Laplacian of the distance function on the cut locus on a Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AB7D23MaRDI QIDQ3300375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors François Générau

Publication date 28 July 2020

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07479

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusobstacle problemRiemannian manifolddistance function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We show that, on a smooth riemannian manifold, the laplacian of the distance function to a point $b$ is $-infty$ in the sense of barriers, at every point of the cut locus with respect to $b$.

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