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Sectional curvature bounds are of central importance in the study of Riemannian manifolds, both in smooth differential geometry and in the generalized synthetic setting of Alexandrov spaces. Riemannian metrics along with metric spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Darius Erös , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

We analyze the inverse problem, originally formulated by Dix in geophysics, of reconstructing the wave speed inside a domain from boundary measurements associated with the single scattering of seismic waves. We consider a domain $\tilde M$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Maarten V. de Hoop , Sean F. Holman , Einar Iversen , Matti Lassas , Bjørn Ursin

The second fundamental form of Riemannian geometry is generalised to the case of a manifold with a linear connection and an integrable distribution. This bilinear form is generally not symmetric and its skew part is the torsion. The form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-20 G. E. Prince

We give a new self-contained proof of Poincar\'e's Polyhedron Theorem on presentations of discontinuous groups of isometries of a Riemann manifold of constant curvature. The proof is not based on the theory of covering spaces, but only…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Eric Jespers , Ann Kiefer , Ángel del Río

The subject of this PhD thesis is noncommutative geometry - more specifically spectral triples - and how it can be generalized to semi-Riemannian manifolds generally, and Lorentzian manifolds in particular. The first half of this thesis…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Nadir Bizi

We prove that the L^2 Riemannian metric on the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed closed, finite-dimensional manifold induces a metric space structure. As the L^2 metric is a weak Riemannian metric, this fact does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Brian Clarke

This work proposes a geometric insight into equivariant message passing on Riemannian manifolds. As previously proposed, numerical features on Riemannian manifolds are represented as coordinate-independent feature fields on the manifold. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Ilyes Batatia

Each sub-Riemannian geometry with bracket generating distribution enjoys a background structure determined by the distribution itself. At the same time, those geometries with constant sub-Riemannian symbols determine a unique Cartan…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-05 D. Alekseevsky , A. Medvedev , J. Slovak

In Riemannian geometry the prescribed Ricci curvature problem is as follows: given a smooth manifold $M$ and a symmetric 2-tensor $r$, construct a metric on $M$ whose Ricci tensor equals $r$. In particular, DeTurck and Koiso proved the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Sergey Stepanov

We address the problem of integrability of the sub-Riemannian mean curvature of an embedded hypersurface around isolated characteristic points. The main contribution of this note is the introduction of a concept of mildly degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Tommaso Rossi

Practical diffusion sampling is a numerical approximation problem: under a fixed inference budget, one must simulate a reverse-time ODE or SDE using only a limited number of denoising steps, so discretization error is often the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel Hurault , Thomas Moreau , Gabriel Peyré

In this paper, I shall demonstrate that sufficiently high-dimensional closed positively-curved Riemannian manifolds are either diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, or isometric to a locally compact rank one symmetric space. This…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Yashar Memarian

Data-driven Riemannian geometry has emerged as a powerful tool for interpretable representation learning, offering improved efficiency in downstream tasks. Moving forward, it is crucial to balance cheap manifold mappings with efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Willem Diepeveen , Georgios Batzolis , Zakhar Shumaylov , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We use tools from $n$-dimensional Brownian motion in conjunction with the Feynman-Kac formulation of heat diffusion to study nodal geometry on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$. On one hand we extend a theorem of Lieb and prove that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

In this paper, we study the geometric nonlinearity properties, such as curvature and torsion, in a dual coordinate system of the Riemannian manifold defined by the Gaussian distribution. We also give the Amari formulas explicitly in this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Prosper Rosaire Mama Assandje , Dongho Joseph , Thomas Bouetou Bouetou

We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dimensional (2D) cuts of the three-dimensional flow fields,…

We introduce an invariant of Riemannian geometry which measures the relative position of two von Neumann algebras in Hilbert space, and which, when combined with the spectrum of the Dirac operator, gives a complete invariant of Riemannian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Alain Connes

In this paper we consider a representative a priori unstable Hamiltonian system with 2+1/2 degrees of freedom, to which we apply the geometric mechanism for diffusion introduced in the paper Delshams et al., Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 2006, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Amadeu Delshams , Gemma Huguet

For a subRiemannian manifold and a given Riemannian extension of the metric, we define a canonical global connection. This connection coincides with both the Levi-Civita connection on Riemannian manifolds and the Tanaka-Webster connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Robert K. Hladky

For analytic negatively curved Riemannian manifold with analytic strictly convex boundary, we show that the scattering map for the geodesic flow determines the manifold up to isometry. In particular one recovers both the topology and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yannick Guedes Bonthonneau , Colin Guillarmou , Malo Jézéquel