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In this work we study the general system of geodesic equations for the case of a massive particle moving on an arbitrary curved manifold. The investigation is carried out from the symmetry perspective. By exploiting the parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

We introduce and study the barcode entropy for geodesic flows of closed Riemannian manifolds, which measures the exponential growth rate of the number of not-too-short bars in the Morse-theoretic barcode of the energy functional. We prove…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

A theory is offered for the ballistic 4-terminal Josephson junction. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic two-dimensional normal rectangular layer which is attached in each side to the bulk superconducting banks (terminals). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Malek Zareyan , A. N. Omelyanchouk

This paper continues a geometric study of Harvey's Complex of Curves, whose ultimate goal is to apply the theory of hyperbolic spaces and groups to algorithmic questions for the Mapping Class Group and geometric properties of Kleinian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Howard A. Masur , Yair N. Minsky

We use spherical coordinates to devise a new exact solution to the governing equations of geophysical fluid dynamics for an inviscid and incompressible fluid with a general density distribution and subjected to forcing terms. The latter are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-20 Calin Iulian Martin , Ronald Quirchmayr

We provide a new approach to studying the moduli space of curves via Morse theory and hyperbolic geometry, by introducing a family of Morse functions on the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ of stable curves of genus $g$ with $n$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Changjie Chen

In this paper we study the equilibrium measures of geodesic flows of closed manifolds without conjugate points which have a visibility universal covering. Specifically, the uniqueness problem for Bowen potentials which are constants on some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Edhin Mamani

The space of Hitchin representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface $S$ into $\text{SL}_n\mathbb{R}$ embeds naturally in the space of projective oriented geodesic currents on $S$. We find that currents in the boundary have…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Charles Reid

We give a new characterisation of the unparametrised geodesics, or distinguished curves, for affine, pseudo-Riemannian, conformal, and projective geometry. This is a type of moving incidence relation. The characterisation is used to provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 A. Rod Gover , Daniel Snell , Arman Taghavi-Chabert

Many classical objects on a surface S can be interpreted as cross-ratio functions on the circle at infinity of the universal covering. This includes closed curves considered up to homotopy, metrics of negative curvature considered up to…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Francis Bonahon , Dragomir Saric

We define the adelic hypergeometric function of special Gaussian type by means of a tower of hypergeometric curves. This function takes values in an adelic completed group ring and interpolates all the hypergeometric functions of the same…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Masanori Asakura , Noriyuki Otsubo

A hyperbolic algebraic curve is a bounded subset of an algebraic set. We study the function theory and functional analytic aspects of these sets. We show that their function theory can be described by finite codimensional subalgebras of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jim Agler , John E. McCarthy

In this paper, we study a family of curves on $S^2$ that defines a two-dimensional smooth projective plane. We use curve shortening flow to prove that any two-dimensional smooth projective plane can be smoothly deformed through a family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Yu-Wen Hsu

It is proved that a bijection between two compact hyperbolic surfaces with boundary is an isometry if it and its inverse map each geodesic onto some geodesic.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Wen Yang

Classical thermodynamics contains familiar geometric relations associated with cyclic processes, most notably the identification of mechanical work with the area enclosed by a trajectory in the $(P,V)$ plane. We show that the area laws for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Eric R. Bittner

We prove that smooth reparametrizations of the geodesic flow on a manifold of constant negative curvature are contact Anosov flows. In particular we give a new class of exponentially mixing Anosov flows. Moreover, this introduces the notion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Cheikh Khoule , Matheus Manso , Ameth Ndiaye , Khadim War

We present a neuro-mathematical model for geometrical optical illusions (GOIs), a class of illusory phenomena that consists in a mismatch of geometrical properties of the visual stimulus and its associated percept. They take place in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-20 Benedetta Franceschiello , Alexey Mashtakov , Giovanna Citti , Alessandro Sarti

We study the order of lengths of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Our first main result is that the order of lengths of curves determine a point in Teichm\"uller space. In an opposite direction, we identify classes of curves whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Hugo Parlier , Hanh Vo , Binbin Xu

Biharmonic curves are a generalization of geodesics, with applications in elasticity theory and various branches of computer science. The paper proposes a first study of biharmonic curves in spaces with Finslerian geometry, covering the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Nicoleta Voicu

We present a brief but nearly self-contained proof of a formula for the Weil-Petersson Hessian of the geodesic length of a closed curve (either simple or not simple) on a hyperbolic surface. The formula is the sum of the integrals of two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Michael Wolf