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Jacobi fields on non-geodesic curves
The point of Jacobi fields is to study variations of geodesics through geodesics, but the Jacobi equation $D_t^2 J + R(J,\dot\gamma)\dot\gamma=0$ makes sense for any curve $\gamma$, not just for ...
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Hermitian sectional curvature
Let $N$ be a Riemannian manifold, denote $R$ its purely covariant Riemann curvature tensor with sign convention so that the sectional curvature is $K(X,Y) = R(X,Y,X,Y)$ for an orthonormal pair.
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The space of positive scalar curvature metrics on $S^4$
Let $\mathcal{R}_{+\mathrm{sc}}(S^n)$ denote the space of complete Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on the sphere $S^n$. It's known that $\mathcal{R}_{+\mathrm{sc}}(S^2)$ is ...
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Conventions for Riemann curvature tensor
I am aware of two conventions for the Riemann curvature tensor, namely the expression
$$\langle\nabla_X\nabla_YZ-\nabla_Y\nabla_XZ-\nabla_{[X,Y]}Z,W\rangle$$
is either declared to be $R(X,Y,Z,W)$ or $...
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Formula for difference between curvature operators?
This is a re-editing of a prerviously posted question:
Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold. Let $C:TM\to TM$ be symmetric positive definite. Define the metric
$$
(X,Y)_C = (X,CY)_g.
$$
Denote by $\...
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On the curvature tensor with certain conditions
Let $(M^{n+m},g)$ be a Riemannian manifold and let $\lbrace X_1,...,X_n,Y_1,...,Y_m\rbrace $ be a locally orthonormal frame for $M$($3\leq n,m$).
If we suppose the curvature tensor $R$ of $g$ ...
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Negative curvature in the middle of $R^{3}$
What's a simple example of metric on $R^{3}$ which has negative scalar curvature inside of a (limited) set N, and is equal to the standard (Euclidean) metric outside?
Basically, I am asking for a ...
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Upper bound on the sectional curvature of a Riemannian submersion
Consider the manifold $M := \operatorname{SO}(n) \times \mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, endowed with the product metric given by the bi-invariant metric of $\operatorname{SO}(n)$ and the round metric of $\mathbb{S}...
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How is this product of tensors defined?
I am reading the paper “ The first eigenvalue of a small geodesic ball in a riemannian manifold”, by Karp and Pinsky, from where I took the following:
Here, $\Delta_{-2}$ denotes the usual Laplacian ...
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Parallel transport of global sections and Riemannian curvature
A, perhaps, naive question from an algebraist/combinatorialist teaching differential geometry. Originally asked on math.SE but didn't receive a single comment in 3 days.
Consider a (real) smooth ...
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The range of $\int_M \kappa_g ds$ where $g$ varies in all possible real analytic metrics on $M$
Let $M$ be a real analytic open surface(A non compact 2 dimensional manifold without boundary).
For every number $\lambda\in \mathbb{R}$, is there a real analytic Riemannian metric on $M$ with
$$\...
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Scalar curvature in terms of second fundamental form, reference request
I would like to cite a reference for the following formula for scalar curvature:
If $\Sigma$ is a hypersurface in Euclidean space, then $R=H^2-\lvert A\rvert^2$, where $R$ is the scalar curvature ...
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Limit cycles of quadratic systems and closed geodesics(Finitness of $H(2)$)
This question is inspired by this answer to the question Finding a 1-form adapted to a smooth flow.
Assume that $V$ is a polynomial vector field of degree $2$ as follows:$$\begin{cases} x'=P(...
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Flows associated with Killing fields
Let $M$ be a Riemann manifold and $p, q$ two points on a geodesic $\sigma$ which are isotropically conjugate. That is, there is a Jacobi field along $\sigma$ vanishing at $p$ and $q$ which is the ...
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Normal fields of geodesic spheres
This question is related to this one (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1383511/normal-curvature-of-geodesic-spheres) I've asked at math.stackexchange. Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian ...
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Geometric interpretation for a connection whose corresponding distribution generates the whole Lie algebras of vector fields
Let we have a connection on a manifold $M$ so it is considered as a distribution on the tangent bundle $TM$ of $M$. The integrability of this distrbution is equivalent to flatness of the connection.
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A higher-dimensional "line of curvature"?
Let $M$ be a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold $Q$, and let $\Gamma$ be a $d$-dimensional submanifold of $M$, i.e., $\Gamma^{d} \subset M \subset Q$.
Suppose that, for all (unit) normal vectors of $...
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Flat Riemannian metrics adapted to quadratic vector fields with center
Assume that $P(x,y),Q(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}[x,y]$ are two polynomials of degree $2$ with $P(0,0)=Q(0,0)=0.$
Suppose that the vector field $$\begin{cases} x'=P(x,y)\\ y'=Q(x,y) \end{cases}$$ has a center ...
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Conformal Transformations that are Ricci Positive Invariant
Is there any known class of conformal transformations $\phi : M \to M$ of a riemannian/semi-riemanian manifold $(M,g)$ that have the property: $g$ is ricci-positive iff $\phi^* g$ ricci positive?
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Obtaining the metric from the mixed Ricci tensor $R^i{}_j$
In chapter 5 of the book "Einstein Manifolds", Arthur Besse discusses the possibility to find the metric $g$ when knowing the Ricci curvature tensor $Ric(g)$ ($=R_{ij}$).
But what do we know about ...
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Diameter bounds by mean curvature and area
I'm wondering about a generalization of Simon/Topping/Wu-Zheng's results on bounding diameter by the mean curvature, which roughly says: given a closed $\Sigma^{n-1} \subseteq M^n$,
$$\text{diam}(\...
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Asymptotics on the number of diffeomorphism classes in the Cheeger finiteness theorem
A result of Cheeger says that, given any even dimension and any $\delta > 0$, there are only a finite number of diffeomorphism types of compact simply-connected manifolds of that dimension which ...
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Conformal changes of metric and normal coordinates
Suppose that $(M,g)$ is a smooth Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$. Let $p\in M^{\textrm{int}}$. Does there exist a small $\delta>0$ and a smooth function $c>0$ such that for the ...
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Parallelism defect
I have a question that I don't know how to answer.
If I have a parallelism defect it is due to the presence of a curvature and therefore we can bring it back to a Riemann tensor.
The thing that is not ...
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Comparison of sum of vectors and exponential map on a Riemannian manifold
Suppose $M$ is a simply-connected complete Riemannian manifold with bounded sectional curvature $\delta \leq K \leq \Delta < 0$. Let $p_0\in M$. Define the sequence of points $p_1, \ldots, p_n$ by
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A geometric rank of Riemannian manifolds
There are various ranks which have been assigned to a smooth manifold. The following ranks are two examples of such ranks:
The maximum number of global independent vector fields which can be defined ...
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Bounding distance between geodesics in manifolds with nonpositive curvature
This is a duplicate of a question at the stackexchange which was not answered. I've recently read (in some notes by Mark Pollicott) the following related claims, which, although quite intuitive, I ...
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Spherical cap is the only compact constant mean curvature surface bounded by a circle
I would like to see that the only compact rotationally invariant constant mean curvature surfaces with boundary a planar circle, are either a planar disk or a spherical cap.
This is stated in the ...
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Bilipschitz constants of exponential map on small ball for Riemannian manifold with curvature bounds
Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $\mathrm{sect}$ between $-K\le \mathrm{sect} \le K$ for some $K>0$. In [1] it is stated at the beginning of section 4, that if $u,v\in ...
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Ricci-flat metrics on complex tori of dimension $n \geq 3$
Let $\mathbb{T}^n = \mathbb{C}^n /\Lambda$ be a complex torus of (complex) dimension $n$. If $n=2$, it is a theorem of Berger that the Ricci-flat metrics on $\mathbb{T}^2$ are flat. This follows from ...
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Computing/estimating geodesics in practice
Let's say I have a Riemannian manifold with known metric $g$. I want to compute the geodesics of this manifold, specifically with respect to the Levi-Civita connection.
In practice, (i.e. with a ...
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Natural measures of curvature of Riemannian manifold along two-dimensional subspace
Given a Riemannian manifold $M$, a point $p \in M$, and some two-dimensional subspace $\varSigma$ of $T_{p}M$, the sectional curvature $K(\varSigma)$ is a well-known, natural measure of the curvature ...
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Computation of scalar curvature from a Riemannian metric
I want to compute the scalar curvature for points on an empirical manifold (sampled data).
I have already an algorithm that learns the Riemannian metric and computes geodesics, so from the metric I ...
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mean curvature for codimension $>1$?
The mean curvature of a hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold is defined to be the trace of the second fundamental form. I was curious, does the notion of mean curvature generalise to higher ...
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Gauss curvature of a fibre as a submanifold in a Riemannian warped product
Consider the Riemannian warped product $M^{n+1}=I\times\mathbb{S}^n$ with metric
\begin{align}
g=dt\otimes dt+f(t)^2g_{\mathbb{S}^n}
\end{align}
where $I\subseteq\mathbb{R}$ is some open interval and ...
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Surfaces in isothermal coordinates and particular PDE
From Brioschi's formula, if we have a surface in isothermal coordinates were $g_{ij}=E(u,v)*\delta_{ij}$ is the metric tensor, the gaussian curvature is:
$K=-\frac{1}{2E}[\frac{\partial}{\partial u}(...
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