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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

We show that there is generically non-uniqueness for the anisotropic Calder\'on problem at fixed frequency when the Dirichlet and Neumann data are measured on disjoint sets of the boundary of a given domain. More precisely, we first show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Thierry Daudé , Niky Kamran , Francois Nicoleau

We show that an enlargeable Riemannian metric on a (possibly nonspin) manifold cannot have uniformly positive scalar curvature. This extends a well-known result of Gromov and Lawson to the nonspin setting. We also prove that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Simone Cecchini , Thomas Schick

In this paper, close surfaces are considered in 3-dimensional harmonic conformally flat space in point of the variation. It is shown that if the conformal vector field be tangent to surface and the sign of the mean curvature does not change…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Najma mosadegh , Esmaiel Abedi

We study a variational problem on a smooth manifold with a decomposition of the tangent bundle into $k>2$ subbundles (distributions), namely, we consider the integrated sum of their mixed scalar curvatures as a functional of adapted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Vladimir Rovenski , Tomasz Zawadzki

Let $M$ be a graph manifold such that each piece of its JSJ decomposition has the $\Bbb H^2 \times \Bbb R$ geometry. Assume that the pieces are glued by isometries. Then, there exists a complete Riemannian metric on $\Bbb R \times M$ which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Koji Fujiwara , Takashi Shioya

Let $R$ be a constant. Let $\mathcal{M}^R_\gamma$ be the space of smooth metrics $g$ on a given compact manifold $\Omega^n$ ($n\ge 3$) with smooth boundary $\Sigma $ such that $g$ has constant scalar curvature $R$ and $g|_{\Sigma}$ is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Pengzi Miao , Luen-Fai Tam

In this article, we study Conformal pointwise-slant Riemannian maps (\textit{CPSRM}) from or to K\"{a}hler manifolds to or from Riemannian manifolds. To check the existence of such maps, we provide some non-trivial examples. We derive some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-31 A. Zaidi , G. Shanker , J. Yadav

We study the asymptotic behavior of geodesics near the boundary of a conformally compact Riemannian manifold $(X,g)$. In the case where the sectional curvature at infinity is constant (the asymptotically hyperbolic case) it is known that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Sean N. Curry , Achinta Kumar Nandi

In 1992, motivated by Riemann mapping theorem, Escobar considered a version of Yamabe problem on manifolds of dimension n greater than 2 with boundary. The problem consists in finding a conformal metric such that the scalar curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-09 Szu-yu Sophie Chen

Let $(M^n,g),~n\ge 3$ be a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold with compact boundary and $f$ a smooth function on $\partial M$. In this paper we show that for a large class of such manifolds, there exists a metric within the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Fernando Schwartz

Metrics on shape space are used to describe deformations that take one shape to another, and to determine a distance between them. We study a family of metrics on the space of curves, that includes several recently proposed metrics, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Stephen Marsland , Peter W. Michor

Our aim in this paper is to study local rigidity for metrics defined on a compact manifold $M$ with boundary satisfying constant scalar curvature on $M$ and constant mean curvature on $\partial M$. We present some geometrical hypotheses…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Sandra C. García-Martinez , J. Herrera

On four-dimensional closed manifolds we introduce a class of canonical Riemannian metrics, that we call weak harmonic Weyl metrics, defined as critical points in the conformal class of a quadratic functional involving the norm of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

The geometrical diffraction theory, in the sense of Keller,is here reconsidered as an obstacle problem in the Riemannian geometry. The first result is the proof of the existence and the analysis of the main properties of the diffracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico De Micheli , Giacomo Monti Bragadin , Giovanni Alberto Viano

Using elementary comparison geometry, we prove: Let $(M,g)$ be a simply-connected complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $\ge 3$. Suppose that the sectional curvature $K$ satisfies $ -1-s(r) \le K \le -1$, where $r$ denotes distance to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Harish Seshadri

We consider the problem of varying conformally the metric of a four dimensional manifold in order to obtain constant $Q$-curvature. The problem is variational, and solutions are in general found as critical points of saddle type. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Andrea Malchiodi

We establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for constructing gradient Einstein-type warped metrics. One of these conditions leads us to a general Lichnerowicz equation with analytic and geometric coefficients for this class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-03 José Nazareno Vieira Gomes , Willian Isao Tokura

In this paper, we investigate the problem of prescribing Chern scalar curvatures on compact Hermitian manifolds with negative Gauduchon degree. By studying the convergence of the associated geometric flow, we obtain some existence results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Weike Yu

This paper considers the prescribed zero scalar curvature and mean curvature problem on the n-dimensional Euclidean ball for $n \geq 3$. Given a rotationally symmetric function $H:\partial B^{n}\rightarrow R$, in this work, we will prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Alvaro Ortiz , Gonzalo Garcia