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Stability of the geodesic flow for the energy

Eric Boeckx, José Carmelo González-Dávila, Lieven Vanhecke (2002)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We study the stability of the geodesic flow ξ as a critical point for the energy functional when the base space is a compact orientable quotient of a two-point homogeneous space.

Stable norms of non-orientable surfaces

Florent Balacheff, Daniel Massart (2008)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We study the stable norm on the first homology of a closed non-orientable surface equipped with a Riemannian metric. We prove that in every conformal class there exists a metric whose stable norm is polyhedral. Furthermore the stable norm is never strictly convex if the first Betti number of the surface is greater than two.

Subtleties concerning conformal tractor bundles

C. Graham, Travis Willse (2012)

Open Mathematics

The realization of tractor bundles as associated bundles in conformal geometry is studied. It is shown that different natural choices of principal bundle with normal Cartan connection corresponding to a given conformal manifold can give rise to topologically distinct associated tractor bundles for the same inducing representation. Consequences for homogeneous models and conformal holonomy are described. A careful presentation is made of background material concerning standard tractor bundles and...

Sufficient conditions for convexity in manifolds without focal points

M. Beltagy (1993)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

In this paper, local, global, strongly local and strongly global supportings of subsets in a complete simply connected smooth Riemannian manifold without focal points are defined. Sufficient conditions for convexity of subsets in the same sort of manifolds have been derived in terms of the above mentioned types of supportings.

Suites de flots de Ricci en dimension 3 et applications

Thomas Richard (2009/2010)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

Dans cet article, on passe en revue certains résultats dus à Miles Simon sur le flot de Ricci de certains espaces métriques de dimension 3 exposés dans [28] et [26].On commence par voir le lien entre théorèmes de rigidité et convergence des variétés sur un exemple dû à Berger et Durumeric. On remarque ensuite que pour obtenir de tels théorèmes de rigidité en utilisant le flot de Ricci, il faut être capable de construire le flot pour des espaces peu lisses.Les deux dernières partie sont consacrées...

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