It is conjectured that a hyperbolic knot complement does not contain a closed embedded totally geodesic surface. In this paper, we show that there are no such surfaces in the complements of hyperbolic 3-bridge knots and double torus knots. Some topological criteria for a closed essential surface failing to be totally geodesic are given. Roughly speaking, sufficiently ‘complicated’ surfaces can ...

It is shown that every non-compact hyperbolic manifold of finite volume has a finite cover admitting a geodesic ideal triangulation. Also, every hyperbolic manifold of finite volume with non-empty, totally geodesic boundary has a finite regular cover which has a geodesic partially truncated triangulation. The proofs use an extension of a result due to Long and Niblo concerning the separability ...

We construct shape spaces of elastic spherical surfaces immersed in Euclidean space R. The spaces are equipped with geodesic metrics that depend on the tension and rigidity of the surfaces. We develop algorithms to calculate geodesics and geodesic distances, as well as tools to quantify local shape similarities and contrasts, thus obtaining a local-global formulation. We give examples of geodes...

The geodesic k-center problem in a simple polygon with n vertices consists in the following. Find a set S of k points in the polygon that minimizes the maximum geodesic distance from any point of the polygon to its closest point in S. In this paper, we focus on the case where k = 2 and present an exact algorithm that returns a geodesic 2-center in O(n log n) time.

The L-metric or Fubini-Study metric on the non-linear Grassmannian of all submanifolds of type M in a Riemannian manifold (N, g) induces geodesic distance 0. We discuss another metric which involves the mean curvature and shows that its geodesic distance is a good topological metric. The vanishing phenomenon for the geodesic distance holds also for all diffeomorphism groups for the L-metric.

In this paper we investigate a special kind of almost geodesic mapping of the third type of spaces with non-symmetric affine connection. Also we find some relations for curvature tensors of associated affine connection spaces of almost geodesic mappings of the third type. Finally, we investigate equitorsion almost geodesic mapping having the property of reciprocity and find an invariant geometr...

We study the behaviour of a Hilbert geometry when going to infinity along a geodesic line. We prove that all the information is contained in the shape of the boundary at the endpoint of this geodesic line and have to introduce a regularity property of convex functions to make this link precise. The point of view is a dynamical one and the main interest of this article is in Lyapunov exponents o...

This note records some observations concerning geodesic growth functions. If a nilpotent group is not virtually cyclic then it has exponential geodesic growth with respect to all finite generating sets. On the other hand, if a finitely generated group G has an element whose normal closure is abelian and of finite index, then G has a finite generating set with respect to which the geodesic growt...

In this article, we try to understand the mechanisms of the non properness of the action of the group of diffeomorphisms on the space of Lorentzian metrics of a compact manifold. We give a first result that describes the dynamical behavior of the sequences of diffeomorphisms involved which entails the existence of metrics that admit an isotropic geodesic foliation of codimension 1. On the 2-tor...

In this article, we try to understand the mechanisms of the non properness of the action of the group of diffeomorphisms on the space of Lorentzian metrics of a compact manifold. We give a first result that describes the dynamical behavior of the sequences of diffeomorphisms involved which entails the existence of metrics that admit an isotropic geodesic foliation of codimension 1. On the 2-tor...