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As a means to better understanding manifolds with positive curvature, there has been much recent interest in the study of non-negatively curved manifolds which contain points at which all 2-planes have positive curvature. We show that there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Martin Kerin

To unify general relativity and quantum theory is hard in part because they are formulated in two very different mathematical languages, differential geometry and functional analysis. A natural candidate for bridging this language gap, at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-19 David Aasen , Tejal Bhamre , Achim Kempf

Manifolds admitting positive sectional curvature are conjectured to have rigid homotopical structure and, in particular, comparatively small Euler charateristics. In this article, we obtain upper bounds for the Euler characteristic of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Manuel Amann , Lee Kennard

This is a survey on cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature. We discuss the known examples of this type and their geometry and the functions that describe the metric. We also describe the classification of cohomogeneity one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-24 Wolfgang Ziller

We will consider a totally real Galois field $K$ of degree 4 as the linear coordinate space $\mathbb{Q}^4\subset\mathbb{R}^4$. An element $k\in K$ is called strictly positive, if all its conjugates are positive. The set of strictly positive…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Yury Kochetkov

Derived geometry can be defined as the universal way to adjoin finite homotopical limits to a given category of manifolds compatibly with products and glueing. The point of this paper is to show that a construction closely resembling…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Andrew W. Macpherson

We construct the differential geometry of smooth manifolds equipped with an algebraic curvature map acting as an area measure. Area metric geometry provides a spacetime structure suitable for the discussion of gauge theories and strings,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We introduce the notion of one-sided mapping cones of positive linear maps between matrix algebras. These are convex cones of maps that are invariant under compositions by completely positive maps from either the left or right side. The…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Mark Girard , Seung-Hyeok Kye , Erling Størmer

We aim at constructing a smooth basis for isogeometric function spaces on domains of reduced geometric regularity. In this context an isogeometric function is the composition of a piecewise rational function with the inverse of a piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Thomas Takacs

In this paper the authors seek to trace in an accessible fashion the rapid recent development of the theory of the matrix geometric mean in the cone of positive definite matrices up through the closely related operator geometric mean in the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Jimmie D. Lawson , Yongdo Lim

We examine implications of angles having their own dimension, in the same sense as do lengths, masses, {\it etc.} The conventional practice in scientific applications involving trigonometric or exponential functions of angles is to assume…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Peter J. Mohr , Eric Shirley , William D. Phillips , Michael Trott

We introduce the notion of positivity for a real basic $(1,1)$ class in basic Bott-Chern cohomology group on foliated manifolds, and study the relationship between this positivity and the negativity of transverse holomorphic sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Yashan Zhang , Tao Zheng

We study two closely related objects associated with plane domains bounded by rational algebraic arcs: canonical forms in the sense of positive geometry and normalized moment-generating functions, or Fantappie transforms. For polygons these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boris Shapiro

We develop a unified categorical framework for gauging both continuous and finite symmetries in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our construction applies to geometric categories i.e. categories internal to stacks. This generalizes the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Devon Stockall , Matthew Yu

We prove that the derived direct image of the constant sheaf with field coefficients under any proper map with smooth source contains a canonical summand. This summand, which we call the geometric extension, only depends on the generic…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Chris Hone , Geordie Williamson

We prove that the fixed point iteration of arbitrary positive concave mappings with nonempty fixed point set converges geometrically for any starting point. We also show that positivity is crucial for this result to hold, and the concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Tomasz Piotrowski , Renato L. G. Cavalcante

Compression of point clouds has so far been confined to coding the positions of a discrete set of points in space and the attributes of those discrete points. We introduce an alternative approach based on volumetric functions, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-02 Maja Krivokuća , Maxim Koroteev , Philip A. Chou

This paper investigates functions from $\mathbb{R}^d$ to $\mathbb{R} \cup \{\pm \infty\}$ that satisfy axioms of linearity wherever allowed by extended-value arithmetic. They have a nontrivial structure defined inductively on $d$, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Bo Waggoner

The classical perspective of a function is a construction which transforms a convex function into one that is jointly convex with respect to an auxiliary scaling variable. Motivated by applications in several areas of applied analysis, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Patrick L. Combettes , Francisco J. Silva

In some scientific fields, a scaling is able to modify the topology of an observed object. Our goal in the present work is to introduce a new formalism adapted to the mathematical representation of this kind of phenomenon. To this end, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Guy Wallet