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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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Clarifying a result of Klingenberg

I am looking for some clarification on a result of Klingenberg. For context, I have a complete Riemannian manifold for which I would like to compute a lower bound on the injectivity radius at each ...
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Difference between parallel transport and ambient projection

Consider a $d$-dimensional complete embedded Riemannian submanifold $(M,g)$ of a Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^D$ (The major examples we consider are sphere and Stiefel manifold). Assume the sectional ...
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What integral formula is being used here?

I am trying to read the paper "Simple closed geodesics on convex surfaces" by E.Calabi and J. Cao and a certain passage is unclear for me. Before, let me contextualize and set up some ...
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Intersection Grassmanian planes

I am reading a paper that used Grassmanian planes properties. In particular, they studied the intersection of Grassmanian planes; they check the intersection Grassmanian of $n-k$-planes and ...
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What 'large' surfaces are there?

I answered this question on "is there a longest geodesic" by a kind of a joke, which I couldn't resist: the long line! Simply going by the name it had to be the 'longest geodesic'! I didn't ...
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$\ell_p$ geodesic distance on smooth Riemannian manifold and Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities

Bear with me, I'm not a professional geometer. Recently, I've been studying Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities (LSI) for probability distributions on manifolds (e.g as done in works of Bobkvo et al. ...