Questions tagged [mg.metric-geometry]
Euclidean, hyperbolic, discrete, convex, coarse geometry, metric spaces, comparisons in Riemannian geometry, symmetric spaces.
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Is Sydler's theorem concerning Dehn invariants constructive?
Sydler proved something of a converse to Dehn's negative resolution
of Hilbert's 3rd problem. To quote Wikipedia, Sydler showed that
"every two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volumes and Dehn ...
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Gromov Hausdorff distance to tubular neighborhood
Let $M$ be a compact path metric space in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and for $\sigma>0$,
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M_\sigma:=\{y\in\mathbb{R}^d:\min_{x\in M}\|x-y\|\leq\sigma\}
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the $\sigma$-tube around $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. I ...
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Probability of intersecting a rectangle with random straight lines
We are given a rectangle $R$ with sides lengths $r_1$ and $r_2$, contained in a square $S$, with sides lengths $s_1=s_2\ge r_1$ and $s_2=s_1\ge r_2$. $R$ and $S$ are axis-aligned in a cartesian plane $...
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On covering convex 2D regions with rectangles
Given a convex 2D region $C$ and a positive integer $N$. We need to cover $C$ with $N$ rectangles such that the sum of the areas of the $N$ rectangles is the least – no further constraints on the ...
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Asymptotic bound on minimum epsilon cover of arbitrary manifolds
Let $M \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a compact smooth $k$-dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Let $\mathcal{N}(\varepsilon)$ denote the minimal cardinal of an $\varepsilon$-cover $P$ of $M$; ...
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Does this iterated Delaunay triangulation process always "explode"?
Let $P$ be a set of three noncollinear points in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Iteratively form the
Delaunay triangulation
$\cal T$ of $P$, and then
augment $P$ by the circumcircle centers of all triangles in $\...
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Growth function of locally compact groups
Every locally compact second countable group $G$ has a regular left-invariant measure $h$, the Haar measure. On the other hand the Birkhoff–Kakutani Theorem asserts that such groups also admit a ...
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Countable subcover of half-open cylinders
While preparing a lecture on dynamic programming principle in optimal stochastic control after the book of Touzi, I discovered a gap in the proof of DPP (page 28 of the book).
Here I simplify the ...
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Proof of a statement from Steele's "Probability theory and combinatorial optimization"
I am reading "Probability theory and combinatorial optimization" by J.M. Steele and am hung up on a statement made in Section 2.2 of Chapter 2, "Easy size bounds", in which it is stated (paraphrasing ...
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Does a metric refine the weak-* topology on a dual space?
Let $X$ be a topological affine space over $\mathbb C$, with no additional assumptions. Let $X^*$ denote its dual space of continuous affine functionals $X \to \mathbb C$, equipped with the weak-$*$ ...
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Symmetric matrices and Hilbert's fourth problem
From the analytic viewpoint, the Busemann-Pogorelov solution of Hilbert's fourth problem is summarized in the following result:
Theorem. All straight lines are extremals of the variational problem
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What are compact manifolds such that GROWTH (of spheres volumes) is well approximated by the Gaussian normal distribution?
Consider some compact Riemannian manifold $M$. Fix some point $p$.
Consider a "sub-sphere of radius $r$" - i.e. set of points on distance $r$ from $p$.
Consider growth function $g(r)$ to be ...
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Does there exist a plane curve such that it has the heart curve as catacaustic?
Given a curve $C$ and a fixed point $L$ (the light source), the catacaustic of $C$ with respect to $L$ is the envelope of light rays coming from $L$ and reflected from the curve $C$.
The catacaustic ...
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When is a distance space dominated by a metric space?
A distance space is a pair $(X,d)$ where $X$ is a set and $d:X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a symmetric, non-negative map such that $d(x,x)=0$ for all $x \in X$. These are sometimes called semi-...
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Does every Tarski plane embed into a 3-dimensional Tarski space?
By a Tarski space I understand a mathematical structure $(X,B,\equiv)$ consisting of set $X$, a betweenness relation $B\subseteq X^3$ and a congruence relation ${\equiv}\subseteq X^2\times X^2$ ...
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Vector algebra in a Tarski space
By a Tarski space I understand a mathematical structure $(X,B,E)$ consisting of a set $X$, a ternary betweenness relation $B\subseteq X^3$ and a 4-ary equidistance relation $E\subseteq X^2\times X^2$ ...
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Does the Segment-Circle Axiom imply the Circle-Circle Axiom in a non-Euclidean Tarski plane?
By a Tarski plane I understand a mathematical structure $(X,B,\equiv)$ consisting of set $X$, a betweenness relation $B\subseteq X^3$ and a congruence relation ${\equiv}\subseteq X^2\times X^2$ ...
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What is a non-smooth connection?
Let $p : E \to B$ be a map of topological spaces, and $p^I : E^I \to B^I$ the induced map of path spaces. Let $Cocyl(p) = B^I \times_B E$ be the space of paths $\beta$ in $B$ equipped with a lift of $\...
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How many equilaterals have vertices intersections of angle trisectors of a triangle?
The celebrated Morley’s theorem ensures that the interior trisectors, proximal to sides respectively, meet at vertices of an equilateral.
In the paper Trisectors like Bisectors with Equilaterals ...
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Roundest polyhedra: how well can we bound the edge count of their faces?
By "roundest" I mean having the lowest surface area for the highest volume, given a fixed number of faces $n$. There've been a few questions about them on here (including from me), but I'm ...
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Factorization of metric space-valued maps through vector-valued Sobolev spaces
Let $(X,d,m)$ and $(Y,\rho,n)$ be metric measure spaces and let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a Borel-measurable function for which there is some $y_0$ and some $p\geq 0$ such that
$$
\int_{x\in X}\,d(y_0,f(x)...
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How big a box can you wrap with a given polygon?
Question: Given a convex polygonal region, how does one find the box (rectangular parallelopiped) of maximum volume that can be wrapped with this region? While wrapping, if needed, some portions of ...
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Nearby convex set in a nearby space
Let $K$ be a convex set in a CAT(0) space $X$. Suppose $X'$ is a CAT(0) space that is very close to $X$.
Is there a convex set $K'\subset X'$ that is close to $K\subset X$?
Two spaces $X$ and $X'$ ...
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Mazur-Ulam bases in finite-dimensional Banach spaces
Definition. A basis $e_1,\dots,e_n$ of a finite-dimensional Banach space $X$ is called Mazur-Ulam if all vectors $e_1,\dots,e_n$ have norm one and every self-isometry $f:S_X\to S_X$ of the unit sphere ...
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Does this plane geometry theorem have a name (well-known)?
Consider three circles $(O_1)$, $(O_2)$, $(O_3)$. Denote the homothetic center of $\{$$(O_1)$, $(O_2)$$\}$ by $A$, the homothetic center of $\{$$(O_2)$, $(O_3)$$\}$ by $B$. Let $C$, $D$ be two points ...
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Which $n$-gons of diameter 1 maximize the moment of inertia?
Background: Among convex plane $n$-gons of unit diameter, we can try to achieve:
the largest area. (This is called the biggest little polygon with $n$ sides; for $n$ odd, the regular polygon on $n$ ...
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When is the cut locus a finite tree?
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbf{R}^2$ be a bounded, simply connected domain, with a regular boundary, say of class $C^2$ at least. Let the cut locus $C$ of $\Omega$ be the set of points $x \in \Omega$ for ...
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What inequalities for convex sets are known since the work of Scott and Awyong?
In 2000, Paul R. Scott and Poh Way Awyong published the paper Inequalities for Convex Sets, which nicely collates the known results relating various natural geometric functionals (diameter, area, etc.)...
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Odd Steinhaus problem for finite sets
Call a finite subset $S$ of the plane with an even number of points an odd Jackson set, if there is an $A\subset \mathbb R^2$ such that $A$ meets every congruent copy of $S$ in an odd number of points....
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Continuity of embeddings and systole as you vary a metric
Let $M$ be a smooth compact manifold and let $R(M)$ be the set of Riemannian metrics on $M$, topologized with the $C^\infty$ topology (viewing a metric as a section of an appropriate bundle).
I have ...
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Shortest path on Riemannian manifold with boundary
Let $(M^n,g)$ be a smooth Riemannian manifold with non-empty boundary $\partial M$. Let $x\in \partial M$. Let $v\in T_x(\partial M)$ be a unit vector tangent to the boundary. Assume
$$II_{\partial M}(...
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An extension of Erdos' distinct distances problem based on circles of various radii
Consider a collection $C_1,C_2, \dots, C_n$ of circles in the plane and suppose that the center of $C_i$ is $o_i$ and the radius of $C_i$ is $r_i$. We will define the relative distance between the ...
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ultrametric Rademacher theorem
The classic Rademacher theorem roughly states that Lipschitz continuous functions are almost everywhere differentiable. However, there are well-known ultrametric counterexamples, see Kobliz's classic ...
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Is this function embeddable in Euclidean space?
Let $X = \{v_1,\ldots,v_n\}$ be a set of vectors non-zero vectors $v_i \ge 0$ and such that the vectors are pairwise linear independent. Define a function on this set $X$:
$$d(v,w) = 1-\frac{2 \...
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Area-preserving map of punctured disk to itself
If $D_r = \{v\in \mathbb{R}^2 : 0 \lt |v| \lt r\}$, consider the map $f_r: D_r \to D_r$ given by:
$$f_r(x,y) = \frac{\sqrt{r^2-x^2-y^2}}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}\left(-y,x\right)$$
Geometrically, $f_r(v) \...
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"Moduli space" of isotropic convex bodies?
A lot of questions in convex geometry revolve around the geometry of isotropic convex bodies in $\mathbb{R^n}$.
To my knowledge there is no, or very little study of a space such as :
$$C_n = \{...
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Is there any work in topological data analysis on something like "Voronoi complexes"?
Given a finite set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, we can of course construct the corresponding Čech or Vietoris-Rips filtration. At each level of this filtration the scale parameter is fixed and unrelated ...
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Adjoint of the Hodge de Rham star operator under the integral pairing
Given a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ of dimension $n$, the Hodge star operator $\star: \Omega^k(M) \to \Omega^{n-k}(M)$ is defined. What is the (formal) adjoint of $\star$ under the integration ...
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How to pack 27 $a\times b\times c$ blocks into a cube of side $a+b+c$ with some kind of symmetry?
Recently I stumbled on the problem quoted here about a geometric proof of the AM-GM inequality $$(a_1+\cdots+a_n)^n\ge n^n a_1\cdots a_n$$ by packing $n^n$ rectangular $ n$-dimensional boxes of sides $...
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What quantum groups admit quantum topography space structure?
Quantum topography space is a pair $(A,M)$ consisting of a $C^*$-algebra $A$ and an abelian sub algebra $M\subset A$ with approximate identity. The intuition is to take $M$ be the smallest abelian ...
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Approximating a ray with an integer lattice point
Take $X$ uniform on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n.$ For $r>0$, take $S_r=\{x\in \mathbb{Z}^n: \sum_i x_i^2 \leq r^2\}.$
With $\|\cdot \|$ the 2-norm, what is the distribution (or at least the ...
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Sets of points avoiding small angles
(1) $\mathbb{R}^2$.
I'd like to place $n$ points in the plane so that the smallest angle they
determine is as large as possible.
In a sense, such a point set is in very general position, not only
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Local isometry of complete length spaces that is not a covering map
Let $\pi:\widetilde{M}\to M$ be a surjective local isometry between complete length spaces (local isometry means that every point $x\in \widetilde{M}$ has a neighborhood which is isometrically mapped ...
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How to calculate the area and volume of a gömböc? [closed]
What are the correct formulas for calculating the area and the volume of the gömböc, if any have developed them? If there are none, could you help creating them?
The gömböc is a neat convex three-...
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Distance measures that preserve Pythagoras' theorem but break the triangle inequality
In information geometry, we can think of the Kullback-Leibler divergence as being "something like a squared distance."
The sense of this is that if we have three probability measures, $P$, $Q$ and $R$...
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Isometric embedding of regular simplex into Riemannian manifold
Let $\{v_1,\cdots,v_k\}$ be the vertices of a regular $(k-1)$-simplex $\Delta(k,\ell)$, with a given metric such that the pairwise distance between the vertices is $\ell$.
Given a Riemannian ...
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Stable norm on hyperbolic surfaces
For a hyperbolic surface $S$ and a homology class $h\in H_1(S)$ its stable norm is defined as $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}l(nh)$, where $l(nh)$ means the minimal length among all closed geodesics ...
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Cut locus on a hypercube
Inspired by the question, "Shortest path connecting two opposite points on a cube":
Q. What does the cut locus with respect to one corner of a hypercube
in $\mathbb{R}^d$ look like?
"The cut ...
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Is there a Bishop-Gromov inequality for manifolds with boundary?
EDIT. Let $M^n$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary.
Assume in addition that near the boundary $M$ is locally geodesically convex.
Assume that the Ricci curvature satisfies $...
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