Recently, various conformal geometric methods have been presented for non-rigid surface matching and registration. This work proposes to improve the robustness of conformal geometric methods to the boundaries by incorporating the symmetric information of the input surface. We presented two symmetric conformal mapping methods, which are based on solving Riemann-Cauchy equation and curvature flow...

Abstract: In this paper, we prove some optimal inequalities involving the intrinsic scalar curvature and the extrinsic Casorati curvature of submanifolds in a generalized complex space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection and a generalized Sasakian space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection. Moreover, we show that in both cases, the equalities hold if and only if submani...

We consider the mean curvature evolution of rotationally symmetric surfaces. Using numerical methods, we detect critical behavior at the threshold of singularity formation resembling the one of gravitational collapse. In particular, the mean curvature simulation of a one-parameter family of initial data reveals the existence of a critical initial surface that develops a degenerate neckpinch. Th...

In this paper, we study certain curvature conditions satisfying by the conharmonic curvature tensor in a Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifold with respect to the quarter-symmetric metric connection. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 53B05, 53C25

For k ≥ 2, we exhibit complete k-curvature homogeneous neutral signature pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally affine homogeneous (and hence not locally homogeneous). The curvature tensor of these manifolds is modeled on that of an indecomposible symmetric space. All the local scalar Weyl curvature invariants of these manifolds vanish. Dedicated to Professor Sekigawa on his 60th bir...

We prove curvature estimates for general curvature functions. As an application we show the existence of closed, strictly convex hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature F , where the defining cone of F is Γ+. F is only assumed to be monotone, symmetric, homogeneous of degree 1, concave and of class C, m ≥ 4.

All continuous linearly intertwining symmetric Blaschke valuations on convex bodies are completely classified. It is shown that there is a unique non-trivial such valuation. On symmetric bodies, this valuation is the curvature image operator.

We give an elementary construction of symplectic connections through reduction. This provides an elegant description of a class of symmetric spaces and gives examples of symplectic connections with Ricci type curvature, which are not locally symmetric; the existence of such symplectic connections was unknown. Key-words: Marsden-Weinstein reduction, symplectic connections, symmetric spaces MSC 2...

We discuss the phase structure (in the 1/N -expansion) of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in curved spacetime with non-trivial topology M3 × S. The evaluation of the effective potential of the composite field ψ̄ψ is presented in the linear curvature approximation (topology is treated exactly) and in the leading order of the 1/N -expansion. The combined influence of topology and curvature to the pha...

We determine the isomorphism classes of symmetric symplectic manifolds of dimension at least 4 which are connected, simply-connected and have a curvature tensor which has only one non-vanishing irreducible component – the Ricci tensor.