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We show that the appropriate notion of magnetic field on three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifolds is given by a closed Rumin differential two-form. We introduce horizontal magnetic flows starting from magnetic potential one-forms,…

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It is shown that C-flows in Riemannian three-dimensional compact manifold can be naturally considered as generalized dynamo Arnold's metric in compact manifolds, the so-called cat map dynamo. The generalized solution of self-induction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-06 L Garcia de Andrade

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez

We study the extrinsic geometry of isometric immersions into Riemannian manifolds of co-dimension one via a fourth-order geometric evolution of the shape operator. Motivated by bi-harmonic map theory and generalized Chen's conjecture, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Mohammad Javad Habibi Vosta Kolaei

Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

In this paper, for a given compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric and a symmetric tensor, we establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for extension of cross curvature flow. We give an example of this flow on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Shahroud Azami

Using the convex functions in Grassmannian manifolds we can carry out interior estimates for mean curvature flow of higher codimension. In this way some of the results of Ecker-Huisken can be generalized to higher codimension

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-10 Y. L. Xin , Ling Yang

We present a new curvature condition which is preserved by the Ricci flow in higher dimensions. For initial metrics satisfying this condition, we establish a higher dimensional version of Hamilton's neck-like curvature pinching estimate.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 S. Brendle

A flow of electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a steady magnetic field has a tendency to become quasi two-dimensional, i.e. uniform in the direction of the magnetic field, except in thin so-called Hartmann boundary layers. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Thierry Alboussiere

We develop a geometric flow framework to investigate two classical shape functionals: the torsional rigidity and the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian. First, by constructing novel deformation paths governed by height-stretching…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yong Huang , Qinfeng Li , Shuangquan Xie , Hang Yang

Recently Tang and Boozer [{\textbf{Phys. Plasmas (2000)}}], have investigated the anisotropies in magnetic field dynamo evolution, from local Lyapunov exponents, giving rise to a metric tensor, in the Alfven twist in magnetic flux tubes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-24 Garcia de Andrade

Magnetic induction in magnetohydrodynamic fluids at magnetic Reynolds number (Rm) less than~1 has long been known to cause magnetic drag. Here, we show that when $\mathrm{Rm} \gg 1$ and the fluid is in a hydrodynamic-dominated regime in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeffrey B. Parker , Navid C. Constantinou

We explore the intimate connection between spacetime geometry and electrodynamics. This link is already implicit in the constitutive relations between the field strengths and excitations, which are an essential part of the axiomatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Francisco Cabral , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this paper, we propose a generalization of the Riemann curvature tensor on manifolds (of dimension two or higher) endowed with a Regge metric. Specifically, while all components of the metric tensor are assumed to be smooth within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Michael Neunteufel , Joachim Schöberl , Max Wardetzky

Extrinsic Geometric Flow (EGF) for a codimension-one foliation has been recently introduced by authors as deformations of Riemannian metrics subject to quantities expressed in terms of its second fundamental form. In the paper we introduce…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-21 Vladimir Rovenski , Pawel Walczak

This article provides an attempt to extend concepts from the theory of Riemannian manifolds to piecewise linear spaces. In particular we propose an analogue of the Ricci tensor, which we give the name of an Einstein vector field. On a given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Robert Schrader

Gauss integral theorems for electric and magnetic fields, Faradays law of electromagnetic induction, magnetic field circulation theorem, theorems on the flux and circulation of vector potential, which are valid in curved spacetime, are…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Sergey G. Fedosin

A magnetic field is defined by the property that its divergence is zero in a three dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold. Each magnetic field generates a magnetic flow whose trajectories are curves called as magnetic curves. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Zehra Bozkurt , Ismail Gök , Yusuf Yaylı , Faik Nejat Ekmekci

We re-examine the nature of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor of mean field electrodynamics and show that an inconsistency arises if it is calculated via consideration of time-independent magnetic fields. Specifically, the predicted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 David W. Hughes , Michael R. E. Proctor