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Figure 1: Vector-field mapping of an evanescent standing wave. Figure 2: Vector-field mapping of the surface-plasmon polariton standing wave. Figure 3: Vector-field mapping of light emerging from a ...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Jacobi-type vector fields on Riemannian manifolds, which is a generalization of the Jacobi field along a geodesic. We study Ricci solitons with positive Ricci ...