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Can you do geometry with persistent homology?
Setup
In practice, persistent homology of data $X$ is often used to infer the homology of the underlying (Riemannian) manifold $M$ that the data is sampled from.
However most filtrations (Vietoris, ...
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General wedge-product for vector bundle valued forms
In mathematics and physics, especially gauge theory, there are many different but related notions of wedge products when discussing vector space- and vector bundle-valued differential forms. For ...
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Why are there finitely many deformation types of Calabi-Yau threefolds for a given diffeomorhpic type if $b_2 =1$?
In an article of Robert Friedman, I came up with a comment:
There are finitely many deformation types of Calabi-Yau threefolds for a given diffeomorhpic type if $b_2 =1$.
And it is said that this is ...
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The closure of the space of Riemannian metrics with a fixed isometry class
Let $M$ be a closed manifold, and let $\mathscr{M}$ be the space of all Riemannian metrics over $M$. It is known that this is a Fréchet manifold. Consider also $\mathscr{D}$ the diffeomorphisms group ...
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Harmonic functions on complete Riemannian manifolds
I have started reading a paper of Colding and Minicozzi, where they prove that on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ of non-negative Ricci curvature, the space of harmonic functions of growth order at ...
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Poincare's argument for maximizing the Coulomb energy
For $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ a region with $|\Omega| = |B_1|$, let
$$
C(\Omega) = \int_\Omega\int_\Omega \frac{dxdy}{|x-y|}
$$
denote the Coulomb (or gravitational, etc) energy.
Poincaré is ...
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Reverse Toponogov triangle comparison
See the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponogov%27s_theorem
One consequence of the Toponogov comparison Theorem is that if the sectional curvature of a manifold $M$ is pinched below by a ...
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$C^k$ one-parameter family of metrics
Consider a smooth Riemannian manifold $M$ and a $C^k$ one-parameter family of Riemannian metrics $g_t$ on $M$. Here $k$ could be any integer, $k$ could be infinity, when the one-parameter family $g_t$ ...
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Orbifolds are Thom-Mather stratified spaces
Where can I find a proof of (or if it is even true) that an (effective) orbifold is a Thom-Mather stratified space?
edit: after some search, I found the proof should be contained in either
GIBSON, C....
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Known size invariant for Riemannian manifolds?
Larry Guth in his 2010 ICM address mentions the notion of a size invariant of Riemannian
metrics on a smooth manifold $M$. These are functions $S: Metrics(M) \to \mathbb{R}$ that are invariant under ...
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Estimates on the Green function of an elliptic second order differential operator.
Let $D$ be a linear differential elliptic operator of second order
with infinitely smooth coefficients acting on real valued functions
on a compact manifold $M$. Let us assume that $D$ has no free ...
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Multidimensional gluing theorem for Riemannian manifolds
I would like to understand whether the following multidimensional (partial) generalization of the A.D. Alexandrov gluing theorem is true and, if yes, whether there is a reference.
(The original ...
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The rain hull and the rain ridge
Rain falls steadily on an island, a 2-manifold $M$, which you may
assume, as you prefer,
is: (a) smooth, or (b) a PL-manifold, or perhaps even
(c) a
triangulated irregular network (TIN).
After a time,...
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Existence of properly discontinuous and cocompact action
Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. My question is, under what conditions does $M$ admit a discrete group of isometries $\Gamma$ which acts properly discontinuously and cocompactly on $M$, that ...
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Linearization of hamiltonian torus action
Let $(M,\omega)$ be a symplectic manifold with a hamiltonian effective torus action. Suppose it has an isolated fixed point $p$. Is it true that there exists an invariant neighborhood $U$ of $p$ such ...
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Classification of compact globally symmetric spaces
It is known that any connected compact Lie group $G$ is a finite quotient of the product of a compact simply connected semisimple Lie group $\tilde{G}$ and a torus $\mathbb{T}^n$ (see for example ...
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Avoiding mean-curvature flow dumbbell neck-pinch by inflating a surface
It is well known that
Grayson's dumbbell neck-pinch1,2 separates
into disconnected pieces under
mean curvature flow:
Image ...
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References on "not-quite" Finsler geometry?
In typical studies of Finsler geometry, the metric function $F: TM \to [0,\infty)$ is assumed to be smooth away from the zero section, and $F$ is assume to be sufficiently convex. Under these ...
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Short examples that are/are not quantum-ergodic
Are there any considerably short examples of manifolds that are/aren't quantum ergodic, or quantum unique ergodic?
Note that a (compact) Riemannian manifold is said to be quantum ergodic if almost ...
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Connections and curvature in commutative algebra
Since on any commutative algebra $R$ over ring $S$ we have module of Kahler differentials $(\Omega_{R/S},d)$ which extends to the algebraic de-Rham complex $(\Omega^\bullet,d),$ it is natural to ...
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Ricci flow and isometry group
It is known (via Kotschwar's uniqueness of backwards Ricci flows) that the isometry group of a Riemannian metric remains unchanged under the Ricci flow. But, one can easily observe that it can change ...
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How does curvature change under perturbations of a Riemannian metric?
Let $M$ be a compact subset of $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary, and let $g$ be a Riemannian metric on $M$. If $g'$ is another Riemannian metric which is "close" to $g$, then they should have ...
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$E$ is a holomorphic vector bundle if and only if there is a Dolbeault operator $\bar{\partial}_E$
I am looking for a reference which shows that the following statements are equivalent for a complex vector bundle $E$:
$E$ is a holomorphic vector bundle.
There is a Dolbeault operator $\bar{\partial}...
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Is every metric uniformly close to a metric with negative scalar curvature?
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold with non-empty boundary.
Let $g$ be a smooth Riemannian metric on $M$. Is the following true?
For every $\epsilon >0$ there exist a Riemannian metric $g_{\epsilon}$ ...
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Developable 3-manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^4$
Is there a classification of the equivalent of a "developable surface" in $\mathbb{R}^4$?
Analogous to: planes, cylinders, cones, and tangent developables in $\mathbb{R}^3$?
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Levy-Gromov Isoperimetric Inequality
In his paper "Paul Levy's Isoperimetric Inequality", Gromov gives the following isoperimetric inequality:
Let $V$ be a closed $(n+1)$-dimensional Riemannian Manifold with $\mathrm{Ric}(V) \geq n \...
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Furthest distance half the diameter?
Let $S$ be the surface of a convex body, polyhedral or smooth,
embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
For a point $x \in S$, let $F(x)$ be the set of furthest points
from $x$, measured by shortest paths on the ...
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Motivations for the study of dual connections
I am intrigued by the notion of dual connections: two affine connections $\nabla$ and $\nabla^*$ are called dual if they satisfy $$X(g(Y,Z))=g(\nabla_XY,Z)+g(Y,\nabla^*_XZ)$$
for a given (pseudo)-...
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References for the moduli space of complex structures
I am looking for references where the moduli space of complex structures on a complex manifold is well explained: in particular the infinitesimal deformations, the obstructions, the elliptic complex ...
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A geometric characterization of smooth points of a complex algebraic variety
Let $X^m\subset \mathbb{C}^n$ be an irreducible $m$-dimensional complex algebraic subvariety. Let $\mathbb{C}^n$ be equipped with the standard Hermitian metric.
Fix an arbitrary point $p\in X$. Let $...
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Affine structures
I would like to study manifolds endowed with a linear connexion $\nabla$ which is torsion free and locally flat i.e. its curvature is $0$ (such a connexion is called flat if in addition, its holonomy ...
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Morse lemma with least amount of regularity.
I recently came across with $C^2$ Morse functions in my work and as I was reviewing some of the stuff I learned about Morse theory, I noticed that all the proofs of the Morse lemma I could come across ...
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Kahler manifolds with constant bisectional curvature
It is well known that the universal covering of a complete Kahler manifold with constant bisectional curvature is $\mathbb{C}^n$, $\mathbb{B}^n$ or $\mathbb{CP}^n$. I need original paper(s) that prove ...
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Reference request: $\operatorname{Sym}^2_0(T^*M) \simeq \Lambda_- \otimes \Lambda_+$
I am looking for proof of the "well-known" result that for a $4$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$, we have an isomorphism
$$
\operatorname{Sym}^2_0(T^*M) \simeq \Lambda_- \otimes \...
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Why is the length spectrum called a spectrum?
Given a hyperbolic surface $X$, one considers the multiset of lengths of closed primitive geodesics. This multiset is called the length spectrum $\mathcal{L}(X)$.
Question: is $\mathcal{L}(X)$ a ...
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Hypersurfaces orthogonal to a cone
This question is somewhat related to Differential inclusions for distributions but I am asking for something rather more specific, so I hope it is alright to leave this as a separate, new question.
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Conformal Killing fields satisfy a third order PDE
Let $(M,g)$ be a $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with smooth metric $g$.
Proposition 3.2 in the paper "The Boost Problem in General Relativity" by O'Murchadha and Chistodoulou claims ...
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Smoothness of coordinates in the rectification theorem for ODE
The rectification theorem says that near a regular point every vector field $v$ is standard, that is, there exists a local coordinate system such that $v=\frac{\partial }{\partial x_1}$.
In the ...
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Shortest paths on linked tori
I will make this question specific at first, and general later.
Suppose we have two linked tori, $T_1$ and $T_2$,
each of radii $(2,1)$, meaning that each torus is the result of sweeping
a circle of ...
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Nash embedding theorem for manifolds with boundary
A celebrated theorem of Nash is that every $C^k$ ($k\geq 3$) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ can be isometrically embedded into some Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ for some $d\in \mathbb{N}$. However, I ...
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How does the kernel of the map $\Omega^{\bullet}(X)\rightarrow \Omega^{\bullet}(G\times X)$ relate to equivariant cohomology?
This question may be trivial for experts. Consider a (compact, connected) smooth manifold $X$ and a (compact connected) Lie group $G$ act on $X$. Then we have the action map
$$
\mu: G\times X\...
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Fundamental groups of compact manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature.
I would like to find an appropriate reference for the following statement:
Statement. Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature.
Then $\pi_1(M)$ is virtually abelian.
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Associated vector bundles of infinite rank and induced connections
Let $\mathbb{V}$ be a representation of a Lie group $G$ and let $P \to M$ be a principal $G$-bundle with a principal connection. If $\mathbb{V}$ is finite-dimensional, then one can associate to this ...
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Theory of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as level sets
Is there a book that treats the classical theory of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ from the point of view of level sets of a function? I seem to remember someone telling me that such a book exists, but I ...
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Differential forms along the fiber
Let $E \to M$ be a smooth fiber bundle. Instead of differential forms defined on the whole tangent bundle $TE$ one could also consider forms on the vertical tangent bundle $VE$, i.e. forms defined on ...
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Open problems about CMC hypersurfaces with symmetries?
Recently, Andrews and Li announced a complete classification of CMC ($H=const.$) tori in $S^3$, confirming a conjecture of Pinkall and Sterling. Their main result is that any such torus is ...
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A book on Banach Manifold for a Dynamicist
Hi all,
Could you give me a suggestion of suitable book about Banach Manifolds for someone that have background in functional analysis at the level of Conway's book and Do Carmo's book on Riemannian ...
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What is a Whitney Jet?
I'm currently reading Michor, Manifold of Mappings for Continuum Mechanics. In this paper he makes use of 'Whitney Jets' but takes it to be an already understood concept. I'm familiar with jets but ...
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What would be a good introductory reference for learning jet-bundle theory?
I am interested in learning the theory of Jet bundles, and am aware of the standard reference "The geometry of jet bundles" by D. J. Saunders. However this appears to be a detailed book, ...
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Rolling a convex body: Geodesics vs. rolling curves
What are the curves of contact on a convex body $B$ rolling down an inclined plane?
Assume $B$ is smooth, and there is sufficient friction to prevent slippage.
Certainly, one can develop a geodesic ...
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