We prove Hessian comparison theorems, Laplacian comparison theorems and volume comparison theorems of Finsler manifolds under various curvature conditions. As applications, we derive Mckean type theorems for the first eigenvalue of Finsler manifolds, as well as generalize a result on fundamental group due to Milnor to Finsler manifolds.

We establish an unexpected relation among the Weil-Petersson metric, the generalized Hodge metrics and the BCOV torsion. Using this relation, we prove that certain kind of moduli spaces of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds do not admit complete subvarieties. That is, there is no complete family for certain class of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. We also give an estimate of the complex Hessian of ...

We establish an unexpected relation among the Weil-Petersson metric, the generalized Hodge metrics and the BCOV torsion. Using this relation, we prove that certain kind of moduli spaces of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds do not admit complete subvarieties. That is, there is no complete smooth family for certain class of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. We also give an estimate of the complex Hess...

Ambrose, Palais and Singer [6] introduced the concept of second order structures on finite dimensional manifolds. Kumar and Viswanath [23] extended these results to the category of Banach manifolds. In the present paper all of these results are generalized to a large class of Fréchet manifolds. It is proved that the existence of Christoffel and Hessian structures, connections, sprays and dissec...

The squared distance function is one of the standard functions on which an optimization algorithm is commonly run, whether it is used directly or chained with other functions. Illustrative examples include center of mass computation, implementation of k-means algorithm and robot positioning. This function can have a simple expression (as in the Euclidean case), or it might not even have a close...

In this paper we define nth order Hessian structures on manifolds and study them. In particular, when n = 3, we make a detailed study and establish a one-to-one correspondence between third-order Hessian structures and a certain class of connections on the second-order tangent bundle of a manifold. Further, we show that a connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold induces a connection on th...