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Geodesics in the TPS Space

  • Valerio Varano,
  • Stefano Gabriele,
  • Franco Milicchio,
  • Stefan Shlager,
  • Ian Dryden and
  • Paolo Piras

In shape analysis, the interpolation of shapes’ trajectories is often performed by means of geodesics in an appropriate Riemannian Shape Space. Over the past several decades, different metrics and shape spaces have been proposed, including Kend...

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1 Citations
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5 Pages

1 July 2019

The existence of a homogeneous geodesic in homogeneous Finsler manifolds was positively answered in previous papers. However, the result is not optimal. In the present paper, this result is refined and the existence of at least two homogeneous geodes...

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2 Citations
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9 Pages

19 September 2021

The classical uncertainty principle inequalities are imposed over the general relativity geodesic equation as a mathematical constraint. In this way, the uncertainty principle is reformulated in terms of proper space–time length element, Planck lengt...

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5 Citations
3,026 Views
8 Pages

Circular Geodesics Stability in a Static Black Hole in New Massive Gravity

  • Andrés Aceña,
  • Ericson López and
  • Franklin Aldás

14 February 2020

We study the existence and stability of circular geodesics in a family of asymptotically AdS static black holes in New Massive Gravity theory. We show that the mathematical sign of the hair parameter determines the existence of such geodesics. For a...

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15 Citations
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22 Pages

Geodesics for the Painlevé–Gullstrand Form of Lense–Thirring Spacetime

  • Joshua Baines,
  • Thomas Berry,
  • Alex Simpson and
  • Matt Visser

10 February 2022

Recently, the current authors have formulated and extensively explored a rather novel Painlevé–Gullstrand variant of the slow-rotation Lense–Thirring spacetime, a variant which has particularly elegant features—including unit...

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9 Citations
7,055 Views
42 Pages

13 January 2015

Information geometric optimization (IGO) is a general framework for stochastic optimization problems aiming at limiting the influence of arbitrary parametrization choices: the initial problem is transformed into the optimization of a smooth function...

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2 Citations
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21 Pages

21 November 2022

We consider the problem of finding the closest multivariate Gaussian distribution on a constraint surface of all Gaussian distributions to a given distribution. Previous research regarding geodesics on the multivariate Gaussian manifold has focused o...

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2 Citations
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17 Pages

Quasi-Isometric Mesh Parameterization Using Heat-Based Geodesics and Poisson Surface Fills

  • Daniel Mejia-Parra,
  • Jairo R. Sánchez,
  • Jorge Posada,
  • Oscar Ruiz-Salguero and
  • Carlos Cadavid

17 August 2019

In the context of CAD, CAM, CAE, and reverse engineering, the problem of mesh parameterization is a central process. Mesh parameterization implies the computation of a bijective map ϕ from the original mesh M ∈ R 3 to the planar...

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Homogeneous Structures and Homogeneous Geodesics of the Hyperbolic Oscillator Group

  • Giovanni Calvaruso,
  • Amirhesam Zaeim,
  • Mehdi Jafari and
  • Moslem Baghgoli

15 January 2025

In this paper, we study some homogeneity properties of a semi-direct extension of the Heisenberg group, known in literature as the hyperbolic oscillator (or Boidol) group, equipped with the left-invariant metrics corresponding to the ones of the osci...

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7 Citations
2,907 Views
15 Pages

Geodesics of a Static Charged Black Hole Spacetime in f(R) Gravity

  • Prateek Sharma,
  • Hemwati Nandan,
  • Gamal G. L. Nashed,
  • Shobhit Giri and
  • Amare Abebe

3 February 2022

In recent years, the modification of general relativity (GR) through f(R) gravity is widely used to study gravity in a variety of scenarios. In this article, we study various physical properties of a black hole (BH) that emerged in the linear Maxwell...

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13 Pages

19 April 2024

In this work, we consider holomorphically projective mappings of (pseudo-) Kähler spaces. We determine the conditions for finite complete geodesics that must be satisfied for the mappings to be trivial; i.e., these spaces are rigid.

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In the paper, we consider holomorphically projective mappings of n-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian Kähler and hyperbolic Kähler spaces. We refined the fundamental linear equations of the above problems for metrics of differentiability class C...

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23 August 2025

This paper investigates the global dynamics of timelike geodesics of a spherically symmetric black hole under Lorentz-violating effects governed by parameters λ (scaling exponent) and Υ (Lorentz violation strength). By employing dynami...

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14 Citations
2,551 Views
6 Pages

1 September 2019

In the present paper, we study conformal mappings between a connected n-dimension pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifolds. Let g be a pseudo-Riemannian Einstein metric of indefinite signature on a connected n-dimensional manifold M. Further assume that...

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7 Citations
2,021 Views
24 Pages

21 July 2023

A class of exact (non-perturbative) models of strong gravitational waves based on Shapovalov type III spacetimes and Einstein’s vacuum equations is obtained. Exact solutions are found for the trajectories of particles and radiation in a gravita...

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3 Citations
4,195 Views
19 Pages

Geodesics (by definition) have an intrinsic 4-acceleration zero. However, when expressed in terms of coordinates, the coordinate acceleration d 2 x i / d t 2 can very easily be non-zero, and the coordinate velocity d x i / d t c...

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1 Citations
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New Generalization of Geodesic Convex Function

  • Ohud Bulayhan Almutairi and
  • Wedad Saleh

23 March 2023

As a generalization of a geodesic function, this paper introduces the notion of the geodesic φE-convex function. Some properties of the φE-convex function and geodesic φE-convex function are established. The concepts of a geodesic φE-...

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16 Pages

Geodesic Hermite Spline Curve on Triangular Meshes

  • Yujin Ha,
  • Jung-Ho Park and
  • Seung-Hyun Yoon

14 October 2021

Curves on a polygonal mesh are quite useful for geometric modeling and processing such as mesh-cutting and segmentation. In this paper, an effective method for constructing C1 piecewise cubic curves on a triangular mesh M while interpolating the give...

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1 Citations
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30 Pages

1 December 2023

Piecewise constant curvature soft actuators can generate various types of movements. These actuators can undergo extension, bending, rotation, twist, or a combination of these. Proprioceptive sensing provides the ability to track their movement or es...

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13 October 2024

We applied the Ramsey analysis to the sets of points belonging to Riemannian manifolds. The points are connected with two kinds of lines: geodesic and non-geodesic. This interconnection between the points is mapped into the bi-colored, complete Ramse...

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15 Citations
7,471 Views
11 Pages

Geodesic Vector Fields on a Riemannian Manifold

  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Patrik Peska and
  • Nasser Bin Turki

19 January 2020

A unit geodesic vector field on a Riemannian manifold is a vector field whose integral curves are geodesics, or in other worlds have zero acceleration. A geodesic vector field on a Riemannian manifold is a smooth vector field with acceleration of eac...

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A Note on Geodesic Vector Fields

  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Josef Mikeš,
  • Nasser Bin Turki and
  • Gabriel-Eduard Vîlcu

27 September 2020

The concircularity property of vector fields implies the geodesicity property, while the converse of this statement is not true. The main objective of this note is to find conditions under which the concircularity and geodesicity properties of vector...

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On Geodesic Triangles in Non-Euclidean Geometry

  • Antonella Nannicini and
  • Donato Pertici

26 September 2024

In this paper, we study centroids, orthocenters, circumcenters, and incenters of geodesic triangles in non-Euclidean geometry, and we discuss the existence of the Euler line in this context. Moreover, we give simple proofs of the existence of a total...

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Energy Benefits of Tourist Accommodation Using Geodesic Domes

  • Ángel Benigno González-Avilés,
  • Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana,
  • Antonio Galiano-Garrigós and
  • María Isabel Pérez-Millán

12 February 2024

Over the last decade there has been a proliferation of glamping architecture. This study analyses the energy performance of geodesic domes for use in tourist glamping compared to more conventional prismatic architectural solutions. The energy analysi...

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7 Citations
3,461 Views
12 Pages

Generalized Geodesic Convexity on Riemannian Manifolds

  • Izhar Ahmad,
  • Meraj Ali Khan and
  • Amira A. Ishan

16 June 2019

We introduce log-preinvex and log-invex functions on a Riemannian manifold. Some properties and relationships of these functions are discussed. A characterization for the existence of a global minimum point of a mathematical programming problem is pr...

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5 January 2022

This article introduces the concept of geodesic mappings of manifolds with idempotent pseudo-connections. The basic equations of canonical geodesic mappings of manifolds with completely idempotent pseudo-connectivity and semi-Riemannian manifolds wit...

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Resolvents for Convex Functions on Geodesic Spaces and Their Nonspreadingness

  • Takuto Kajimura,
  • Yasunori Kimura and
  • Fumiaki Kohsaka

14 April 2025

The convex optimization problems have been considered by many researchers on geodesic spaces. In these problems, the resolvent operators play an important role. In this paper, we propose new resolvents on geodesic spaces, and we show that they have b...

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8 Citations
3,033 Views
11 Pages

1 August 2019

In the present paper, we study geodesic mappings of special pseudo-Riemannian manifolds called V n ( K ) -spaces. We prove that the set of solutions of the system of equations of geodesic mappings on V n ( K ) -spaces forms a sp...

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2 Citations
2,598 Views
14 Pages

Falling into the Past: Geodesics in a Time Travel Metric

  • Colin MacLaurin,
  • Fabio Costa and
  • Timothy C. Ralph

16 February 2024

We investigate timelike and null geodesics within the rotating “time machine” spacetime proposed by Ralph, T.C.; et al. Phys. Rev. D 2020, 102, 124013. This is a rotating analogue of Alcubierre’s warp drive spacetime. We obtain...

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Convex Quadratic Programming for Computing Geodesic Distances on Triangle Meshes

  • Shuangmin Chen,
  • Nailei Hei,
  • Shun Hu,
  • Zijia Yue and
  • Ying He

27 March 2024

Querying the geodesic distance field on a given smooth surface is a fundamental research pursuit in computer graphics. Both accuracy and smoothness serve as common indicators for evaluating geodesic algorithms. In this study, we argue that ensuring t...

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1,592 Views
12 Pages

3 July 2023

This article gives an approach for establishing a surface family with a mutual geodesic curve in Galilean 3-space G3. Given a smooth space curve, we derive the sufficient and necessary condition for the given curve to be geodesic on it. Furthermore,...

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17 Citations
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8 Pages

We consider isofrequency pairing of geodesic orbits that share the same three orbital frequencies associated with Ωr^, Ωφ^, and Ωω^ in a particular region of parameter space around black string spacetime geometry. We study the effect of a compact ext...

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2 Citations
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23 Pages

16 August 2023

Simple closed formulas for endpoint geodesics on Graßmann manifolds are presented. In addition to realizing the shortest distance between two points, geodesics are also essential tools to generate more sophisticated curves that solve higher ord...

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8 Pages

Conformal and Geodesic Mappings onto Some Special Spaces

  • Volodymyr Berezovski,
  • Yevhen Cherevko and
  • Lenka Rýparová

25 July 2019

In this paper, we consider conformal mappings of Riemannian spaces onto Ricci-2-symmetric Riemannian spaces and geodesic mappings of spaces with affine connections onto Ricci-2-symmetric spaces. The main equations for the mappings are obtained as a c...

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22 December 2024

With the advancement of service robot technology, the demand for higher boundary precision in indoor semantic segmentation has increased. Traditional methods of extracting Euclidean features using point cloud and voxel data often neglect geodesic inf...

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21 Pages

10 February 2022

In this paper, we study contact magnetic geodesics in a 3-dimensional Lie group G endowed with a left invariant almost cosymplectic structure. We distinguish the two cases: G is unimodular, and G is nonunimodular. We pay a careful attention to the sp...

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9 Citations
2,090 Views
8 Pages

On Canonical Almost Geodesic Mappings of Type π2(e)

  • Volodymyr Berezovski,
  • Josef Mikeš,
  • Lenka Rýparová and
  • Almazbek Sabykanov

1 January 2020

In the paper, we consider canonical almost geodesic mappings of type π 2 ( e ) . We have found the conditions that must be satisfied for the mappings to preserve the Riemann tensor. Furthermore, we consider canonical almost geodesic map...

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6 Citations
2,613 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2021

We investigate the relation of the Lie point symmetries for the geodesic equations with the collineations of decomposable spacetimes. We review previous results in the literature on the Lie point symmetries of the geodesic equations and we follow a p...

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1 Citations
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14 Pages

Invariants for Second Type Almost Geodesic Mappings of Symmetric Affine Connection Space

  • Nenad O. Vesić,
  • Dušan J. Simjanović and
  • Branislav M. Randjelović

25 July 2024

This paper presents the results concerning a space of invariants for second type almost geodesic mappings. After discussing the general formulas of invariants for mappings of symmetric affine connection spaces, based on these formulas, invariants for...

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32 Citations
6,991 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2021

The paper presents the response of two geodesic domes under seismic excitations. The structures subjected to seismic analysis were created by two different methods of subdividing spherical triangles (the original octahedron face), as proposed by Fuli...

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15 Citations
4,124 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2019

In this study, we improved the matching efficiency of underwater terrain matching navigation. Firstly, a new geodesic-based method was developed by combining the law of the shortest arc in spherical geometry with the theory of the attitude control in...

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2 Citations
1,481 Views
12 Pages

Geodesic Mappings onto Generalized m-Ricci-Symmetric Spaces

  • Volodymyr Berezovski,
  • Yevhen Cherevko,
  • Irena Hinterleitner and
  • Patrik Peška

21 June 2022

In this paper, we study geodesic mappings of spaces with affine connections onto generalized 2-, 3-, and m-Ricci-symmetric spaces. In either case, the main equations for the mappings are obtained as a closed system of linear differential equations of...

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