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In a family of compact, canonically polarized, complex manifolds the first variation of the lengths of closed geodesics is computed. As an application, we show the coincidence of the Fenchel-Nielsen and Weil-Petersson symplectic forms on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Reynir Axelsson , Georg Schumacher

We consider a class of nonsmooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold, in which the objective function is weakly convex in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems are ubiquitous in engineering applications but still largely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Xiao Li , Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man Cho So

We show that a compact Riemannian manifold with weakly 1/4-pinched sectional curvatures is either locally symmetric or diffeomorphic to a space form.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-18 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

The geodesic orbit property has been studied intensively for Riemannian manifolds. Geodesic orbit spaces are homogeneous and allow simplifications of many structural questions using the Lie algebra of the isometry group. Weakly symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Zhiqi Chen , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

We introduce a framework for Riemannian diffeology. To this end, we use the tangent functor in the sense of Blohmann and one of the options of a metric on a diffeological space in the sense of Iglesias-Zemmour. As a consequence, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Katsuhiko Kuribayashi , Keiichi Sakai , Yusuke Shiobara

We give a new proof of the existence of nontrivial quasimeromorphic mappings on a smooth Riemannian manifold, using solely the intrinsic geometry of the manifold.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-05-12 Emil Saucan

We show that certain right-invariant metrics endow the infinite-dimensional Lie group of all smooth orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle with a Riemannian structure. The study of the Riemannian exponential map allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Adrian Constantin , Boris Kolev

Here shape space is either the manifold of simple closed smooth unparameterized curves in $\mathbb R^2$ or is the orbifold of immersions from $S^1$ to $\mathbb R^2$ modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of $S^1$. We investige several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-01 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford

We construct Riemannian manifolds with completely integrable geodesic flows, in particular various nonhomogeneous examples. The methods employed are a modification of Thimm's method, Riemannian submersions and connected sums.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Gabriel Paternain , Ralf J. Spatzier

This article provides an overview of various notions of shape spaces, including the space of parametrized and unparametrized curves, the space of immersions, the diffeomorphism group and the space of Riemannian metrics. We discuss the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Peter W. Michor

We introduce slant Riemannian maps from Riemannian manifolds to almost Hermitian manifolds as a generalization of slant immersions, invariant Riemannian maps and anti-invariant Riemannian maps. We give examples, obtain characterizations and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Bayram Sahin

Latent manifolds of autoencoders provide low-dimensional representations of data, which can be studied from a geometric perspective. We propose to describe these latent manifolds as implicit submanifolds of some ambient latent space. Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Juliane Braunsmann , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

In this paper we analyze the problem of the geodesic connectedness of subsets of Riemannian manifolds. By using variational methods, the geodesic connectedness of open domains (whose boundaries can be not differentiable and not convex) of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Rossella Bartolo , Anna Germinario , Miguel Sanchez

The space of all Riemannian metrics on a smooth second countable finite dimensional manifold is itself a smooth manifold modeled on the space of symmetric (0,2)-tensor fields with compact support. It carries a canonical Riemannian metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor

We investigate the geometric and topological structure of equidistant decompositions of Riemannian manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Vitali Kapovitch , Alexander Lytchak

One field of fluid dynamics concerns the search for variational principles. So far, the Hamiltonian view and Riemannian geometry has been applied to find geodesics for hydrodynamic systems. Compared to Riemannian geometry sub-Riemannian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Annette Müller , Peter Névir

This is a short presentation of some classical results on finite dimensional complex Lie algebras (classification of nilpotent Lie algebras, deformations and perturbations, contractions and rigidity). We present some applications to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Michel Goze

A Riemannian metric on a manifold M induces a family of Riemannian metrics on the loop space LM depending on a Sobolev space parameter s. We compute the connection forms of these metrics and the higher symbols of their curvature forms,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Yoshiaki Maeda , Steven Rosenberg , Fabián Torres-Ardila

Given a positive integer $p$, we consider $W^{1,p}$-maps from a Euclidean domain of dimension $p+1$ into a closed Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{N}$. The target manifold is required to satisfy suitable topological conditions; in particular,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Giacomo Canevari , Giandomenico Orlandi

We study the existence of closed geodesics on compact Riemannian orbifolds, and on noncompact Riemannian manifolds in the presence of a cocompact, isometric group action. We show that every noncontractible Riemannian manifold which admits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Christian Lange , Christoph Zwickler