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EPFL2009

Hedlund metrics and the stable norm

Madeleine Jotz

The real homology of a compact Riemannian manifold M is naturally endowed with the stable norm. The stable norm on H-1 (M. R) arises from the Riemannian length functional by homogenization. It is difficult and interesting to decide which norms on the finit ...

Elsevier2009

Harmonic symmetrization of convex sets and of Finsler structures, with applications to Hilbert geometry

Marc Troyanov

David Hilbert discovered in 1895 an important metric that is canonically associated to any convex domain

\Omega

in the Euclidean (or projective) space. This metric is known to be Finslerian, and the usual proof assumes a certain degree of smoothness of t ...

2009

On the classification of the coadjoint orbits of the Sobolev Bott-Virasoro group

François Gay-Balmaz

The purpose of this paper is to give the classification of the Bott-Virasoro coadjoint orbits, with nonzero central charge, in the functional analytic setting of smooth Hilbert manifolds. The central object of the paper is thus the completion of the Bott-V ...

2009

Overactuated systems coordination

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The economic growth inherent to our nowadays society pushes the industries toward better performances. In the mechatronic context, the increasing competition results in more and more stringent specifications. Thus, the multiple objectives to track become h ...

EPFL2009

Isometry groups of non-positively curved spaces: Discrete subgroups

Nicolas Monod

We study lattices in non-positively curved metric spaces. Borel density is established in that setting as well as a form of Mostow rigidity. A converse to the flat torus theorem is provided. Geometric arithmeticity results are obtained after a detour throu ...

2009