The cotan formula constitutes a discretization of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on polyhedral surfaces in a Finite Element sense. In this note we give an overview over its convergence properties. The mean curvature vector, given by the Laplacian of the embedding of a surface, will serve as a case study: It will be shown that mean curvature viewed as a functional converges, whereas the correspon...

In this paper we study Riemannian manifolds (M, g) equipped with a smooth measure m. In particular, we show that the construction of conformally covariant operators due to Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling can be adapted to this setting. As a by-product, we define a family of scalar curvatures, one of which corresponds to Perelman’s scalar curvature function. We also study the variational problem nat...

Abstract. Let (M, J, θ0) be a closed pseudohermitian 3-manifold. Suppose the associated torsion vanishes and the associated Q-curvature has no kernel part with respect to the associated Paneitz operator. On such a background pseudohermitian 3-manifold, we study the change of the contact form according to a certain version of normalized Q-curvature flow. This is a fourth order evolution equation...

We provide sufficient normal curvature conditions on the boundary of a domain D ⊂ R to guarantee unboundedness of the bilinear Fourier multiplier operator TD with symbol χD outside the local L 2 setting, i.e. from L1 (R) × L2 (R) → L ′ 3 (R) with P 1 pj = 1 and pj < 2 for some j. In particular, these curvature conditions are satisfied by any domain D that is locally strictly convex at a single ...

We consider second-order linear elliptic operators of nondivergence type which is intrinsically defined on Riemannian manifolds. Cabré proved a global Krylov-Safonov Harnack inequality under the assumption that the sectional curvature is nonnegative. We improve Cabré’s result and, as a consequence, we give another proof to Harnack inequality of Yau for positive harmonic functions on Riemannian ...

We prove the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture for cocompact Fuchsian groups, thereby giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a closed spin manifold of dimension greater than four with fundamental group cocompact Fuchsian to admit a metric of positive scalar curvature. Given a smooth closed manifold M, it is a long-standing question to determine whether or notM admits a Riemannian metri...

This paper proposes a time optimal path planning while considering the physical constraints of wheeled mobile robots along a high curvature Bezier curve. The proposed algorithm overcomes drawbacks of preceding results. A trajectory produced through acceleration limits showed long traveling time, non-uniform sampling time and unsatisfied terminal velocity. A convolution-based method to consider ...

In this paper we continue to study Riemannian manifolds (M, g) equipped with a smooth measure m. In particular, we show that the construction of conformally covariant operators due to Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling can be adapted to this setting. As a by-product, we define a family of scalar curvatures, one of which corresponds to Perelman’s scalar curvature function. We also study the variational...

The cotangent formula constitutes an intrinsic discretization of the Laplace– Beltrami operator on polyhedral surfaces in a finite element sense. This note gives an overview of approximation and convergence properties of discrete Laplacians and mean curvature vectors for polyhedral surfaces located in the vicinity of a smooth surface in euclidean 3–space. In particular, we show that mean curvat...

Quillen’s local index theorem is used to study the charge transport coefficients (adiabatic curvature) associated to the ground state of a Schrödinger operator for a charged (spinless) particle on a closed, multiply connected surface. The formula splits the adiabatic curvature into an explicit integral part and a fluctuating part which has a natural interpretation in terms of quantum chaos. PAC...