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Amaranth

2014-03-02T10:39:51Z

184.98.167.42: The only hummingbird thing about him is his name, and that might be a rebus for "south" (huitztli).

Potential buyers of Lancel see reviving the loss-making leather goods maker as a high-risk gamble that could take at least six or eight years to pay off, sources close to the matter say. 

Facing a struggle to offload the business, Swiss parent Richemont (CFR.VX) would be ready to pay for two years of losses - up to an estimated 20 million euros ($28 million) - to entice bidders, the sources say. So far private equity firms Change Capital and Lion Capital have expressed interest while Asian group Swire is looking to team up with a private equity firm to make a bid, according to the sources. Another potential buyer, who has not made up his mind yet, is Jacques Veyrat, the former CEO of private French trading group Louis Dreyfus who used to run its Neuf Cegetel telecoms unit. Veyrat left Louis Dreyfus in 2011 with a golden parachute of 270 million euros, according to the French press. He has since set up the Impala group, which invests in companies in distress. Veyrat, Swire, Lion Capital and Change Capital declined to comment, as did Lancel and Richemont. People close to the talks say the bidding process for Lancel, which had already been going on for months, could last several more weeks. Lancel is run part-time by Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Dunhill, another Richemont brand. Lancel has hired a new designer, Nicole Stulman, who was previously at Reed Krakoff, Hermes (HRMS.PA) and [http://www.pcs-systems.co.uk/Images/celinebag.aspx Celine Bag Online] and does not have a head of merchandising to work with since that person has left for Dunhill, sources close to the sale process said. Other key people at the company are either on sick leave or have not been replaced, the sources said. Lancel's difficulties come as the luxury sector as a whole remains resilient despite a slowdown in China, continuing to grow, although at a slower pace than in previous years. PRIVATE EQUITY The relationship between private equity and fashion brands can be difficult because the typical three- to five-year investment horizon may be too short to turn a label around. Private equity deals are usually financed by debt, which puts pressure on the fashion brand when it needs to invest in marketing and new shops. Lanvin, acquired by Taiwanese media magnate Shaw-Lan Wang from L'Oreal in 2001, took more than seven years to become profitable. TPG struggled for nine years to restructure the leather goods brand Bally before selling it in 2008. There have been few successful revamps of struggling brands that are still going concerns. Carven, Balenciaga and Lanvin lay dormant for decades before they were acquired, allowing their new owners to make a fresh start. Lancel was founded by accessories designer Ang�le Lancel in 1876, remaining in the hands of her descendants until it was acquired in the late 1970s by the Zorbibe brothers, who with then chief executive Sidney Toledano, now Dior CEO, launched the hit bucket-shaped Elsa bag and made Lancel a profitable business. Industry executives say Lancel was making margins higher than Louis Vuitton - today's market leader - when Richemont bought it in 1997. "All my girlfriends in the 1990s dreamt of having a Lancel bag," said Serge Carreira, who lectures on luxury at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, known as "Sciences Po". Lancel had not expanded internationally or [https://www.Gov.uk/search?q=creatively creatively] as its rivals did, he said. Lancel makes more than 80 percent of its sales in France and in the year to end June, it had an operating loss of 10 million euros on revenues of 135 million euros, sources close to the matter said. Richemont, the world's second biggest luxury group, does not publish separate sales and profit figures for its brands, which include Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. Longchamp, founded in 1948 and still owned by the founding Cassegrain family, has annual sales of 500 million euros. "ELECTRIC SHOCK" "What Lancel needs in an electric shock in terms of design, marketing, store concept and image," says Boston Consulting Group senior [http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/partner+Jean-Marc.html partner Jean-Marc] Bellaiche. Analysts say Lancel needs to enter the accessible segment of the luxury market, alongside Coach (COH.N), Michael Kors (KORS.N) and Longchamp with handbags costing 200-800 euros. Lancel lost credibility at the high end of the luxury market by offering excessive discounts and putting out staid, old-fashioned designs, such as the Brigitte Bardot bag in 2010 - a 1970s style version of the bucket bag - and the document holder Isabelle Adjani bag in 2008. "Lancel's products, while perfectly fine, look a bit dated and are not a must-buy," said Hugh Devlin, a consultant at legal firm Withers LLP, who specializes in luxury and fashion brands. "With the right creative team and strategy, that could definitely change but whoever buys it will need to be prepared to take a risk." Lancel clearly thinks it can make it as a luxury brand. A few months ago, it introduced an ostrich leather "L" bag costing 4,500 euros, emulating Gucci (PRTP.PA) and Louis Vuitton's (LVMH.PA) recent efforts to move upmarket. Carreira disagrees. "You do not become a luxury brand because you sell a bag for 4,000 euros," he said. To rebuild its name in the crowded accessories market, experts say Lancel should do some ready-to-wear, as Longchamp did, to stimulate traffic in shops and rejuvenate itself. Another potential investor who looked at Lancel said it had suffered from under-investment and excessive management turnover. Having had about a dozen chief executives since 1997, the company will now need to be given time by its new owners to implement long-term strategy, industry observers said. (Editing by Giles Elgood)

Flocking (behavior)

2014-01-26T08:09:57Z

184.98.159.160: I don't tink dis is da standahd toim.

{{for|geodesics on the [[Earth]] and other [[ellipsoid]]s|Geodesics on an ellipsoid}}
{{Geodesy}}
[[File:Spherical triangle.svg|thumb|right|150px|A geodesic triangle on the sphere.
The geodesics are [[great circle]] arcs.]]
In [[mathematics]], particularly [[differential geometry]], a '''geodesic''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|dʒ|iː|ɵ|ˈ|d|iː|z|ɨ|k}} {{respell|JEE|o|DEE|zik}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|dʒ|iː|ɵ|ˈ|d|ɛ|s|ɨ|k}} {{respell|JEE|o|DES|ik}}) is a generalization of the notion of a "[[Line (mathematics)|straight line]]" to "[[manifold|curved space]]s". In the presence of an [[affine connection]], a geodesic is defined to be a curve whose [[Tangent space|tangent vector]]s remain parallel if they are [[parallel transport|transported]] along it. If this connection is the [[Levi-Civita connection]] induced by a [[Riemannian metric]], then the geodesics are ([[local property|locally]]) the shortest path between points in the space.

The term "geodesic" comes from ''[[geodesy]]'', the science of measuring the size and shape of [[Earth]]; in the original sense, a geodesic was the shortest route between two points on the Earth's [[surface]], namely, a [[line segment|segment]] of a [[great circle]]. The term has been generalized to include measurements in much more general mathematical spaces; for example, in [[graph theory]], one might consider a geodesic between two [[vertex (graph theory)|vertices]]/nodes of a [[graph (mathematics)|graph]].

Geodesics are of particular importance in [[general relativity]]. [[Geodesics in general relativity]] describe the motion of inertial [[test particles]].

==Introduction==
The shortest path between two points in a curved space can be found by writing the [[equation]] for the length of a [[curve]] (a function ''f'' from an [[open interval]] of '''R''' to the [[manifold]]), and then minimizing this length using the [[calculus of variations]]. This has some minor technical problems, because there is an infinite dimensional space of different ways to parameterize the shortest path. It is simpler to demand not only that the curve locally minimize length but also that it is parameterized "with constant velocity", meaning that the distance from ''f''(''s'') to ''f''(''t'') along the geodesic is proportional to |''s''−''t''|. Equivalently, a different quantity may be defined, termed the [[energy]] of the curve; minimizing the energy leads to the same equations for a geodesic (here "constant velocity" is a consequence of minimisation). Intuitively, one can understand this second formulation by noting that an [[elastic band]] stretched between two points will contract its length, and in so doing will minimize its energy. The resulting shape of the band is a geodesic.

In Riemannian geometry geodesics are not the same as "shortest curves" between two points, though the two concepts are closely related. The difference is that geodesics are only ''locally'' the shortest distance between points, and are parameterized with "constant velocity". Going the "long way round" on a [[great circle]] between two points on a sphere is a geodesic but not the shortest path between the points. The map ''t'' → ''t''2 from the unit interval to itself gives the shortest path between 0 and 1, but is not a geodesic because the velocity of the corresponding motion of a point is not constant.

Geodesics are commonly seen in the study of [[Riemannian geometry]] and more generally [[metric geometry]]. In general relativity, geodesics describe the motion of [[point particle]]s under the influence of gravity alone. In particular, the path taken by a falling rock, an orbiting [[satellite]], or the shape of a [[planetary orbit]] are all geodesics in curved space-time. More generally, the topic of [[sub-Riemannian geometry]] deals with the paths that objects may take when they are not free, and their movement is constrained in various ways.

This article presents the mathematical formalism involved in defining, finding, and proving the existence of geodesics, in the case of [[Riemannian manifold|Riemannian]] and [[pseudo-Riemannian manifold]]s. The article [[geodesic (general relativity)]] discusses the special case of general relativity in greater detail.

===Examples===
[[File:Transpolar geodesic on a triaxial ellipsoid case A.svg|thumb|right|200px|
A [[geodesics on a triaxial ellipsoid|geodesic on a triaxial ellipsoid]].]]
The most familiar examples are the straight lines in [[Euclidean geometry]]. On a [[sphere]], the images of geodesics are the [[great circle]]s. The shortest path from point ''A'' to point ''B'' on a sphere is given by the shorter [[arc (geometry)|arc]] of the great circle passing through ''A'' and ''B''. If ''A'' and ''B'' are [[antipodal point]]s (like the [[North Pole]] and the [[South Pole]]), then there are ''infinitely many'' shortest paths between them. [[Geodesics on an ellipsoid]] behave in a more complicated way than on a sphere; in particular, they are not closed in general (see figure).

==Metric geometry==
In [[metric geometry]], a geodesic is a curve which is everywhere [[locally]] a [[distance]] minimizer. More precisely, a [[curve]] γ: ''I'' → ''M'' from an interval ''I'' of the reals to the [[metric space]] ''M'' is a '''geodesic''' if there is a [[mathematical constant|constant]] ''v'' ≥ 0 such that for any ''t'' ∈ ''I'' there is a neighborhood ''J'' of ''t'' in ''I'' such that for any {{nobr|''t''1, ''t''2 ∈ ''J''}} we have

:<math>d(\gamma(t_1),\gamma(t_2))=v|t_1-t_2|.\,</math>

This generalizes the notion of geodesic for Riemannian manifolds. However, in metric geometry the geodesic considered is often equipped with [[Curve#Length of curves|natural parameterization]], i.e. in the above identity ''v'' = 1 and

:<math>d(\gamma(t_1),\gamma(t_2))=|t_1-t_2|.\,</math>

If the last equality is satisfied for all ''t''1, ''t''2 ∈''I'', the geodesic is called a '''minimizing geodesic''' or '''shortest path'''.

In general, a metric space may have no geodesics, except constant curves. At the other extreme, any two points in a [[length metric space]] are joined by a minimizing sequence of [[rectifiable path]]s, although this minimizing sequence need not converge to a geodesic.

==Riemannian geometry==
In a [[Riemannian manifold]] ''M'' with [[metric tensor]] ''g'', the length of a continuously differentiable curve γ : [''a'',''b''] → ''M'' is defined by
:<math>L(\gamma)=\int_a^b \sqrt{ g_{\gamma(t)}(\dot\gamma(t),\dot\gamma(t)) }\,dt.</math>
The distance ''d''(''p'', ''q'') between two points ''p'' and ''q'' of ''M'' is defined as the [[infimum]] of the length taken over all continuous, piecewise continuously differentiable curves γ : [''a'',''b''] → ''M'' such that γ(''a'') = ''p'' and γ(''b'') = ''q''. With this definition of distance, geodesics in a Riemannian manifold are then the locally distance-minimizing paths.

The minimizing curves of ''L'' in a small enough [[open set]] of ''M'' can be obtained by techniques of [[calculus of variations]]. Typically, one introduces the following [[action (physics)|action]] or [[energy functional]]
:<math>E(\gamma)=\frac{1}{2}\int g_{\gamma(t)}(\dot\gamma(t),\dot\gamma(t))\,dt.</math>
It is then enough to minimize the functional ''E'', owing to the [[Cauchy–Schwarz inequality]]
:<math>L(\gamma)^2\le 2(b-a)E(\gamma)</math>
with equality if and only if |dγ/dt| is constant.

The [[Euler–Lagrange]] equations of motion for the functional ''E'' are then given in local coordinates by
:<math>\frac{d^2x^\lambda }{dt^2} + \Gamma^{\lambda}_{\mu \nu }\frac{dx^\mu }{dt}\frac{dx^\nu }{dt} = 0,</math>
where <math>\Gamma^\lambda_{\mu\nu}</math> are the [[Christoffel symbols]] of the metric. This is the '''geodesic equation''', discussed [[#Affine geodesics|below]].

===Calculus of variations===

Techniques of the classical [[calculus of variations]] can be applied to examine the energy functional ''E''. The [[first variation]] of energy is defined in local coordinates by

:<math>\delta E(\gamma)(\varphi) = \left.\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\right|_{t=0} E(\gamma + t\varphi).</math>

The [[critical point (mathematics)|critical point]]s of the first variation are precisely the geodesics. The [[second variation]] is defined by

:<math>\delta^2 E(\gamma)(\varphi,\psi) = \left.\frac{\partial^2}{\partial s\partial t}\right|_{s=t=0}E(\gamma + t\varphi + s\psi).</math>

In an appropriate sense, zeros of the second variation along a geodesic γ arise along [[Jacobi field]]s. Jacobi fields are thus regarded as variations through geodesics.

By applying variational techniques from [[classical mechanics]], one can also regard [[geodesics as Hamiltonian flows]]. They are solutions of the associated [[Hamilton–Jacobi equation]]s, with (pseudo-)Riemannian metric taken as [[Hamiltonian mechanics|Hamiltonian]].

==Affine geodesics==
{{Seealso|Geodesics in general relativity}}
A '''geodesic''' on a [[Differentiable manifold|smooth manifold]] ''M'' with an [[affine connection]] ∇ is defined as a [[curve]] γ(''t'') such that [[parallel transport]] along the curve preserves the tangent vector to the curve, so
{{NumBlk|:|<math> \nabla_{\dot\gamma} \dot\gamma= 0</math>|{{EquationRef|1}}}}
at each point along the curve, where <math>\dot\gamma</math> is the derivative with respect to <math>t</math>. More precisely, in order to define the covariant derivative of <math>\dot\gamma</math> it is necessary first to extend <math>\dot\gamma</math> to a continuously differentiable [[vector field]] in an [[open set]]. However, the resulting value of ({{EquationNote|1}}) is independent of the choice of extension.

Using [[local coordinates]] on ''M'', we can write the '''geodesic equation''' (using the [[summation convention]]) as
:<math>\frac{d^2\gamma^\lambda }{dt^2} + \Gamma^{\lambda}_{\mu \nu }\frac{d\gamma^\mu }{dt}\frac{d\gamma^\nu }{dt} = 0\ ,</math>
where <math>\gamma^\mu = x^\mu \circ \gamma (t)</math> are the coordinates of the curve γ(''t'') and <math>\Gamma^{\lambda }_{\mu \nu }</math> are the [[Christoffel symbol]]s of the connection ∇. This is just an [[ordinary differential equation]] for the coordinates. It has a unique solution, given an initial position and an initial velocity. Therefore, from the point of view of [[classical mechanics]], geodesics can be thought of as trajectories of [[free particle]]s in a manifold. Indeed, the equation <math> \nabla_{\dot\gamma} \dot\gamma= 0</math> means that the acceleration of the curve has no components in the direction of the surface (and therefore it is perpendicular to the tangent plane of the surface at each point of the curve). So, the motion is completely determined by the bending of the surface. This is also the idea of general relativity where particles move on geodesics and the bending is caused by the gravity.

===Existence and uniqueness===
The ''local existence and uniqueness theorem'' for geodesics states that geodesics on a smooth manifold with an [[affine connection]] exist, and are unique. More precisely:

:For any point ''p'' in ''M'' and for any vector ''V'' in ''TpM'' (the [[tangent space]] to ''M'' at ''p'') there exists a unique geodesic <math>\gamma \,</math> : ''I'' → ''M'' such that
::<math>\gamma(0) = p \,</math> and
::<math>\dot\gamma(0) = V</math>,
:where ''I'' is a maximal [[open interval]] in '''R''' containing 0.

In general, ''I'' may not be all of '''R''' as for example for an open disc in '''R'''2. The proof of this theorem follows from the theory of [[ordinary differential equation]]s, by noticing that the geodesic equation is a second-order ODE. Existence and uniqueness then follow from the [[Picard–Lindelöf theorem]] for the solutions of ODEs with prescribed initial conditions. γ depends [[smooth function|smoothly]] on both ''p'' and ''V''.

===Geodesic flow===
Geodesic [[Flow (mathematics)|flow]] is a local '''R'''-[[group action|action]] on [[tangent bundle]] ''TM'' of a manifold ''M'' defined in the following way
:<math>G^t(V)=\dot\gamma_V(t)</math>
where ''t'' ∈ '''R''', ''V'' ∈ ''TM'' and <math>\gamma_V</math> denotes the geodesic with initial data <math>\dot\gamma_V(0)=V</math>. Thus, ''Gt''(''V'') = exp(''tV'') is the [[exponential map]] of the vector ''tV''. A closed orbit of the geodesic flow corresponds to a [[closed geodesic]] on ''M''.

On a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold, the geodesic flow is identified with a [[Hamiltonian flow]] on the cotangent bundle. The [[Hamiltonian mechanics|Hamiltonian]] is then given by the inverse of the (pseudo-)Riemannian metric, evaluated against the [[canonical one-form]]. In particular the flow preserves the (pseudo-)Riemannian metric <math>g</math>, i.e.
:<math>g(G^t(V),G^t(V))=g(V,V)</math>.
In particular, when ''V'' is a unit vector, <math>\gamma_V</math> remains unit speed throughout, so the geodesic flow is tangent to the [[unit tangent bundle]]. [[Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)|Liouville's theorem]] implies invariance of a kinematic measure on the unit tangent bundle.

===Geodesic spray===
The geodesic flow defines a family of curves in the [[tangent bundle]]. The derivatives of these curves define a [[vector field]] on the [[total space]] of the tangent bundle, known as the [[spray (mathematics)|geodesic spray]].

More precisely, an affine connection gives rise to a splitting of the [[double tangent bundle]] TT''M'' into [[horizontal bundle|horizontal]] and [[vertical bundle]]s:
:<math>TTM = H\oplus V.</math>
The geodesic spray is the unique horizontal vector field ''W'' satisfying
:<math>\pi_* W_v = v\,</math>
at each point ''v'' ∈ T''M''; here π∗ : TT''M'' → T''M'' denotes the [[pushforward (differential)]] along the projection π : T''M'' → ''M'' associated to the tangent bundle.

More generally, the same construction allows one to construct a vector field for any [[Ehresmann connection]] on the tangent bundle. For the resulting vector field to be a spray (on the deleted tangent bundle T''M'' \ {0}) it is enough that the connection be equivariant under positive rescalings: it need not be linear. That is, (cf. [[Ehresmann connection#Vector bundles and covariant derivatives]]) it is enough that the horizontal distribution satisfy
:<math>H_{\lambda X} = d(S_\lambda)_X H_X\,</math>
for every ''X'' ∈ T''M'' \ {0} and λ > 0. Here ''d''(''S''λ) is the [[pushforward (differential)|pushforward]] along the scalar homothety <math>S_\lambda: X\mapsto \lambda X.</math> A particular case of a non-linear connection arising in this manner is that associated to a [[Finsler manifold]].

===Affine and projective geodesics===
Equation ({{EquationNote|1}}) is invariant under affine reparameterizations; that is, parameterizations of the form
:<math>t\mapsto at+b</math>
where ''a'' and ''b'' are constant real numbers. Thus apart from specifying a certain class of embedded curves, the geodesic equation also determines a preferred class of parameterizations on each of the curves. Accordingly, solutions of ({{EquationNote|1}}) are called geodesics with '''affine parameter'''.

An affine connection is ''determined by'' its family of affinely parameterized geodesics, up to [[torsion tensor|torsion]] {{harv|Spivak|1999|loc=Chapter 6, Addendum I}}. The torsion itself does not, in fact, affect the family of geodesics, since the geodesic equation depends only on the symmetric part of the connection. More precisely, if <math>\nabla, \bar{\nabla}</math> are two connections such that the difference tensor
:<math>D(X,Y) = \nabla_XY-\bar{\nabla}_XY</math>
is [[skew-symmetric]], then <math>\nabla</math> and <math>\bar{\nabla}</math> have the same geodesics, with the same affine parameterizations. Furthermore, there is a unique connection having the same geodesics as <math>\nabla</math>, but with vanishing torsion.

Geodesics without a particular parameterization are described by a [[projective connection]].

==See also==
<div style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;">
* [[Basic introduction to the mathematics of curved spacetime]]
* [[Clairaut's relation]]
* [[Closed geodesic]]
* [[Complex geodesic]]
* [[Differential geometry of curves]]
* [[Exponential map]]
* [[Fermat's principle]]
* [[Geodesic dome]]
* [[Geodesic (general relativity)]]
* [[Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows]]
* [[Hopf–Rinow theorem]]
* [[Intrinsic metric]]
* [[Jacobi field]]
* [[Quasigeodesic]]
* [[Solving the geodesic equations]]
* [[Zoll surface]]
* [[Nautical chart]]
* [[Rhumb line]] (loxodrome)
* [[Meridian arc]]
</div>

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== External links ==
* [http://www.black-holes.org/relativity5.html Caltech Tutorial on Relativity] — A nice, simple explanation of geodesics with accompanying animation.
* [http://www.cmsim.eu/papers_pdf/january_2012_papers/25_CMSIM_2012_Pokorny_1_281-298.pdf Geodesics Revisited] — Introduction to geodesics including two ways of derivation of the equation of geodesic with applications in geometry (geodesic on a sphere and on a [[torus]]), mechanics ([[brachistochrone]]) and optics (light beam in inhomogeneous medium).
* [http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/geometry#Geodesics_on_a_parametric_surface Geodesics on a parametric surface -- sage interact] — Interactive [[Sagemath]] worksheet to calculate and illustrate geodesics on parametric surfaces.
* [http://www.map.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/Totally_geodesic_submanifold Totally geodesic submanifold] at the Manifold Atlas
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