Generic Rigidity Matroids with Dilworth Truncations

We prove that the linear matroid that defines generic rigidity of $d$-dimensional body-rod-bar frameworks (i.e., structures consisting of disjoint bodies and rods mutually linked by bars) can be obtained from the union of ${d+1 \choose 2}$ graphic matroids by applying variants of Dilworth truncation $n_r$ times, where $n_r$ denotes the number of rods. This leads to an alternative proof of Tay's combinatorial characterizations of generic rigidity of rod-bar frameworks and that of identified body-hinge frameworks

Derivation of Hydrodynamics from the Hamiltonian description of particle systems

Hamiltonian particle systems may exhibit non-linear hydrodynamic phenomena as the time evolution of the density fields of energy, momentum, and mass. In this Letter, an exact equation describing the time evolution is derived assuming the local Gibbs distribution at initial time. The key concept in the derivation is an identity similar to the fluctuation theorems. The Navier-Stokes equation is obtained as a result of simple perturbation expansions in a small parameter that represents the scale separation.Comment: 7 pages. Minor revisions are made in ver.2; In ver.3, the presentation has been revised substantially, and this version will be published in Phys. Rev. Let

A semigroup approach to Finsler geometry: Bakry-Ledoux's isoperimetric inequality

We develop the celebrated semigroup approach \`a la Bakry et al on Finsler manifolds, where natural Laplacian and heat semigroup are nonlinear, based on the Bochner-Weitzenb\"ock formula established by Sturm and the author. We show the $L^1$-gradient estimate on Finsler manifolds (under some additional assumptions in the noncompact case), which is equivalent to a lower weighted Ricci curvature bound and the improved Bochner inequality. As a geometric application, we prove Bakry-Ledoux's Gaussian isoperimetric inequality, again under some additional assumptions in the noncompact case. This extends Cavalletti-Mondino's inequality on reversible Finsler manifolds to non-reversible metrics, and improves the author's previous estimate, both based on the localization (also called needle decomposition) method.Comment: 32 pages; v3: minor revisions; to appear in Comm. Anal. Geo

Nonlinear geometric analysis on Finsler manifolds

This is a survey article on recent progress of comparison geometry and geometric analysis on Finsler manifolds of weighted Ricci curvature bounded below. Our purpose is two-fold: Give a concise and geometric review on the birth of weighted Ricci curvature and its applications; Explain recent results from a nonlinear analogue of the $\Gamma$-calculus based on the Bochner inequality. In the latter we discuss some gradient estimates, functional inequalities, and isoperimetric inequalities.Comment: 37 pages, to appear in a topical issue of European Journal of Mathematics "Finsler Geometry: New Methods and Perspectives". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.0039