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We consider the geodesic motions in the Kerr-Sen-AdS$_4$ spacetime. We obtain the equations of motion for light rays and test particles. Using the parametric diagrams, we shown some regions where the radial and latitudinal geodesic motions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Ziqiang Cai , Tong-Yu He , Wen-Qian Wang , Zhan-Wen Han , Rong-Jia Yang

The space of Gaussian measures on a Euclidean space is geodesically convex in the $L^2$-Wasserstein space. This space is a finite dimensional manifold since Gaussian measures are parameterized by means and covariance matrices. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Asuka Takatsu

In this survey the contemporary results concerning supersymmetries in generalized Schr\"odinger equations are presented. Namely, position dependent mass Sch\"odinger equations are discussed as well as the equations with matrix potentials.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 A. G. Nikitin

We formulate stochastic partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds, moving surfaces, general evolving Riemannian manifolds (with appropriate assumptions) and Riemannian manifolds with random metrics, in the variational setting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-30 C. M. Elliott , M. Hairer , M. R. Scott

Recently, the geodesibility of planar vector fields, which are algebrizable (differentiable in the sense of Lorch for some associative and commutative unital algebra), has been established. In this paper, we consider algebrizable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-03 M. E. Frías-Armenta , E. López-González

Exact solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the full theory of four dimensional gravity of Lorentzian signature are obtained. They are characterized by Schr\"odinger wavefunctionals having support on 3-metrics of constant spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-21 Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo

A discrete version of the two-dimensional inverse scattering problem is considered. On this basis, algebraic transformations for the two-dimensional finite-difference Schredinger equation are elaborated.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Suzko

The paper is devoted to the special classes of solutions to multidimensional balance laws of gas dynamic type. In the velocity field for the solutions of such class the time and space variables are separated. The simplest case is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Olga S. Rozanova

A recent generalisation of the Raychaudhuri equations for timelike geodesic congruences to families of $D$ dimensional extremal, timelike, Nambu--Goto surfaces embedded in an $N$ dimensional Lorentzian background is reviewed. Specialising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sayan Kar

We study Riemannian metrics on surfaces whose geodesic flows are superintegrable with one integral linear in momenta and one integral quartic in momenta. The main results of the work are local description of such metrics in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Pavel Novichkov

The geodesic deviation equation (GDE) describes the tendency of objects to accelerate towards or away from each other due to spacetime curvature. The GDE assumes that nearby geodesics have a small rate of separation, which is formally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-28 Isaac Raj Waldstein , J. David Brown

We consider higher-dimensional generalizations of the $\alpha$-Grushin plane, focusing on the problem of classification of geodesics that minimize length, also known as optimal synthesis. Solving Hamilton's equations on these spaces using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Michael Albert , Samuël Borza , Maria Gordina

We consider geometries on the space of Riemannian metrics conformally equivalent to the widely studied Ebin L^2 metric. Among these we characterize a distinguished metric that can be regarded as a generalization of Calabi's metric on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Brian Clarke , Yanir A. Rubinstein

We will develop simple relations between the arc-lengths of a pair of geodesics that share common end-points. The two geodesics differ only by the requirement that one is constrained to lie in a subspace of the parent manifold. We will…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Leo Brewin

It is known that all spatially homogeneous solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations in four dimensions which exist for an infinite proper time towards the future are future geodesically complete. This paper investigates whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Arne Goedeke , Alan D. Rendall

We study geodesics in generalized Wallach spaces which are expressed as orbits of products of three exponential terms. These are homogeneous spaces $M=G/K$ whose isotropy representation decomposes into a direct sum of three submodules…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

We present a numerical implementation of the geodesic ray transform and its inversion over functions and solenoidal vector fields on two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. For each problem, inversion formulas previously derived in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-17 François Monard

Metrics on Lie groupoids and differentiable stacks have been introduced recently, extending the Riemannian geometry of manifolds and orbifolds to more general singular spaces. Here we continue that theory, studying stacky curves on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Matias del Hoyo , Mateus de Melo

We announce a Python class for numerical solution of Schr{\"o}dinger equations in one or more space dimensions, employing some recently developed general classes for numerical solution of partial differential equations, and routines from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Amna Noreen , Kåre Olaussen

Several physical problems such as the `twin paradox' in curved spacetimes have purely geometrical nature and may be reduced to studying properties of bundles of timelike geodesics. The paper is a general introduction to systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-10 Leszek M. Sokołowski , Zdzisław A. Golda