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We study the geodesics on an invariant surface of a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. The main results are: the characterization of geodesic orbits; a Clairaut's relation and its geometric interpretation in some remarkable three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Stefano Montaldo , Irene I. Onnis

The $p$-widths of a closed Riemannian manifold are a nonlinear analogue of the spectrum of its Laplace--Beltrami operator, which corresponds to areas of a certain min-max sequence of possibly singular minimal submanifolds. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Otis Chodosh , Christos Mantoulidis

We give in this paper bounds for the Morse indices of a large class of simple geodesics on a surface with a generic metric. To our knowledge these bounds are the first that use only the generic hypothesis on the metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Nancy Hingston

We show that for a generic Riemannian or reversible Finsler metric on a compact differentiable manifold $M$ of dimension at least three all closed geodesics are simple and do not intersect each other. Using results by Contreras~\cite{C2010}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Hans-Bert Rademacher

In this paper we introduce a space with some additional topologies using filter bases and renew the definition of Riemann surfaces of algebraic functions. We then present a Galois correspondence between these Riemann surfaces and their deck…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Junyang Yu

We study global obstructions to the eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor on a Riemannian 3-manifold. As a topological obstruction, we first show that if the 3-manifold is closed, then certain choices of the eigenvalues are prohibited: in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Amir Babak Aazami , Charles M. Melby-Thompson

An ant-like observer confined to a two-dimensional surface traversed by stripes would wonder whether this striped landscape could be devised in such a way as to appear to be the same wherever they go. Differently stated, this is the problem…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-12 Andrea Pedrini , Epifanio G. Virga

A new metric on the open 2-dimensional unit disk is defined making it a geodesically complete metric space whose geodesic lines are precisely the Euclidean straight lines. Moreover, it is shown that the unit disk with this new metric is not…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

Murphy and the second author showed that a generic closed Riemannian manifold has no totally geodesic submanifolds, provided it is at least four dimensional. Lytchak and Petrunin established the same thing in dimension 3. For the higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Hasan M. El-Hasan , Frederick Wilhelm

In this note we give an alternative geometrical derivation of the results recently presented by Garcia-Godinez, Newman and Silva-Ortigoza in [1] on the class of all two-dimensional riemannian and lorentzian metrics from 2nd order ODEs which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Emanuel Gallo

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. Generically, there are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-23 Ugo Boscain , Grégoire Charlot , Roberta Ghezzi

We study distance functions from geodesics to points on Riemannian surfaces with H\"older continuous Gauss curvature, and prove a finiteness principle in the spirit of Whitney extension theory for such functions. Our result can be viewed as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Rotem Assouline

We show how inscription problems in the plane can be generalized to Riemannian surfaces of constant curvature. We then use ideas from symplectic and Riemannian geometry to prove these generalized versions for smooth Jordan curves in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Ali Naseri Sadr

This thesis is concerned with extending the idea of geodesic completeness from pseudo-Riemannian to complex geometry: we take, however a completely holomorphicpoint of view; that is to say, a 'metric' will be a (meromorphic) symmetric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Claudio Meneghini

A set of simple rules for constructing the maximal (e.g. analytic) extensions for any metric with a Killing field in an (effectively) two-dimensional spacetime is formulated. The application of these rules is extremely straightforward, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 T. Kloesch , T. Strobl

We study the mechanisms of the non properness of the action of the group of diffeomorphisms on the space of Lorentzian metrics of a compact manifold. In particular, we prove that nonproperness entails the presence of lightlike geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Mounoud

On a Poisson manifold endowed with a Riemannian metric we will construct a vector field that generalizes the double bracket vector field defined on semi-simple Lie algebras. On a regular symplectic leaf we will construct a generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Petre Birtea

We generalize double bracket vector fields, originally defined on semisimple Lie algebras, to Poisson manifolds equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric by utilizing a symmetric contravariant 2-tensor field. We extend the normal metric on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Petre Birtea , Zohreh Ravanpak , Cornelia Vizman

We apply Kr\"{o}necker's approximation theorem to measure (in a topological sense) a set of constants which turn a vector field into a non-globally hypoelliptic operator. We present situations in which this set is a discrete enumerable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Maria V. Bartmeyer , Paulo L. Dattori da Silva , Rafael B. Gonzalez

Within a framework of noncommutative geometry, we develop an analogue of (pseudo) Riemannian geometry on finite and discrete sets. On a finite set, there is a counterpart of the continuum metric tensor with a simple geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Dimakis , F. Muller-Hoissen