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The aim of this paper is to present some new Fejer-type results for convex functions. Improvements of Young's inequality (the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality) and other applications to special means are pointed as well.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-03-22 N. Minculete , F. -C. Mitroi

We introduce a method for constructing Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesics with certain behavior in the Teichm\"{u}ller space. This allows us to study the itinerary of geodesics among the strata of the WP completion and its relation to subsurface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Yair Minsky , Babak Modami

Algorithms for the computation of the forward and inverse geodesic problems for an ellipsoid of revolution are derived. These are accurate to better than 15 nm when applied to the terrestrial ellipsoids. The solutions of other problems…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Charles F. F. Karney

In our previous paper on this topic, we introduced the notion of k-Hessian measure associated with a continuous k-convex function in a domain \Om in Euclidean n-space, k=1,...,n, and proved a weak continuity result with respect to local…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Neil S. Trudinger , Xu-Jia Wang

Here we examine some connections between the notions of generalized arithmetic means, geodesics, Lagrange-Hamilton dynamics and Bregman divergences. In a previous paper we developed a predictive interpretation of generalized arithmetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Henryk Gzyl

Wolpert's cosine formula on Teichm\"uller space gives the Weil-Petersson Poisson bracket $\{l_\alpha, l_\beta\}$ for geodesic length functions $l_\alpha,l_\beta$ of closed curves $\alpha,\beta$ as the sum of the cosines of the angle of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Martin Bridgeman

We study the local and global versions of the convexity, which is closely related to the problem of extending a convex function on a non-convex domain to a convex function on the convex hull of the domain and beyond the convex hull. We also…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Min Yan

Recently, many researchers devoted their attention to study the extensions of the gamma and beta functions. In the present work, we focus on investigating some approximations for a class of Gauss hypergeometric functions by exploiting…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Mustapha Raissouli , Mohamed Chergui

This study focuses on convex functions and their generalized. Thus, we start this study by giving the definition of convex functions and some of their properties and discussing a simple geometric property. Then we generalize E-convex…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Adem Kilicman , Wedad Saleh

We propose an optimization algorithm for computing geodesics on the universal Teichm\"uller space T(1) in the Weil-Petersson ($W P$) metric. Another realization for T(1) is the space of planar shapes, modulo translation and scale, and thus…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Matt Feiszli , Akil Narayan

A mapping M(t) is considered to obtain some preliminary results and a new trapezoidal form of Fejer inequality related to the h-convex functions. Furthermore the obtained results are applied to achieve some new inequalities in connection…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-19 M. Rostamian Delavar , S. S. Dragomir

We present a view of the current understanding of the geometry of Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesics on the completion of the Teichm\"uller space. We sketch a collection of results by other authors and then proceed to develop the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Scott A. Wolpert

In this note we continue our investigation of geodesics in the space of convex and plurisubharmonic functions. We show optimal regularity for geodesics joining two smooth strictly convex functions. We also investigate the regularity theory…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Soufian Abja , Slawomir Dinew

We find an upper bound for geodesic distances associated to monotone Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices and density matrices.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Anna Jencova

In analogy with the study of Pollicott-Ruelle resonances on negatively curved manifolds, we define anisotropic Sobolev spaces that are well-adapted to the analysis of the geodesic vector field associated with any translation invariant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Nguyen Viet Dang , Matthieu Léautaud , Gabriel Rivière

This is a survey paper on the topic of Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller spaces. Even though historically the subject has been developed as a branch of complex analysis, the treatment here is from the view-point of differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Sumio Yamada

We describe the geometry of geodesics on a Lorentz ellipsoid: give explicit formulas for the first integrals (pseudo-confocal coordinates), curvature, geodesically equivalent Riemannian metric, the invariant area-forms on the time- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Genin , B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

We quickly review and make some comments on the concept of convexity in metric spaces due to Takahashi. Then we introduce a concept of convex structure based convexity to functions on these spaces and refer to it as $W-$convexity.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Ahmed A. Abdelhakim

The solution of the geodesic problem for an oblate ellipsoid is developed in terms of series. Tables are provided to simplify the computation. [This is an English translation of F. W. Bessel, Astronomische Nachrichten 4(86), 241-254 (1825).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 F. W. Bessel , Charles F. F. Karney , Rodney E. Deakin

This paper deals with the famous isoperimetric inequality. In a first part, we give some new functional form of the isoperimetric inequality, and in a second part, we give a quantitative form with a remainder term involving Wasserstein…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Erik Thomas