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Riemannian Geometry is a subfield of Differential Geometry, which specifically studies "Riemannian Manifolds", manifolds with "Riemannian Metrics", which means that they are equipped with continuous inner products.

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About "residual" scalar curvature in Einstein warped product manifold

I have an Einstein warped product manifold $M=B \times_f F$ with warped metric $g=g^B+f^2g^F$, where $F$ is Ricci flat, then its scalar curvature is $S^F=0$. It is well known that the scalar curvature ...
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Domain of spectral fractional Laplacian

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete Riemannian manifold with Laplacian $\Delta:C^{\infty}_{c}(M)\to C^{\infty}_{c}(M)$ (think of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ if you wish). This operator is essentially self-adjoint in $L^{2}...
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Finite subgroups of $\mathrm{O}_n(\mathbb R)$ from finite subgroups of $\mathrm{SO}_n(\mathbb R)$

Let $G$ be a finite subgroup of $\mathrm{SO}_n(\mathbb R)$. We also assume $G$ to be "maximal" in the sense that for every $g\in\mathrm{SO}_n(\mathbb R)\setminus G$, we have that $\overline{\...
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Moser iteration in dimension $6$

Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $6$. We have a function $f\geq 0$ on $M$ satisfying \begin{align*} \Delta f \leq gf-\frac{3}{4}f^2 \end{align*} Where $g$ is another smooth ...
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Foliation of spaces

It turns out that a very important idea to derive properties for a bigger space is to try to foliate the space, derive the same property for each leaf and patch everything up to get the desired ...
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Sufficient condition for existence of a closest-point projection from a neighborhood onto a subset of a Riemannian manifold

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold and let $N$ be a subset of $M$. On one hand, it is well known that if $N$ is an embedded submanifold of $M$, then it admits a tubular neighborhood, and, ...
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Calculating the principal curvature of the geodesic sphere of radius $r$ in the space of dimension $n$ and of constant sectional curvature $c$

I'm reading "Riemannian Geometry" by Manfredo P. do Carmo and I'm trying to calculate the principal curvature of the geodesic sphere of radius $r$ in the space of dimension $n$ and of ...
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Volume comparison with integral curvature bounds which gives lower bound on volume on Riemannian manifold

In Riemannian geometry, the Bishop-Gromov theorem states that for an $n$-dimensional manifold $M$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature $Rc\geq 0$, then the volume quotient $$ \frac{\text{Vol} B(x,r)}{\...
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Self-adjointness of fractional laplacian

Lets consider the following functional analytic definition of the fractional Laplacian: Consider a (complete, connected, oriented) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with corresponding Laplacian $\Delta_{g}$....
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What does $\nabla^i f$ mean?

I am reading the article Some Geometric Calculations on Wasserstein Spaces of John Lott and there is this covariant index in the covariant derivative: $\nabla^i$. And I don't quite understand it. In ...
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A specific question in $G_2$ geometry

Let's take a closed $G_2$ manifold $(M,\Phi)$. $\Phi$ denoting the three-form which defines the $G_2$ structure on $M$. Let's take a closed two form $\theta\in\Omega^2(M).$ Is \begin{align} d(\theta_{\...
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Gradient descent under the presence of symmetries

Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold (I'm happy to assume it is Euclidean space) with a function $f: M \to \mathbb R$ and a group of isometries $G$ acting on $M$ and preserving $f$, i.e., $f(gm) = f(m)$ ...
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An identity for the higher form Levi-Civita connection

Take $M$ a Riemannian manifold and $\Lambda^1$ its space of one forms. The LCC (Levi-Civita connection) $\nabla:\Lambda^1 \to \Lambda^1 \otimes \Lambda^1$ is well known to satisfy the identity $m \...
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When is the Chern integral given by the norm of the curvature tensor?

I saw somewhere that for a Kahler manifold that admits a Kahler-Einstein metric the following integral formula is true. $$\int_M c_2 \wedge \omega^{n-2} = \frac{1}{n(n-1)}\int |Rm|^2 \omega^n$$ It ...
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Understand Riemannian cross-derivative on product manifolds

Suppose we have a smooth function $f:\mathcal{M}\times\mathcal{N}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ where the domain is a product of two Riemannian manifolds. The Riemannian cross-derivative ([1], section 2) is ...
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What does $g_x^{-1}$ mean where $g$ is a Riemannian metric?

I am reading this paper about the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao distance and they define the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao distance on a manifold as follows (page 9): Here, $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold, $\...
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A (possible) Lie algebra extension of the Lie algebra of a foliation

Motivation: The aim of this post is to extend the Lie algebra of a foliation to a bigger Lie algebra. We assume that a manifold $M$ is foliated by compat leaves. The Lie algebra of the foliation is ...
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How to construct a $C^1$ variation of the unique, minimal geodesic at its first conjugate point

Motivation for the question: This is a question that I encountered when reading Proposition 1.8 of the paper "Optimal transport and curvature" by Alessio Figalli and Cedric Villani, whose ...
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Dynamical obstruction for a vector field to have a Harmonic divergence

Let $(M,g)$ be an analytic Riemannian manifold and $X$ be an analytic vector field on $M$. Can we always have a volume form $\Omega$ such that $\operatorname{Div}_{\Omega} X$ is a harmonic ...
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Existence of adjoint operators on manifolds

Let $(M,g)$ be an oriented Riemannian manifold and $V$ a finite-rank vector bundle equipped with a non-degenerate bundle metric $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_{V}$. This bundle metric, in turn, gives rise ...
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Lee-Parker Yamabe problem proposition 4.6

I believe there may be a gap towards the end of the proof of proposition 4.6 in the Bulletin of the AMS paper The Yamabe Problem by Lee and Parker : https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-...
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Is the vector field associated with an element of the boundary at infinity on a Hadamard manifold smooth?

A Hadamard manifold $M$ (complete, simply connected, non-positive sectional curvature) has a so-called boundary at infinity $\partial M$ whose elements are equivalence classes of unit-speed geodesic ...
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Size of conformal factor under uniformisation

Consider closed orientable surfaces whose metrics are hyperbolic (i.e., $K=-1$) except in a region which is a hemisphere of a unit sphere attached to the hyperbolic region along a closed geodesic (of ...
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Almost Riemannian foliation

A Foliation $\mathcal{F}$ on a Riemannian manifold is called almost Riemannian foliation if $$\forall \epsilon >0 \quad \exists \delta >0 $$ such that for every leaf $L$ and every geodesic $...
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Analogous results in geometric group theory and Riemannian geometry?

As you can see from my other question I concern mmyself with the following article at the moment: Koji Fujiwara, Zlil Sela, The rates of growth in a hyperbolic group, Invent. math. 233 (2023) pp 1427–...
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Affine manifold and topology

I consider an affine manifold $(M,\nabla)$, i.e. $\nabla$ is flat and torsion-free, such that: $M$ is diffeomorphic to $\mathbb R\times\Sigma$ with $\Sigma$ a closed 3-manifold. There exists a ...
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Showing a mean-curvature related function decreases on the level sets of a function with non zero gradient

I have an $n$-dimensional complete, non compact Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ that satisfies $Ric_g \ge 0$, a bounded open domain $\Omega \subset M$ and a smooth function $u$ defined on $M$ such that, ...
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Convergence of spectrum

Let $M$ be a compact manifold and $g_k$ be a sequence of Riemannain metrics smoothly converging to another Riemannian metric $g$. Let $\{\lambda^k_j\}$ be the spectrum of the Laplacian of the ...
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Why is this subset associated to a $2$-tensor dense?

Let $S$ be a symmetric $(0, 2)$ tensor on a Riemannian manifold $M$. Define $E_S : M \to \mathbb{Z}$ by $E_S(x) = \left(\text{the number of distinct eigenvalues of } S_x\right)$. I've seen the ...
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Geometric interpretation for a connection whose corresponding distribution generates the whole Lie algebras of vector fields

Let we have a connection on a manifold $M$ so it is considered as a distribution on the tangent bundle $TM$ of $M$. The integrability of this distrbution is equivalent to flatness of the connection. ...
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Questions on the differential of the Lie logarithm

Let $G$ be a Lie group. Recall the Lie logarithm is well-defined about a neighborhood $U \subset G$ of the identity: $\log:U\to \mathfrak{g}$. I am dealing with a research problem that concerns the ...
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Extension of a local isometry to the tangent bundle with Sasaki metric and completeness

Let $f\colon (M, g)\to (N,h)$ be a local isometry between two $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Consider the Sasaki metrics $g_S$ and $h_S$ on the tangent bundles $TM$ and $TN$, ...
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Alexandrov-Fenchel theorem for Riemannian manifolds [closed]

Let $E,M$ be two convex subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Then the Alexandrov-Fenchel theorem states that the coefficients $V_j(E,M)$ in $$\operatorname{Vol}(xE+yM)=\sum_j {n\choose j} V_j(E,M)x^{n-j}y^j$$ ...
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A higher-dimensional "line of curvature"?

Let $M$ be a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold $Q$, and let $\Gamma$ be a $d$-dimensional submanifold of $M$, i.e., $\Gamma^{d} \subset M \subset Q$. Suppose that, for all (unit) normal vectors of $...
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Geometric properties of the unique solution of an elliptic BVP involving the Lie derivative of the metric by a vector field

Setting Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary, and let $\nabla$ be its associated Levi-Civita connection. Consider the following formally self-adjoint, second order linear ...
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Infimum of the normalized Laplacian eigenvalues

Let $(M^n,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. The spectrum of the Laplacian operator $\Delta_g = -\operatorname{div} \nabla$ consists of an increasing and diverging sequence of positive eigenvalues: ...
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(Reference request) higher order Hölder spaces on riemannian manifolds

I am looking for a reference regarding the higher (than the first) order Hölder spaces on Riemannian manifolds. I am aware that defining Hölder spaces of form $C^{0,\alpha}$ is not an issue even ...
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Parametrization of $k$-ruled submanifold: can we choose the base to be orthogonal to the rulings?

A smooth $m$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ is said to be $k$-ruled if it is foliated by $k$-dimensional planes, called rulings. Let $M$ be a $k$-ruled submanifold. Then $M$ can be ...
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Decomposition of forms on a Spin$(7)$ manifold

Let's take a $G_2$ manifold $(M,\Phi)$, then we get a Spin$(7)$ manifold by taking $(M\times\mathbb{R},\Psi:=\Phi\wedge dt+*_M\Phi),$ where $t$ is the coordinate in the $\mathbb{R}$-direction. $\Phi\...
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Curvature tensor of interpolation of two metrics

Let $\hat{g}$ and $\bar{g}$ be two smooth Riemannian metrics defined, say, on $\mathbb{R}^n.$ Consider a smooth function $\xi$ that acts as an interpolation function between the two metrics above on ...
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Compute distance between geodesics and perturbed geodesics on a Riemannian manifold via Jacobi field $\vert J \vert$

I would like to pose a question regarding the distance between a geodesic $\gamma(t)$ and a perturbed geodesic $\gamma_{\epsilon}(t)$ on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, is the distance controlled ...
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Reference request: $ \psi(x) - \frac{1}{2} \| \nabla \psi(x) \|^2 = c(x) $

I have a Riemannian manifold $M$ of dimension 2 on which I am considering the following equation: $$ \psi(x) - \frac{1}{2} \| \nabla \psi(x) \|^2 = c(x) $$ on some patch $U$ of the manifold which is &...
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A Lie group whose Lie algebra is the (Lie algebra?) of all functions with fibrewise polynomial growth

Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold. We denote by $\mathfrak{g}$ the space of all smooth function $f:TM\to \mathbb{R}$ with fibre wise polynomial growth. Is it a Lie algebra wrt the Poisson bracket ...
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Obstruction for a manifold to admit a periodic Ricci flow

Let M be a (compact) smooth manifold. What kind of obstruction exist for M to admit a metric whose Ricci flow is a t-periodic flow?
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Reference: parallel transport in the hyperboloid model

I'm reading the documentation of this package: Manopt, and they claim that in the hyperboloid model for $\mathbb{H}^d$ the parallel transport between tangent spaces $T_x$ and $T_y$ is given for any $u\...
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Relationship between the Fisher distance and Kulback Leibler divergence

I am reading the 2017 book "Information geometry" by Ay, Jost, Lê, Schwachhöfer. The Fisher distance is given by $$ d^F(\mu, \nu) := \inf_{\gamma} L(\gamma) $$ for curves $\gamma:[0,1]\to P$ ...
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Obtaining metric and compatible differential equations on codimension one foliation of $n$-cube

Essentially the same content as this post on Math stack exchange: https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4741835/460999. I don't expect an answer there and after waiting a few days I've decided to post here....
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Tangent cones at infinity and the regularity of minimal submanifolds

In the famous paper by D. Fischer-Colbrie "Some rigidity theorems for minimal submanifolds of the sphere", the very first sentence reads: It is well known that the regularity of minimal ...
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Conformal maps between two given domains

Consider two domains $$ \begin{aligned} D_1&=\{x=(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)\in\mathbb{R}^n:x_n\leq 0\},\\ D_2&=\{x=(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)\in\mathbb{R}^n:x_n\leq \psi(x_1,x_2,...,x_{n-1})\}, \end{aligned} $$ ...
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Invariants associated to a principal bundle whose total space is a symplectic manifold acted symplectically by group structure

The following question - proposal came to my mind about 4 years ago but I did not find any solution to this question and did not find any answer via e-personal comunication with some ...
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