynolds numbers produced by direct numerical simulations in a fluid layer at different thickness with fixed characteristic forcing scale. We observe the production of a transient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-12 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , M. E. Rosti

The geodesic deviation equation, describing the relative accelerations of nearby particles, and the Raychaudhury equation, giving the evolution of the kinematical quantities associated with deformations (expansion, shear and rotation) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-20 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this paper we study the local magnetic ray transform of symmetric tensor fields up to rank two on a Riemannian manifold of dimension $\geq 3$ with boundary. In particular, we consider the magnetic ray transform of the combinations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Hanming Zhou

The influence of the relativistic motion of the reference frame on the light reflection law is investigated. The method is based on applying the relativistic aberration affect for three light signals: incident, normal and reflected rays.…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 V. M. Red'kov , Bernhard Rothenstein , George J. Spix

The windowed ray transform is a natural generalization of the "Analytic-Signal Transform" which is developed to extend arbitrary functions from $\RR^n$ to $\CC^n$. We present several inversion formulas here.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Sunghwan Moon

In this article, the ray tracing method is studied beyond the classical geometrical theory. The trajectories are here regarded as geodesics in a Riemannian manifold, whose metric and topological properties are those induced by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano

Here we report the first evidence of the inverse energy cascade in a flow dominated by 3D motions. Experiments are performed in thick fluid layers where turbulence is driven electromagnetically. It is shown that if the free surface of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-26 D. Byrne , H. Xia , M. Shats

We describe the effects of geometric torsion on the coherent motion of electrons along a thin twisted quantum ring. The geometric torsion inherent in the quantum ring triggers a quantum phase shift in the electrons' eigenstates, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hisao Taira , Hiroyuki Shima

We study the structure of reverse shocks formed by the collision of supersonic, magnetised plasma flows driven by an inverse (or exploding) wire array with a planar conducting obstacle. We observe that the structure of these reverse shocks…

Conformal transformation optics provides a simple scheme for manipulating light rays with inhomogeneous isotropic dielectrics. However, there is usually discontinuity for refractive index profile at branch cuts of different virtual Riemann…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-08 Lin Xu , Tomáš Tyc , Huanyang Chen