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Is isoperimetric hypersurface unique up to homeomorphism?
Is there a Riemannian structure on $\mathbb{R}^n $with two non homeomorphic compact hypersurfaces $M,N$ such that both satisfy the isoperimetric inequality. I precisely meanthe following:
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Sufficient condition for existence of a closest-point projection from a neighborhood onto a subset of a Riemannian manifold
Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold and let $N$ be a subset of $M$.
On one hand, it is well known that if $N$ is an embedded submanifold of $M$, then it admits a tubular neighborhood, and, ...
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Checking that the image of a curve is not contained in a hyperplane
Let $\gamma : [0,1] \to \mathbb R^n$ be a smooth curve, $n \geq 2$. I would like to find an easy to check condition such that the image of $\gamma$ is not contained in an $n-1$ dimensional linear ...
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Equidistant points on a compact Riemannian manifold
Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. To this Riemannian manifold, we associate a natural number $K(M,g)$ as follows:
$K(M,g)$ is the maximum of all $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that we have at ...
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Does complexified isometry group act transitively on tangent bundle of compact Riemannian manifold?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\O{O}\DeclareMathOperator\Iso{Iso}$Let $ g $ be the round metric on the sphere $ S^n $. Since $ S^...
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Currents in sub-Riemannian geometry
Federer and Fleming's notion of "currents" is well established so far, and starting from the seminal work of Ambrosio and Kirchheim, the notion of metric currents is well studied also. The ...
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Smoothness of distance function to a compact set
Fix a non-empty compact subset $K\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ and let $d_K(x):=\min_{z \in K} \,\|z-x\|$ be the map sending any $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$ to its distance from $K$.
Suppose that:
$K$ is regular : ...
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When is a bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism smoothable?
Suppose I have a smooth Riemannian manifold $X$ with induced distance function $d$, and a bi-Lipschitz (with respect to $d$) homeomorphism
$$\phi: X \to X.$$
Under what circumstances could $\phi$ be ...
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Is there a volume-preserving diffeomorphism of the disk with prescribed singular values?
This is a cross-post. While working on a variational problem, I have reached to the following question.
Let $0<\sigma_1<\sigma_2$ satisfy $\sigma_1\sigma_2=1$, and let $D \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$...
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A basic question about compact $C^1$ surfaces with boundary
Let $S \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be a compact and locally $C^1$ simply-connected surface with a $C^1$ boundary with no self intersection. Is there a $C^1$ bijection $F: \overline{B(0,1)} \rightarrow \...
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$L^{2}$ Betti number
Let $\tilde{X}$ be a non-compact oriented, Riemannian manifold adimits a smooth metric $\tilde{g}$ on which a discrete group $\Gamma$ of orientation-preserving isometrics acts freely so that the ...
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A possible characterization of sphere or projective space
Is there a compact Riemanian manifold $M$ not diffeomorphic to sphere or real or complex or quaternion projective space which admit a diffeomorphism $f$ with the property that $$\forall x \in M, \...
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Does a minimum area disk that is bounded by a cycle $C$ continuously deform in $R^3$ as $C$ moves in $R^3$?
Let $C_1=(v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_{i-1},v_i)$ and $C_2=(v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_{i-1},v'_i)$ be two cycles that are drawn in $R^3$ in the shape of an unknot (not knotted) with straight line segments as their edges (...
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Does every smooth manifold admit a metric with bounded geometry and uniform growth?
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold, $g_M$ a Riemannian metric, and consider for $x\in M$ the volume growth function, $gr_x$ that maps $r>0$ to the volume $vol_{g_M}(B(x,r))$. My interest is to see ...
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Lorentzian metrics on the torus up to continuos deformations
Any two Riemannian metrics can easily be deformed into each other, only obtaining positive definite metrics in between.
However, for metrics of other signatures this might not be possible.
Which ...
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Normal tubular neighborhood theorem for semi(or pseudo)-riemannian manifolds
Suppose you have a manifold $M$ and a closed sub-manifold $A$, and let $g$ be a semi-riemannian metric,ie, $g_x$ defines a quadratic form on $T_xM$ such that $g_x(v,v)\ge0$, but $g_x(v,v)=0$ not ...
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Smooth maps transverse to a foliation
Let $M$ and $N$ be smooth manifolds and let $S$ be a submanifold of $N$ ($\dim S < \dim N$). Let $\mathfrak S$ be a foliation of $S$. We say that a map between $M$ and $N$ is transverse to $\...
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degenerating surface II
In degenerating surface, Robert Bryant give us an example of a sequence of minimal immersions which converges (in $C^2$- topology) to $z\mapsto z^{2k+1}$ on the unit disc $\mathbb{D}$. My question is ...
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When do two holonomy maps determine flat bundles that are isomorphic as just bundles (w/o regard to the flat connections)?
Suppose we have a surface S (although the question might make as much sense in higher dimensions) and a topological group G. The data of a flat vector bundle on S (up to isomorphism) is the same as a ...
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