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The curvature exponent $N_{\mathrm{curv}}$ of a metric measure space is the smallest number $N$ for which the measure contraction property $\mathsf{MCP}(0,N)$ holds. In this paper, we study the curvature exponent of sub-Finsler Heisenberg…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Samuël Borza , Mattia Magnabosco , Tommaso Rossi , Kenshiro Tashiro

Utilizing the framework of quaternionic contact geometry, we define a sequence of Riemannian metrics $\{g_L\}$ on the quaternionic Heisenberg group $\mathfrak{H}_{\mathbb{H}}$ by rescaling the vertical directions. By analyzing the limit of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Joonhyung Kim , Ioannis D. Platis , Li-Jie Sun

Given an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$ with torsion subgroup $G = E(\mathbb{Q})_{\rm tors}$ we study what groups (up to isomorphism) can occur as the torsion subgroup of $E$ base-extended to $K$, a degree 6 extension of $\mathbb{Q}$. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Harris B. Daniels , Enrique González-Jiménez

In the present paper we study the rigidity of 2-step Carnot groups, or equivalently, of graded 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras. We prove the alternative that depending on bi-dimensions of the algebra, the Lie algebra structure makes it either…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Boris Kruglikov , Irina Markina , Alexander Vasil'ev

We prove that for every polynomial ODE there exists a Carnot group where the trajectories of the ODE lift to abnormal curves. The proof defines an explicit construction to determine a covector for the resulting abnormal curves. Using this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Eero Hakavuori

We construct explicit examples of geodesics in the mapping class group and show that the shadow of a geodesic in mapping class group to the curve graph does not have to be a quasi-geodesic. We also show that the quasi-axis of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Kasra Rafi , Yvon Verberne

In Carnot-Caratheodory or sub-Riemannian geometry, one of the major open problems is whether the conclusions of Sard's theorem holds for the endpoint map, a canonical map from an infinite-dimensional path space to the underlying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Enrico Le Donne , Richard Montgomery , Alessandro Ottazzi , Pierre Pansu , Davide Vittone

As a continuation of \cite{NSY:local}, we mainly discuss the global structure of two-dimensional locally compact geodesically complete metric spaces with curvature bounded above. We first obtain the result on the Lipschitz homotopy…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Koichi Nagano , Takashi Shioya , Takao Yamaguchi

Rank-one symmetric spaces carry a solvable group model which have a generalization to a larger class of Lie groups that are one-dimensional extensions of nilpotent groups. By examining some metric properties of these symmetric spaces, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Brendan Burns Healy

We prove that a compact stratied space satises the Riemannian curvature-dimension condition RCD(K, N) if and only if its Ricci tensor is bounded below by K $\in$ R on the regular set, the cone angle along the stratum of codimension two is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-11 J. Bertrand , C Ketterer , Ilaria Mondello , T. Richard

This book explores geometries defined by left-invariant distance functions on Lie groups, with a particular focus on nilpotent groups and Carnot groups equipped with geodesic distances. Geodesic left-invariant metrics are either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Enrico Le Donne

We employ the Cartan-Karlhede algorithm in order to completely characterize the class of G\"odel-like spacetimes for three-dimensional gravity. By examining the permitted Segre types (or P-types) for the Ricci tensor we present the results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-06 D. Brooks , D. D. McNutt , J. P. Simard , N. Musoke

In this paper we study the generalized mean curvature flow of sets in the sub-Riemannian geometry of Carnot groups. We extend to our context the level sets method and the weak (viscosity) solutions introduced in the Euclidean setting by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-27 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti

In Carnot groups of step 2 we consider sets having maximal or minimal possible homogeneous Hausdorff dimension compared to their Euclidean one: in the first case we prove that they must be in a sense vertical, that is a large part of these…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Laura Venieri

We show scalar-mean curvature rigidity of warped products of round spheres of dimension at least 2 over compact intervals equipped with strictly log-concave warping functions. This generalizes earlier results of Cecchini-Zeidler to all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Christian Baer , Simon Brendle , Bernhard Hanke , Yipeng Wang

We find an upper bound for the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic metric space with a set of geodesics satisfying a certain boundedness condition studied by Bowditch. The primary example is a collection of tight geodesics on the curve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gregory Bell , Koji Fujiwara

In this paper we study the main geometric properties of the Carnot-Carath\'eodory (abbreviated CC) distance $\dc$ in the setting of $k$-step sub-Riemannian Carnot groups from many different points of view. An extensive study of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-30 N. Arcozzi , F. Ferrari , F. Montefalcone

We prove that a proper geodesic metric space has non-positive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov if and only if it satisfies the Euclidean isoperimetric inequality for curves. Our result extends to non-geodesic spaces and non-zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Alexander Lytchak , Stefan Wenger

We use a Riemannnian approximation scheme to define a notion of $\textit{sub-Riemannian Gaussian curvature}$ for a Euclidean $C^{2}$-smooth surface in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}$ away from characteristic points, and a notion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Zoltán Balogh , Jeremy T. Tyson , Eugenio Vecchi

We introduce a notion of geodesic curvature $k_{\zeta}$ for a smooth horizontal curve $\zeta$ in a three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifold, measuring how much a horizontal curve is far from being a geodesic. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Davide Barilari , Mathieu Kohli