Differential Geometry Meets the Cell

Differential Geometry Meets the Cell

A new study by Terasaki et al. highlights the role of physical forces in biological form by showing that connections between stacked endoplasmic reticulum cisternae have a shape well known in classical differential geometry, the helicoid, and that this shape is a predictable consequence of membrane physics.

Recurrent metrics in the geometry of second order differential equations

Given a pair (semispray $S$, metric $g$) on a tangent bundle, the family of nonlinear connections $N$ such that $g$ is recurrent with respect to $(S, N)$ with a fixed recurrent factor is determined by using the Obata tensors. In particular, we obtain a characterization for a pair $(N, g)$ to be recurrent as well as for the triple $(S, stackrel{c}{N}, g)$ where $stackrel{c}{N}$ is the canonical ...

Descriptive Geometry Meets Computer Vision — the Geometry of Multiple Images

The geometry of multiple images has been a standard topic in Descriptive Geometry and Photogrammetry (Remote Sensing) for more than 100 years. During the last twenty years great progress has been made within the field of Computer Vision, a topic with the main goal to endow a computer with a sense of vision. The previously graphical or mechanical methods of reconstruction have been replaced by m...

Geometry II - Discrete Differential Geometry

Differential Geometry

We discuss intrinsic aspects of Krupka's approach to nite{order variational sequences. We recover in an intrinsic way the second{order varia-tional calculus for aane Lagrangians by means of a natural generalisation of rst{ordertheories. Moreover, we nd an intrinsic expressionfor the Helmholtz morphism using a technique introduced by Koll a r that we have adapted to our context. Introduction The...