Scattering of geodesic fields, I

DOI10.2307/1971170MaRDI QIDQ1254760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Herman Gluck, David A. Singer

Publication date 1978

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1971170

zbMATH Keywords

Cut LocusFolisationGeodesicGeometric OpticsInverse ScatteringRiemannian ManifoldScattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Geometric optics (78A05)

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• Homotopic distance and generalized motion planning
• Conjugate and cut loci of a two-sphere of revolution with application to optimal control
• What do cylinders look like?
• On typical degenerate convex surfaces
• Insecurity is generic in a conformal class of Riemannian metrics
• Geodesic flow of the averaged controlled Kepler equation
• Riemannian and Finslerian spheres with fractal cut loci
• Cut and singular loci up to codimension 3
• Extreme points of the distance function on convex surfaces
• The Lipschitz continuity of the distance function to the cut locus
• Parallel Translation of Curvature Along Geodesics
• Loki: Software for Computing Cut Loci
• Every graph is a cut locus
• On the critical points of a Riemannian surface
• Focal stability of Riemann metrics
• A connection between cut locus, Thom space and Morse-Bott functions
• Geodesic complexity of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds
• Cut locus structures on graphs
• Geometric and topological properties of manifolds in robot motion planning
• The Zermelo navigation problem on the 2-sphere of revolution: an optimal control perspective with applications to micromagnetism
• Every point in a Riemannian manifold is critical
• The Azimuthal equidistant projection for a Finsler manifold by the exponential map
• Alexandrov's isodiametric conjecture and the cut locus of a surface

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