We present a computational methodology for incorporating thermal effects and calculating relative free energies for elastic fluid membranes subject to spatially dependent intrinsic curvature fields using the method of thermodynamic integration. Based on a simple model for the intrinsic curvature imposed only in a localized region of the membrane, we employ thermodynamic integration to calculate...

we prove that every r-quadratic metric of scalar flag curvature with a dimension greater than twois of constant flag curvature. then we show that generalized douglas-weyl metrics contain r-quadraticmetrics as a special case, but the class of r-quadratic metric is not closed under projective transformations

in this paper the general relatively isotropic l -curvature finsler metrics are studied. it isshown that on constant relatively landsberg spaces, the concepts of weakly landsbergian, landsbergianand generalized landsbergian metrics are equivalent. some necessary conditions for a relativelyisotropic l -curvature finsler metric to be a riemannian metric are also found.

One of the basic problems of Riemannian geometry is the classification of manifolds of positive sectional curvature. The known examples include the spherical space forms which carry constant curvature metrics and the rank 1 symmetric spaces whose canonical metrics have sectional curvatures at each point varying between 1 and 4. In 1951 H.E. Rauch [18] introduced the notion of curvature pinching...

Let M be a compact k-dimensional riemmanian manifold minimally immersed in the unit n-dimensional sphere S. It is easy to show that for any p ∈ S the boundary of the geodesic ball in S with radius π2 and center at p (in this case this boundary is an equator) must intercept the manifold M . When the codimension is 1, i.e. k = n − 1, it is known that the ricci curvature, is not greater than 1. We...

In this article, we will give a brief survey on some recent development concerning the understanding of the structure at infinity of a complete manifold whose spectrum has a positive lower bound. Throughout this paper, we denote M to be a complete n-dimensional manifold without boundary endowed with the metric ds. We assume that the Ricci curvature of M is bounded from below by some constant. R...

PURPOSE To describe longitudinal changes in corneal curvature (CC) and axial length (AL) over 14 years, and to explore the relationship between AL and CC, and the axial length/corneal radius (AL/CR) ratio. METHODS In total 469, 6 to <12-year-old, children were enrolled in COMET. Measurements of refractive error, CC (D), CR (mm), and ocular component dimensions including AL were gathered annua...

The conformal monogenic signal is a novel rotational invariant approach for analyzing i(ntrinsic)1D and i2D local features of twodimensional signals (e.g. images) without the use of any heuristics. It contains the monogenic signal as a special case for i1D signals and combines scale-space, phase, orientation, energy and isophote curvature in one unified algebraic framework. The conformal monoge...

This paper describes a complete laser-based approach for tracking the pose of a robot in a dynamic environment. The main novelty of this approach is that the matching between consecutively acquired scans is achieved using their associated curvature-based representations. The proposed scan matching algorithm consists of three stages. Firstly, the whole raw laser data is segmented into groups of ...

In this paper the following three goals are addressed. The first goal is to study some strong partial differential equations (PDEs) that imply curvature-flatness, in cases of both symmetric and non-symmetric connection. Although curvature-flatness idea classic for connection, our main theorems about flatness solutions completely new, leaving a while point view geometry entering PDEs. second int...