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Our main theorem identifies a class of totally geodesic subgraphs of the 1-skeleton of the pants complex, each isomorphic to the product of two Farey graphs. We deduce the existence of many convex planes in the 1-skeleton of the pants…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Javier Aramayona , Hugo Parlier , Kenneth J. Shackleton

In this work we reproduce the characterization of $\Gg^s$-sets from the euclidean setting [J. London Math. Soc. 49:267-280,1994] to more general metric spaces. These sets have Hausdorff dimension at least $s$ and are closed by countable…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Felipe Negreira , Emiliano Sequeira

In the present paper we characterize the surjective isometries of the space of compact, convex subsets of proper, geodesically complete CAT(0)-spaces in which geodesics do not split, endowed with the Hausdorff metric. Moreover, an analogue…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Foertsch

We investigate the geodesic motions of a massive particle and light ray in the hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis in the 5-dimensional hypercylindrical spacetime. The class of the solutions depends on one constant a which is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee

In this article, based on two case studies, we discuss the role of abnormal geodesics in planar Zermelo navigation problems. Such curves are limit curves of the accessibility set, in the domain where the current is strong. The problem is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Bernard Bonnard , Olivier Cots , Joseph Gergaud , Boris Wembe

We study the nonexpansivity of reflection mappings in geodesic spaces and apply our findings to the averaged alternating reflection algorithm employed in solving the convex feasibility problem for two sets in a nonlinear context. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-03 Aurora Fernandez-Leon , Adriana Nicolae

In this paper we study the convexity properties of geodesics and balls in Outer space equipped with the Lipschitz metric. We introduce a class of geodesics called balanced folding paths and show that, for every loop $\alpha$, the length of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Yulan Qing , Kasra Rafi

As a natural analog of Urysohn's inequality in Euclidean space, Gao, Hug, and Schneider showed in 2003 that in spherical or hyperbolic space, the total measure of totally geodesic hypersurfaces meeting a given convex body K is minimized…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov

New ray-optical elements allow generalized refraction of light rays, but geometry imposes limitations on possible mappings between the positions of an object and its geometric image. Here I study the case of an infinite, planar,…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-25 Johannes Courtial

The paper is a study of geodesic in two-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Firstly, the local properties of geodesics in a neighborhood of generic parabolic points are investigated. The equation of the geodesic flow has singularities at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Alexey Remizov

Let $X = G/\Gamma$, where $G$ is a Lie group and $\Gamma$ is a lattice in $G$, and let $U$ be a subset of $X$ whose complement is compact. We use the exponential mixing results for diagonalizable flows on $X$ to give upper estimates for the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Dmitry Kleinbock , Shahriar Mirzadeh

We consider geodesics for first passage percolation (FPP) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with iid passage times. As has been common in the literature, we assume that the FPP system satisfies certain basic properties conjectured to be true, and derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Kenneth S. Alexander

In this paper, we obtain the explicit limit value of the Teichm\"{u}ller distance between two Teichm\"{u}ller geodesic rays which are determined by Jenkins-Strebel differentials having a common end point on the augmented Teichm\"{u}ller…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Masanori Amano

For one parameter subgroup action on a finite volume homogeneous space, we consider the set of points admitting divergent on average trajectories. We show that the Hausdorff dimension of this set is strictly less than the manifold dimension…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Lifan Guan , Ronggang Shi

We will develop simple relations between the arc-lengths of a pair of geodesics that share common end-points. The two geodesics differ only by the requirement that one is constrained to lie in a subspace of the parent manifold. We will…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Leo Brewin

Geometric optics effectively describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves when the wavelength is much smaller than the characteristic length scale of the medium, making wave phenomena like diffraction negligible. As a result, light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno , Rama Vadapalli

In this paper we study 1/k-geodesics, those closed geodesics that minimize on any subinterval of length $l(\gamma)/k$. We employ energy methods to provide a relationship between the 1/k-geodesics and what we define as the balanced points of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Ian Adelstein

Our goal is to show, in two different contexts, that "random" surfaces have large pants decompositions. First we show that there are hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ for which any pants decomposition requires curves of total length at least…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-03 Larry Guth , Hugo Parlier , Robert Young

The aim of this note is to compare the averaged optimal coplanar transfer towards circular orbits when the costs are the transfer time transfer and the energy consumption. While the energy case leads to analyze a 2D Riemannian metric using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Bernard Bonnard , Helen Henninger , Jana Nemcova , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

Let X be an infinite Riemann surface with an upper-bounded geodesic pants decomposition. The vertices of the corresponding dual graph G are pairs of pants and edges are cuffs with conductances equal to their lengths. We prove that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Charles Bordenave , Xinlong Dong , Dragomir Šarić