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In this paper we introduce the notion of the center of distances of a metric space, which is required for a generalization of the theorem by J. von Neumann about permutations of two sequences with the same set of cluster points in a compact…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Wojciech Bielas , Szymon Plewik , Marta Walczyńska

Metrics in Grassmannians, or distances between subspaces of same dimension, have many uses, and extending them to the Total Grassmannian of subspaces of different dimensions is an important problem, as usual extensions lack good properties…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 André L. G. Mandolesi

Starting from a suggestion of Einstein on the construction of the concept of space, we elaborate an intrinsic method to obtain space and time transformations between two inertial spaces of reference, mathematically modeled as affine…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nilo C. Bobillo-Ares , Carlos Dehesa-Martinez

On any proper convex domain in real projective space there exists a natural Riemannian metric, the Blaschke metric. On the other hand, distances between points can be measured in the Hilbert metric. Using techniques of optimal control, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Roland Hildebrand

I present an analysis of the physical assumptions needed to obtain the metric structure of space-time. For this purpose I combine the axiomatic approach pioneered by Robb with ideas drawn from works on Weyl's "Raumproblem". The concept of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-29 Jochen Rau

The method of maximum entropy is used to model curved physical space in terms of points defined with a finite resolution. Such a blurred space is automatically endowed with a metric given by information geometry. The corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-24 Ariel Caticha

In this paper we make some observations concerning m-metric spaces and point out some discrepancies in the proofs found in the literature. To remedy this, we propose a new topological construction and prove that it is in fact a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Samer Assaf

We define a general notion of a smooth invariant (central) ergodic measure on the space of paths of an $N$-graded graph (Bratteli diagram). It is based on the notion of standardness of the tail filtration in the space of paths, and the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Anatoly Vershik

In this note, the idea of finite dimensional $L^p$ spaces is transferred to Lorentzian length spaces to provide an example that is locally nowhere Minkowskian. Looking at the sectional curvature bounds of this example leads to the more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Jona Röhrig

We prove that every complete metric space with property (Z) is a length space. These answers questions posed by Garc\'{i}a-Lirola, Proch\'{a}zka and Rueda Zoca, and by Becerra Guerrero, L\'{o}pez-P\'{e}rez and Rueda Zoca, related to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Antonio Avilés , Gonzalo Martínez-Cervantes

We give a metric characterization of the scalar curvature of a smooth Riemannian manifold, analyzing the maximal distance between $(n+1)$ points in infinitesimally small neighborhoods of a point. Since this characterization is purely in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Giona Veronelli

It is commonly known that in Riemannian and sub-Riemannian Geometry, the metric tensor on a manifold defines a distance function. In Lorentzian Geometry, instead of a distance function it provides causal relations and the Lorentzian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-07 Irina Markina , Stephan Wojtowytsch

A distance function on the set of physical equivalence classes of Yang-Mills configurations considered by Feynman and by Atiyah, Hitchin and Singer is studied for both the $2+1$ and $3+1$-dimensional Hamiltonians. This set equipped with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Peter Orland

In the moduli space of polynomials of degree 3 with marked critical points c_1 and c_2, let C_{1,n} be the locus of maps for which c_1 has period n and let C_{2,m} be the locus of maps for which c_2 has period m. A consequence of Thurston's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Joseph H. Silverman

We describe the geometry of geodesics on a Lorentz ellipsoid: give explicit formulas for the first integrals (pseudo-confocal coordinates), curvature, geodesically equivalent Riemannian metric, the invariant area-forms on the time- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Genin , B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

Coarse geometry studies metric spaces on the large scale. The recently introduced notion of coarse entropy is a tool to study dynamics from the coarse point of view. We prove that all isometries of a given metric space have the same coarse…

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We establish sharp lower and upper bounds for the number of integral points near dilations of a space curve with nowhere vanishing torsion.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-19 Jing-Jing Huang

The proper Euclidean geometry is considered to be metric space and described in terms of only metric and finite metric subspaces (sigma-immanent description). Constructing the geometry, one does not use topology and topological properties.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Motivated by the quest for an analogue of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance in noncommutative geometry which is well-behaved with respect to C*-algebraic structures, we propose a complete metric on the class of Leibniz quantum compact metric…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Frederic Latremoliere

By using invariant theory we show that a (higher-dimensional) Lorentzian metric that is not characterised by its invariants must be of aligned type II; i.e., there exists a frame such that all the curvature tensors are simultaneously of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sigbjorn Hervik