Homogeneity and Curvatures of Geodesic Spheres

We study some scalar curvature invariants on geodesic spheres and use them to characterize several kinds of Riemannian manifolds such as homogenous manifolds and in particular, the two-point homogeneous spaces and the Damek-Ricci spaces.     

On Hypersurfaces of Spheres with Two Principal Curvatures

In this paper we obtain a classification of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean sphere having two principal curvatures; for some of the results we impose that the sectional curvature (Ricci curvature, resp.) is non-negative Ricci.     

Geodesic Graphs with Constant Mean Curvature in Spheres

We study the existence and unicity of graphs with constant mean curvature in the Euclidean sphere of radius a. Given a compact domain , with some conditions, contained in a totally geodesic sphere S of and a real differentiable function on , we define the graph of in considering the height (x) on the minimizing geodesic joining the point x of to a fixed pole of . For a real number H such that |H| is bounded for a constant depending on the mean curvature of the boundary of and on a fixed number in (0,1), we prove that there exists a unique graph with constant mean curvature H and with boundary , whenever the diameter of is smaller than a constant depending on . If we have conditions on , that is, let be a graph over of a function, if |H| is bounded for a constant depending only on the mean curvature of and if the diameter of is smaller than a constant depending on H and , then we prove that there exists a unique graphs with mean curvature H and boundary . The existence of such a graphs is equivalent to assure the existence of the solution of a Dirichlet problem envolving a nonlinear elliptic operator.     

Stationary Curvatures of Two-Dimensional Totally Geodesic Submanifolds in the Grassmannian of Bivectors

An infinitesimal criterion indicating when a two-dimensional submanifold of a Riemannian symmetric space is totally geodesic is given. As an application, the classification of two-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds of the Grassmannian of bivectors is given in a new way, and it is proved that the sectional curvature takes stationary values on tangent spaces of such submanifolds. Bibliography: 9 titles.     

Asymptotic Behavior for Hitting Time of Large Geodesic Spheres by Brownian Motion

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Local Symmetry of Harmonic Spaces as Determined by The Spectra of Small Geodesic Spheres

We show that in any harmonic space, the eigenvalue spectra of the Laplace operator on small geodesic spheres around a given point determine the norm |?R|{{|nabla{R}|}} of the covariant derivative of the Riemannian curvature tensor in that point. In particular, the spectra of small geodesic spheres in a harmonic space determine whether the space is locally symmetric. For the proof we use the first few heat invariants and consider certain coefficients in the radial power series expansions of the curvature invariants |R|² and |Ric|² of the geodesic spheres. Moreover, we obtain analogous results for geodesic balls with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. We also comment on the relevance of these results to constructions of Z.I. Szabó.     

Covering Spheres with Spheres

Given a sphere of any radius r in an n-dimensional Euclidean space, we study the coverings of this sphere with solid spheres of radius one. Our goal is to design a covering of the lowest covering density, which defines the average number of solid spheres covering a point in a bigger sphere. For growing dimension n, we design a covering that gives the covering density of order (nln n)/2 for a sphere of any radius r>1 and a complete Euclidean space. This new upper bound reduces two times the order nln n established in the classic Rogers bound.     

Curvatures of homogeneous Randers spaces

We study curvatures of homogeneous Randers spaces. After deducing the coordinate-free formulas of the flag curvature and Ricci scalar of homogeneous Randers spaces, we give several applications. We first present a direct proof of the fact that a homogeneous Randers space is Ricci quadratic if and only if it is a Berwald space. We then prove that any left invariant Randers metric on a non-commutative nilpotent Lie group must have three flags whose flag curvature is positive, negative and zero, respectively. This generalizes a result of J.A. Wolf on Riemannian metrics. We prove a conjecture of J. Milnor on the characterization of central elements of a real Lie algebra, in a more generalized sense. Finally, we study homogeneous Finsler spaces of positive flag curvature and particularly prove that the only compact connected simply connected Lie group admitting a left invariant Finsler metric with positive flag curvature is SU(2)$\text{SU}\left(2\right)$.     

Curvatures of tangent hyperquadric bundles

We study geometry of tangent hyperquadric bundles over pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, which are equipped, as submanifolds of the tangent bundles, with the induced Sasaki metric. All kinds of curvatures are calculated, and geometric results concerning the Ricci curvature and the scalar curvature are proved. There exists a hyperquadric bundle whose scalar curvature is a preassigned constant.     

Geodesic subgraphs

Define a geodesic subgraph of a graph to be a subgraph H with the property that any geodesic of two points of H is in H. The trivial geodesic subgraphs are the complete graphs K_n' n ≧ 0, and G itself. We characterize all (finite, simple, connected) graphs with only the trivial geodesic subgraphs, and give an algorithm for their construction. We do this also for triangle-free graphs.     

Extreme Geodesic Graphs

For two vertices u and v of a graph G, the closed interval I[u, v] consists of u, v, and all vertices lying in some u–v geodesic of G, while for S V(G), the set I[S] is the union of all sets I[u, v] for u, v S. A set S of vertices of G for which I[S] = V(G) is a geodetic set for G, and the minimum cardinality of a geodetic set is the geodetic number g(G). A vertex v in G is an extreme vertex if the subgraph induced by its neighborhood is complete. The number of extreme vertices in G is its extreme order ex(G). A graph G is an extreme geodesic graph if g(G) = ex(G), that is, if every vertex lies on a u–v geodesic for some pair u, v of extreme vertices. It is shown that every pair a, b of integers with 0 a b is realizable as the extreme order and geodetic number, respectively, of some graph. For positive integers r, d, and k 2, it is shown that there exists an extreme geodesic graph G of radius r, diameter d, and geodetic number k. Also, for integers n, d, and k with 2 d > n, 2 k > n, and n – d – k + 1 0, there exists a connected extreme geodesic graph G of order n, diameter d, and geodetic number k. We show that every graph of order n with geodetic number n – 1 is an extreme geodesic graph. On the other hand, for every pair k, n of integers with 2 k n – 2, there exists a connected graph of order n with geodetic number k that is not an extreme geodesic graph.     

Riemannian and Sub-Riemannian Geodesic Flows

We show that the geodesic flows of a sub-Riemannian metric and that of a Riemannian extension commute if and only if the extended metric is parallel with respect to a certain connection. This result allows us to describe the sub-Riemannian geodesic flow on totally geodesic Riemannian foliations in terms of the Riemannian geodesic flow. Also, given a submersion \(\pi :M \rightarrow B\), we describe when the projections of a Riemannian and a sub-Riemannian geodesic flow in M coincide.     

Plane Curves and Geodesic Diffeomorphisms

In a pseudo-Riemannian manifold we can define anr-plane curve as a curve with vanishingr-th curvature. We show that every diffeomorphism that carriesr-plane curves intor-plane curves (for a fixedr) is a geodesic diffeomorphism, i.e. carries geodesics into geodesics.     

Geodesic transformations and harmonic spaces

We prove that a Riemannian manifold is harmonic if and only if there exists a divergence-preserving geodesic transformation with respect to each point which is not volume-preserving.     

Geodesic continued fractions and LLL

We discuss a proposal for a continued fraction-like algorithm to determine simultaneous rational approximations to d$d$ real numbers _α1,…,_αd${\alpha }_1,\dots ,{\alpha }_d$. It combines an algorithm of Hermite and Lagarias with ideas from LLL-reduction. We dynamically LLL-reduce a quadratic form with parameter t$t$ as t↓0$t\downarrow 0$. Suggestions in this direction have been made several times over in the literature, e.g. Chevallier (2013) [4] or Bosma and Smeets (2013) [2]. The new idea in this paper is that checking the LLL-conditions consists of solving linear equations in t$t$.     

Geodesic webs of hypersurfaces

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KAM and Geodesic Dynamics of Blackholes

In this paper we apply KAM theory and the Aubry-Mather theory for twist maps to the study of bound geodesic dynamics of a perturbed blackhole background. The general theories apply mainly to two observable phenomena:the photon shell(unstable bound spherical orbits) and the quasi-periodic oscillations(QPO). We prove that there is a gap structure in the photon shell that can be used to reveal information of the perturbation.