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A problem that is simple to state in the context of spherical geometry, and that seems rather interesting, appears to have been unexamined to date in the mathematical literature. The problem can also be recast as a problem in the real…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Michael Q. Rieck

Second order Sobolev metrics are a useful tool in the shape analysis of curves. In this paper we combine these metrics with varifold-based inexact matching to explore a new strategy of computing geodesics between unparametrized curves. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Martins Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Nicolas Charon , Jakob Møller-Andersen

In the study of immersed surfaces of constant positive extrinsic curvature in space-forms, it is natural to substitute completeness for a weaker property, which we here call quasicompleteness. We determine the global geometry of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Graham Smith

We study geometric and topological properties of locally compact, geodesically complete spaces with an upper curvature bound. We control the size of singular subsets, discuss homotopical and measure-theoretic stratifications and regularity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Alexander Lytchak , Koichi Nagano

Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

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We give a proof of an unpublished result of Thurston showing that given any hyperbolic metric on a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, there exists another hyperbolic metric on the same surface for which the lengths of all simple…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Athanase Papadopoulos , Guillaume Théret

We show that a conformal connection on a closed oriented surface $\Sigma$ of negative Euler characteristic preserves precisely one conformal structure and is furthermore uniquely determined by its unparametrised geodesics. As a corollary it…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Thomas Mettler

In this paper we consider flat metrics (semi-translation structures) on surfaces of finite type. There are two main results. The first is a complete description of when a set of simple closed curves is spectrally rigid, that is, when the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Moon Duchin , Christopher J. Leininger , Kasra Rafi

In this manuscript, an original numerical procedure for the nonlinear peridynamics on arbitrarily--shaped two-dimensional (2D) closed manifolds is proposed. When dealing with non parameterized 2D manifolds at the discrete scale, the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Alessandro Coclite , Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Francesco Maddalena , Tiziano Politi

We prove the existence of a constant $C > 0$ such that for any Riemannian metric $g$ on a 2-dimensional sphere $S^2$, there exist two distinct closed geodesics with lengths $L_{1}$ and $L_{2}$ satisfying $L_{1} L_{2} \leq C \cdot…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Talant Talipov

Subdivision surfaces are proven to be a powerful tool in geometric modeling and computer graphics, due to the great flexibility they offer in capturing irregular topologies. This paper discusses the robust and efficient implementation of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bert Jüttler , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Ricardo Perl , Martin Rumpf

In general relativity, an external observer cannot distinguish distinct internal structures between two spherically symmetric stars that have the same total mass $M$. However, when quantum corrections are taken into account, the external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Sojeong Cheong , Wontae Kim

We describe how some differential geometric bifurcation problems can be treated with the MATLAB continuation and bifurcation toolbox pde2path. The basic setup consists in solving the PDEs for the normal displacement of an immersed surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Alexander Meiners , Hannes Uecker

We derive various inequalities involving the intersection number of the curves contained in geodesics and tight geodesics in the curve graph. While there already exist such inequalities on tight geodesics, our method applies in the setting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Yohsuke Watanabe

We consider the number of configurations of a surface in two dimensions that has a prescribed length and encloses a prescribed perimeter with respect to a baseline. An approximate analytical treatment in a semi--continuum compares…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 E. D. Moore

Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital geometry processing, scientific computing, computer graphics, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Keenan Crane , Marco Livesu , Enrico Puppo , Yipeng Qin

We propose a new strong Riemannian metric on the manifold of (parametrized) embedded curves of regularity $H^s$, $s\in(3/2,2)$. We highlight its close relationship to the (generalized) tangent-point energies and employ it to show that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Elias Döhrer , Philipp Reiter , Henrik Schumacher

We examine closed geodesics in the quotient of hyperbolic three space by the discrete group of isometries SL(2,Z[i]). There is a correspondence between closed geodesics in the manifold, the complex continued fractions originally studied by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Katie McKeon

We consider the problem of embedding the nodes of a hypergraph into Euclidean space under the assumption that the interactions arose through closeness to unknown hyperedge centres. In this way, we tackle the inverse problem associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Francesco Zigliotto , Desmond J. Higham