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Teichmüller space on non-orientable closed surfaces
It is known that any closed orientable surface of genus $g \geq 2$ admits a hyperbolic metric, and the Teichmüller space of such metrics has dimension $6g - 6$. I was wondering if there is a ...
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Reference for homogeneous spaces
I am a graduate student of differential geometry.
I would like to get an overview over the way, how results are usually obtained for homogeneous spaces by Lie algebraic methods. By definition a ...
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Reference request for structure equations
Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold and let $\lbrace e_1,...,e_n\rbrace$ be a locally frame field on $M$ and $\omega _1 ,...,\omega _n$ be the dual $1$-forms of it. If $\omega _{ij}$ be the ...
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Does a compact nonflat surface without conjugate points have ergodic geodesic flow?
I read this as a conjecture in the paper by Ballmann-Brin-Burns, titled "On Surfaces with No Conjugate points" JDG 25(249-273), 1987.
What is current status of this conjecture?
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Is a space with p-norm a Finsler manifold?
Suppose $\mathbb{R}^n$ is equipped with the p-norm $\left\Vert x \right\Vert_p$. Let $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$ and let $y$ be in a neighborhood of $x$. The distance between $x$ and $y$ can be defined as $\...
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Ricci flow preserves holonomy
Could someone please give me a reference where I can find a complete proof of the result Ricci flow preserves holonomy? Is there any way to prove that Ricci flow preserves Kahler condition without ...
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Alternative definitions of Sobolev spaces on non-compact Riemannian manifolds
SHORT VERSION: Does the Meyers-Serrin theorem hold on complete, non-compact Riemannian manifolds, i.e. $W^{k,p}(M) = H^{k,p}(M)$? My guess is that this holds for the special case $k=1$ (and all $p\geq ...
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First eigenvalue for strictly convex domains
Let $M^n$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, suppose 1). $Ric(M)\ge (n-1)$ and 2). the principle curvatures of the boundary is bounded from below by $h\ge 0$. Is there any results on the ...
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General Relativity and Differential Geometry intuitions of Second Bianchi Identity
In General Relativity, one uses the Riemann Tensor in its coordinate form $R_{abcd}$, and proves the Second Bianchi Identity-
$R_{abcd;e} + R_{abde;c} + R_{abec;d} = 0$
It is said that ...
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how to define the injectivity radius of manifolds with boundary?
For manifolds without boundary one defines the injectivity radius as the maximal radius where the exponential map is a diffeomorphism. One can then show that the injectivity radius is the maximum ...
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Is $\mathbb{P}T^*M$ a sub-Riemannian manifold if $M$ is Riemannian?
(this question is about a particular aspect of a previous question, which was not duly stressed)
Let $(M,g)$ a Riemannian $n$-dimensional manifold, and let
$$
\widetilde{M}:=\mathbb{P}T^*M
$$
be the $...
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On the complexification of a Riemannian manifold
Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold and $TM$ be its tangent bundle. If we suppose $TM\otimes\mathbb{C}$ is the complexification of $TM$ then how can we define a natural metric on the complex bundle $...
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Invariant Lagrangians of a connection and its derivatives: how do they look like?
Let
$$
L=L(\Gamma,\partial\Gamma,\ldots,\partial^n\Gamma)
$$
be a Lagrangian depending on a linear symmetric connection $\Gamma$ on the tangent space of a manifold $M$ together with its derivatives up ...
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Scattering in (pseudo-)Riemannian spaces
I will ask my question in a broad way, leaving a lot of freedom for answers.
Suppose that we have a (pseudo-)Riemannian space $(M,g)$ and we fix some ball-like domain $B \subset M$. Suppose you are ...
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Intuitive understanding of the mean curvature flow [closed]
I am trying to develop some intuition into the properties of mean curvature flow of a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. As an example, I am trying to understand what happens to a surface of revolution $S = (...
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Some questions on the nodal geometry of Dirac operators
Let me begin by quoting a well-known result of Christian Baer (see here). The result goes as follows:
Theorem (Baer): Consider a connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with Dirac bundle $S$ ...
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Heat kernel asymptotics for small distances
I heard a talk where the speaker said that on a Riemannian manifold, for small values of $\text{dist }(x, y)$, the heat kernel $p_t(x, y)$ satisfies
$$p_t(x, y) = \frac{1}{(4\pi t)^{n/2}}e^{-\frac{\...
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Obtaining Hessian of the embedding from an induced metric
Consider a hypersurface (not necessarily compact) smoothly embedded into $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that the Hessian is a positive definite bilinear form. Due to positivenes, Hessian can be taken as a metric ...
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Gaussian heat kernel bounds on Riemannian manifolds [duplicate]
I wish to know if we have Gaussian lower and upper bounds for the heat kernel,i.e. $$
t^{-n/2}e^{-\frac{\rho(x,y)^2}{C_1t}} \lesssim p_t(x,y) \lesssim t^{-n/2}e^{-\frac{\rho(x,y)^2}{C_2t}},
$$
on a ...
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Geometric characterization of martingales
Recently I've read a paraphrasing from Ito saying that he sometimes thinks of martingales as geodesics in a very large dimensional manifold.
My question is, is there any research studying this idea?
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The scope of correspondence principle in quantum chaos
My understanding of the so-called correspondence principle in quantum chaos, is that it is a connection between the behaviour of a classical Hamiltonian system (chaotic/completely integrable) and the ...
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A clarification regarding analytic perturbation of metrics and Laplacian
This question is in reference to the following Mathoverflow question and the accepted answer to it. It seems to me that it is taken for granted that if the metric $g_t$ perturbs real analytically in ...
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Prescribing an induced metric
We know that, if we have a surface $z=f(x,y)$ with Euclidean space being ambient manifold, the induced metric is as follows (in matrix form):
$$g=\begin{bmatrix}
1+\left ( \frac{\partial f(x,y)}{\...
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Compact surface with arbitrarily large eigenvalue
Consider a compact surface $M$ with genus $\gamma \geq 2$ and fix a positive real number $V$. Is it known whether it is possible to produce a metric $g$ on the surface $M$ such that $(M. g)$ has ...
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Distance between quadratic forms
In notes here http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/homes-www/gille/prenotes/lens.pdf on page $2$ a formulation of distance between two positive quadratic form $[q],[q']$ is given by
$$d([q],[q'])=\frac{\sup_{x\...
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Geometry of convex subsets in Alexandrov space/ Riemannian manifold
Let $X^n$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Alexandrov space with curvature bounded below (or a smooth Riemannian manifold, possibly with boundary). Let $U\subset X$ be an open dense subset with the ...
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Reference: Finsler Derivative?
On the wikipedia page "Generalizations of derivative" the author mentions: " in Finsler geometry, one studies spaces which look locally like Banach spaces. Thus one might want a derivative with some ...
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Multiplicity of Laplace eigenvalues
Disclaimer: This is a very heuristic question and I will be satisfied with heuristic insights, if rigorous and precise answers are not possible.
All the examples of closed surfaces (or higher ...
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Isometry group of a compact hyperbolic surface
Consider a compact surface $M$ of genus $g \geq 2$ with a metric of constant negative curvature. My question is, is it known under what sorts of sufficient conditions such a metric will have non-...
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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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List of generic properties of Riemannian metrics
I am highly interested in compiling a list of generic properties of Riemannian metrics on a (may be compact) manifold in general, or under "relatively broad" assumptions, like generic properties of ...
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Laplacian Spectra on Nearly Nodal Riemann Surfaces
Consider a family of complex curves ${\mathcal C} \to {\mathbb D}$ such that the central fibre is a nodal Riemann surface while other fibres are smooth Riemann surfaces. We choose a family of ...
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Mean value operator on Riemannian manifold
Let $(M,g)$ a Riemannian manifold. Further $M$ should be a harmonic space, that is $M$ is a symmetric and simply connected space of rank 1. (Example: Spheres $S^n$)
Consider the mean value operator, ...
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Convergence of Riemannian metrics spectra
Consider a one-parameter real analytic family of metrics $g_t$ on a compact manifold $M$ converging to a metric $g$ in $C^k$-norm, for some $k$. It is known that the Laplace spectrum of $g_t$ will ...
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A question on a result of Colin de Verdière
Consider a compact connected surface $M$ of some genus $\gamma \geq 2$. A particular case of a famous result of Colin de Verdière (see Construction de laplaciens dont une partie finie du spectre est ...
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Faster (than normal) convergence of the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces
Consider a compact surface $M$ of genus $\gamma > 1$ (I am using the more usual letter "$g$" to denote metric), and the normalized Ricci flow on it. It is known that at time $t$, the scalar ...
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Is there a canonical split signature metric on $\mathbb{P}^n\times\mathbb{P}^{n\,\ast}$?
Let
$$
M:=\{(P,\pi)\mid P\not\in\pi\}\subset\mathbb{P}^n\times\mathbb{P}^{n\,\ast}
$$
be the open and dense (and as such $2n$-dimensional) subset of non-incident point-hyperplane pairs. If $P=\mathbb{...
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Compact surfaces with arbitrary gaps in spectrum
Consider a sequence of positive numbers $a_n$. My question is, can we select a closed Riemann surface whose spectrum $\lambda_i$ satisfies the condition that $\lambda_{i + 1} - \lambda_i > a_i$? Of ...
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Comparing spectra of Laplacian and Schrödinger operator
Let $M$ be a closed (compact without boundary) Riemannian manifold. Is there a body of results that compares the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator with that of Schrödinger operators $-\...
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Norm on space of metrics
I recently heard a differential geometry talk where the speaker constructed a one-parameter family of metrics $g(t)$ on a smooth manifold and said that $g(t)$ is real analytic in the Banach space $BC(...
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Is a manifold generically real analytic (with generic real analytic metric)?
I have heard it said in some differential geometry talks that "the generic situation in such and such case is real analytic". My question is, is the generic smooth manifold also real analytic in some ...
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Spectral geometry: asymptotic sequences of subspaces of $L^2(M)$ and the geometry of $M$
Consider a closed connected Riemannian manifold $M$, together with the associated Hilbert space $L^2(M)$ defined with respect to the Riemannian volume density. Let $-\Delta$ be the positive Laplacian $...
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Can the conformal structure on the projective light-cone detect hyperplane sections?
Let $(V,\langle\,\cdot\,,\,\cdot\,\rangle)$ be an $(n+1)$-dimensional real vector space, equipped with a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form of indefinite signature, and denote by $\nu(v):=\langle v,...
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$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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Long time existence of Ricci flow on compact surfaces of negative curvature
Is there a long time existence for the Ricci flow on compact negatively curved surfaces? I just read that the normalized Ricci flow has a long time solution converging to a metric of constant negative ...
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Green's function on sphere
Consider radial (normal) coordinates on a sphere $S^n, n \geq 2$. Let the "origin" be the north pole $(0, 0,..., 1)$ and the coordinates be denoted by $(r, \theta)$. We know that the Laplacian $\...
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Set of regular points in an Alexandrov space with curvature bounded below
Let $X^n$ be an $n$-dimensional Alexandrov space with curvature bounded below. A point $x\in X$ is called regular if the space of directions $\Sigma_x$ is isometric to the standard sphere $S^{n-1}$.
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Advanced Differential Geometry Textbook
I tried this post on StackExchange with no luck. Hopefully the experts at MathOverflow can help.
In algebraic topology there are two canonical "advanced" textbooks that go quite far beyond the usual ...
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Doubling theorem for Alexandrov spaces
Is there a user friendly exposition of the notion of boundary of an Alexandrov space with curvature bounded from below and of the Doubling theorem?
The only reference I am aware of is the original ...
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What does it mean that the Hessian is proportional to the metric?
Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth manifold equipped with a metric tensor $g$, and $f\in C^\infty(M)$ a regular function (i.e., with nowhere vanishing differential).
Denote by $\mathrm{Hess}_g(f):=\nabla df$ ...
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