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We study lattices in non-positively curved metric spaces. Borel density is established in that setting as well as a form of Mostow rigidity. A converse to the flat torus theorem is provided. Geometric arithmeticity results are obtained…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-18 P. -E. Caprace , N. Monod

We consider linear mappings on the $d$-dimensional torus, defined by $T(x) = Ax \pmod 1$, where $A$ is an invertible $d \times d$ integer matrix, with no eigenvalues on the unit circle. In the case $d = 2$ and $\det A = \pm 1$, we give a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Zhang-nan Hu , Tomas Persson

In this paper, we establish a sufficient condition for a geodesic in a Riemannian manifold to be homogeneous, i.e. an orbit of an $1$-parameter isometry group. As an application of this result, we provide a new proof of the fact that every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-22 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Building on work of Kapouleas and Yang, we construct sequences of minimal surfaces embedded in the round 3-sphere which converge to the Clifford torus counted with multiplicity two and have second fundamental form blowing up at every point…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 David Wiygul

We show that there exists a metric with positive scalar curvature on S2xS1 and a sequence of embedded minimal cylinders that converges to a minimal lamination that, in a neighborhood of a strictly stable 2-sphere, is smooth except at two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-06 Maria Calle , Darren Lee

In this work, we study the geodesics of the space of certain geometrically and physically motivated subspaces of the space of immersed curves endowed with a first order Sobolev metric. This includes elastic curves and also an extension of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

The program of understanding Shape Theory layer by layer topologically and geometrically -- proposed in Part I -- is now addressed for 4 points in 1-$d$. Topological shape space graphs are far more complex here, whereas metric shape spaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-15 Edward Anderson

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

A spherical quadrilateral is a bordered surface homeomorphic to a closed disk, with four distinguished boundary points called corners, equipped with a Riemannian metric of constant curvature 1, except at the corners, and such that the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Alexandre Eremenko , Andrei Gabrielov , Vitaly Tarasov

We prove that the isometric embedding of any metric of differentiability class C1 in E3 exists. We use simplified notation for the given metric, namely geodesic parameters, and level parameters for the embedded surface in E3. Central to our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Edgar Kann

We study the geometry of the Thurston metric on Teichmuller space by examining its geodesics and comparing them to Teichmuller geodesics. We show that, similar to a Teichmuller geodesic, the shadow of a Thurston geodesic to the curve graph…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

A Finsler space is said to be geodesically reversible if each oriented geodesic can be reparametrized as a geodesic with the reverse orientation. A reversible Finsler space is geodesically reversible, but the converse need not be true. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-02 Robert L. Bryant

To any compact Riemann surface of genus g one may assign a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension g, the Jacobian of the Riemann surface. The Jacobian is a complex torus, and a Gram matrix of the lattice of a Jacobian is called…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Bjoern Muetzel

Here shape space is either the manifold of simple closed smooth unparameterized curves in $\mathbb R^2$ or is the orbifold of immersions from $S^1$ to $\mathbb R^2$ modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of $S^1$. We investige several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-01 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford

The goal of the article is to provide different explicit quantifications of the non density of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. In particular, we show that within any embedded metric disk on a surface, lies a disk of radius…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Peter Buser , Hugo Parlier

We consider the problem of finding embedded closed geodesics on the two-sphere with an incomplete metric defined outside a point. Various techniques including curve shortening methods are used.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Norbury , J. Hyam Rubinstein

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces, which is defined as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of a geodesic disk at a vertex of a polyhedral surface. It is proved that each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

We study a class of homeomorphisms of surfaces collectively known as linked-twist maps. We introduce an abstract definition which enables us to give a precise characterisation of a property observed by other authors, namely that such maps…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-12-05 James Springham

In this short note, we show that, in any given metric space, every Lipschitz open-map image of every subset of a given metric space whose boundary is Hausdorff-null is Hausdorff-measurable with respect to the same dimension. The main…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Yu-Lin Chou

We study the intrinsic structure of parametric minimal discs in metric spaces admitting a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. We associate to each minimal disc a compact, geodesic metric space whose geometric, topological, and analytic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Alexander Lytchak , Stefan Wenger