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Vector Fields in a Riemannian Manifold
Suppose $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold.
Is there a way to classify manifolds where there exists a vector field that commutes with the laplace beltrami operator?
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Does there exist a notion of discrete riemannian metric on graph?
I would like to know if there is any notion of a discrete Riemannian metric on graphs. C. Mercat has worked on discrete Riemann Surfaces, but that's not exactly what I am working on.
To be more ...
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Heat flow, decay of the Fisher information, and $\lambda$-displacement convexity
In the whole post I will work in the flat torus $\mathbb T^d=\mathbb R^d/\mathbb Z^d$ and $\rho$ will stand for any probability measure $\mathcal P(\mathbb T^d)$. This question is strongly related to ...
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Manifold-Valued Sobolev Spaces
I have the following basic question about Sobolev-spaces which take their values in a
Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, i.e.
functions $u:\Omega \to M$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ bounded, such that ...
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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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Volume doubling, uniform Poincaré, counterexample
The Poincaré inequality and the volume doubling property are important notions related to heat kernel estimates.
Pavel Gyrya and Laurent Saloff-Coste obtain the two sided heat kernel estimate of ...
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The contractivity of the heat semigroup in $L^p$ spaces
Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold. By functional calculus, it is immediate to show that the heat semigroup is a contraction in $L^2(M)$. I can also show that it is a contraction in any $L^p(M)$ with $p ...
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The diversity of Riemannian metrics adapted to a given (1 dimensional) foliation, A Krein Millman view point
Let $X$ be a Kronecker vector field on the two dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^2$. Let $K$ be the space of all 1- forms $\alpha$ of class $C^1$ on $\mathbb{T}^2$ which satisfy $d\alpha=0,\;\alpha(X)=1$...
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Orthogonal complements in Hilbert bundles
It's a standard fact that for a finite-dimensional vector bundle with an inner product, the othogonal complement of any subbundle is itself a locally trivial vector bundle.
What is known about the ...
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Bounded functions dense in Sobolev Spaces
Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. Is it always true that the subspace $C^2_b(M)\cap W^{2,p}(M)$ is dense in $W^{2, p}(M)$, where $C^2_b(M)$ denotes the space of functions that are uniformly ...
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Harmonic coordinates on asymptotically flat manifold
I am studying the existence of harmonic coordinates at infinity on an asymptotically flat manifold. My Reference papers are, The Mass of Asymptotically Flat Manifold, by Bartnik [B] and The Yamabe ...
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The semigroup of Laplace-Beltrami operator on 3-flat torus
I am studying a recent paper in which the author worked on the rectangular, flat 3 tori. It can be realized, the author explained, as $\mathbb{R}^3 \over (L_1 \mathbb Z \times L_2 \mathbb Z \times L_3 ...
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