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Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Alexandru Chirvasitu

This paper investigates the failure of certain metric measure spaces to be infinitesimally Hilbertian or quasi-Riemannian manifolds, by constructing examples arising from a manifold $M$ endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$ that is possibly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Vanessa Ryborz

All Lorentzian spacetimes with vanishing invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives are determined. A subclass of the Kundt spacetimes results and we display the corresponding metrics in local coordinates.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Pravda , A. Pravdova , A. Coley , R. Milson

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther

A long-standing conjecture in non-K\"ahler geometry states that if the Chern (or Levi-Civita) holomorphic sectional curvature of a compact Hermitian manifold is a constant $c$, then the metric must be K\"ahler when $c\neq 0$ and must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yulu Li , Fangyang Zheng

It is well known that the curvature tensor of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold can be decomposed with respect to the pseudo-orthogonal group into the sum of the Weyl conformal curvature tensor, the traceless part of the Ricci tensor and of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Anton S. Galaev

We investigate the geodesic orbit property of pseudo-Riemannian nilmanifolds, specifically those known in the literature as pseudo $H$-type Lie groups -- i.e., 2-step nilpotent Lie groups of Heisenberg type equipped with a left invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Kenro Furutani , Irina Markina , Yurii Nikonorov

This work presents an explicit description of the Fisher-Rao Riemannian metric on the Hilbert manifold of equivalent centered Gaussian measures on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. We show that the corresponding quantities from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Minh Ha Quang

For a finitely generated group $G$, we introduce an asymmetric pseudometric on projectivized deformation spaces of $G$-trees, using stretching factors of $G$-equivariant Lipschitz maps, that generalizes the Lipschitz metric on Outer space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Sebastian Meinert

We show that in any infinitesimally Hilbertian $CD^*(K,N)$-space at almost every point there exists a Euclidean weak tangent, i.e. there exists a sequence of dilations of the space that converges to a Euclidean space in the pointed measured…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Nicola Gigli , Andrea Mondino , Tapio Rajala

We introduce an asymmetric distance function, which we call the `left Hausdorff distance function', on the space of geodesic laminations on a closed hyperbolic surface of genus at least 2. This distance is an asymmetric version of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

In this paper, we study homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous Finsler spaces. We first give a simple criterion that characterizes geodesic vectors. We show that the geodesics on a Lie group, relative to a bi-invariant Finsler metric, are the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Dariush Latifi

The aim of this paper is the study of the geodesic distance in operator groups with several Riemannian metrics. More precisely we study the geodesic distance in self-adjoint operator groups with the left invariant Riemannian metric induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Manuel López Galván

Given a continuous viscosity solution of a Dirichlet-type Hamilton-Jacobi equation, we show that the distance function to the conjugate locus which is associated to this problem is locally semiconcave on its domain. It allows us to provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-23 Marco Castelpietra , Ludovic Rifford

Given a finite dimensional manifold $N$, the group $\operatorname{Diff}_{\mathcal S}(N)$ of diffeomorphism of $N$ which fall suitably rapidly to the identity, acts on the manifold $B(M,N)$ of submanifolds on $N$ of diffeomorphism type $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Mario Micheli , Peter W. Michor , David Mumford

Let G be any reductive p-adic group. We discuss several conjectures, some of them new, that involve the representation theory and the geometry of G. At the heart of these conjectures are statements about the geometric structure of Bernstein…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Anne-Marie Aubert , Paul Baum , Roger Plymen , Maarten Solleveld

Motivated by the use of degenerate Jacobi metrics for the study of brake orbits and homoclinics, we develop a Morse theory for geodesics in conformal metrics having conformal factors vanishing on a regular hypersurface of a Riemannian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-20 R. Giambò , F. Giannoni , P. Piccione

Given a complex structure $J$ on a real (finite or infinite dimensional) Hilbert space $H$, we study the geometry of the Lagrangian Grassmannian $\Lambda(H)$ of $H$, i.e. the set of closed linear subspaces $L\subset H$ such that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Esteban Andruchow , Gabriel Larotonda

In this paper we classify all simply connected five dimensional nilpotent Lie groups which admit $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics of Berwald and Douglas type defined by a left invariant Riemannian metric and a left invariant vector field. During…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Masoumeh Hosseini , Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam

In this paper we provide a way of taking $L^p$, $p > \frac{m}{2}$ bounds on a $m-$ dimensional Riemannian metric and transforming that into H\"{o}lder bounds for the corresponding distance function. One can think of this new estimate as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Brian Allen