The Bochner tensor is the Kähler analogue of the conformal Weyl tensor. In this article, we derive local (i.e., in a neighbourhood of almost every point) normal forms for a (pseudo-)Kähler manifold with vanishing Bochner tensor. The description is pined down to a new class of symmetric spaces which we describe in terms of their curvature operators. We also give a local description of weakly Bochner-flat

We prove that Maxwell fields of asymptotically flat solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations inherit the stationarity of the metric.

We show that the conformal structure for the Riemannian analogues of Kerr black-hole metrics can be given an ambitoric structure. We then discuss the properties of the moment maps. In particular, we observe that the moment map image is not locally convex near the singularity corresponding to the ring singularity in the interior of the black hole. We then proceed to classify regular ambitoric $4$-orbifolds

We investigate some differential geometric aspects of the space of Bridgeland stability conditions on a Calabi–Yau triangulated category The aim is to give a provisional definition of Weil–Petersson geometry on the stringy Kähler moduli space. We study in detail a few basic examples to support our proposal. In particular, we identify our Weil–Petersson metric with the Bergman metric on a Siegel modular

We show that some embedded standard $13$‑spheres in Shimada’s exotic $15$‑spheres have $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quotient spaces, $P^{13}$s, that are fake real $13$‑dimensional projective spaces, i.e., they are homotopy equivalent, but not diffeomorphic to the standard $\mathbb{R}\mathbf{P}^{13}$. As observed by F. Wilhelm and the second named author in [RW], the Davis $\mathsf{SO}(2) \times \mathsf{G}_2$ actions

We show that, among free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, the flat equatorial disk and the critical catenoid are characterised by a pinching condition on the length of their second fundamental form.

We study the index of the APS boundary value problem for a strongly Callias-type operator $\mathcal{D}$ on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$. We use this index to define the relative $\eta$-invariant $\eta (\mathcal{A}_1 , \mathcal{A}_0)$ of two strongly Callias-type operators, which are equal outside of a compact set. Even though in our situation the $\eta$-invariants of $\mathcal{A}_1$ and $\mathcal{A}_0$

In this paper, we study self-expanding solutions to a large class of parabolic inverse curvature flows by homogeneous symmetric functions of principal curvatures in Euclidean spaces. These flows include the inverse mean curvature flow and many nonlinear flows in the literature. We first show that the only compact self-expanders to any of these flows are round spheres. Secondly, we show that complete

Given an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold with minimal conformal infinity, we construct blowing-up solutions for linear perturbations of the fractional Yamabe problem on the conformal infinity provided that either the trace-free part of the second fundamental form or the covariant normal derivative of the normal component of the Ricci tensor on the conformal infinity is non-trivial.

This article is devoted to the study of prime alternating +achiral knots. In the case of arborescent knots, we prove in +AAA Visibility Theorem 5.1, that the symmetry is visible on a certain projection (not necessarily minimal) and that it is realised by a homeomorphism of order $4$. In the general case (arborescent or not), if the prime alternating knot has no minimal projection on which +achirality

For every genus $g \geqslant 2$, we construct an infinite family of strongly quasipositive fibred knots $K_n$ having the same Seifert form as the torus knot $T(2, 2g + 1)$. In particular, their homological monodromies agree and their signatures and four-genera are maximal: $\lvert \sigma (K_n) \rvert = 2g_4 (K_n) = 2g$. On the other hand, the geometric stretching factors are pairwise distinct and the

In this paper, we study the Gauss map of a free boundary minimal surface. The main theorem asserts that if components of the Gauss map are eigenfunctions of the Jacobi–Steklov operator, then the surface must be rotationally symmetric.

In this paper we discuss the asymptotic entropy for ancient solutions to the Ricci flow. We prove a gap theorem for ancient solutions, which could be regarded as an entropy counterpart of Yokota’s work. In addition, we prove that under some assumptions on one time slice of a complete ancient solution with nonnegative curvature operator, finite asymptotic entropy implies $\kappa$‑noncollapsing on all

Let $G$ be a reductive affine algebraic group defined over $\mathbb{C}$, and let $\nabla_0$ be a meromorphic $G$-connection on a holomorphic principal $G$-bundle $E_0$, over a smooth complex projective curve $X_0$, with polar locus $P_0 \subset X_0$. We assume that $\nabla_0$ is irreducible in the sense that it does not factor through some proper parabolic subgroup of $G$. We consider the universal

We provide a geometric framework for the construction of non-vacuum black holes whose metrics are stationary and axisymmetric. Under suitable assumptions we show that the Einstein equations reduce to an Einstein-harmonic map type system and analyze the compatibility of the resulting equations. This framework is fundamental to our construction [3] of metric-stationary axisymmetric bifurcations of Kerr

We consider sub-Riemannian spaces admitting an isometry group that is maximal in the sense that any linear isometry between the horizontal tangent spaces is realized by a global isometry. We will show that these spaces have a canonical choice of partial connection on their horizontal bundle, which is determined by isometries and generalizes the Levi–Civita connection for the special case of Riemannian

We endow each closed, orientable Alexandrov space $(X, d)$ with an integral current $T$ of weight equal to $1 , \partial T = 0$ and $\operatorname{set}(T) = X$, in other words, we prove that $(X, d, T)$ is an integral current space with no boundary. Combining this result with a result of Li and Perales, we show that non-collapsing sequences of these spaces with uniform lower curvature and diameter

We provide regularity results for CR-maps from a real hypersurface in $n$-dimensional complex space to a Levi-degenerate target hypersurface in a $n + 1$-dimensional space. We address both the real-analytic and the smooth case. Our results allow immediate applications to the study of proper holomorphic maps between Bounded Symmetric Domains.

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $\mathbb{R}^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the surface.We establish longtime-existence of the flow and investigate the projection of the flowing surface onto $\mathbb{R}^n$, the shadow of the flow. This moving

The conformal method is a technique for finding Cauchy data in general relativity solving the Einstein constraint equations, and its parameters include a conformal class, a conformal momentum (as measured by a densitized lapse), and a mean curvature. Although the conformal method is successful in generating constant mean curvature (CMC) solutions of the constraint equations, it is unknown how well

We show that for very general hypersurfaces in odd-dimensional simplicial projective toric varieties satisfying an effective combinatorial property the Hodge conjecture holds. This gives a connection between the Oda conjecture and Hodge conjecture. We also give an explicit criterion which depends on the degree for very general hypersurfaces for the combinatorial condition to be verified.

This note adapts the sophisticated Richberg technique for approximation in pluripotential theory to the $F$-potential theory associated to a general nonlinear convex subequation $F \subset J^2 (X)$ on a manifold $X$. The main theorem is the following “local to global” result. Suppose $u$ is a continuous strictly $F$-subharmonic function such that each point $x \in X$ has a fundamental neighborhood

A smooth curve $\gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,n}$ is isotropic if $\gamma , \gamma_x, \dotsc , \gamma^{(2n)}_x$ are linearly independent and the span of $\gamma , \gamma_x, \dotsc , \gamma^{(n−1)}_x$ is isotropic. We construct two hierarchies of isotropic curve flows on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,n}$, whose differential invariants are solutions of Drinfeld–Sokolov’s KdV type soliton hierarchies associated to the

We study analytic properties of harmonic maps from Riemannian polyhedra into $\operatorname{CAT}(\kappa)$ spaces for $\kappa \in {\lbrace 0, 1 \rbrace}$. Locally, on each top-dimensional face of the domain, this amounts to studying harmonic maps from smooth domains into $\operatorname{CAT}(\kappa)$ spaces. We compute a target variation formula that captures the curvature bound in the target, and use

We provide sufficient conditions on an initial curve for the area preserving and the length preserving curvature flows of curves in a plane, to develop a singularity at some finite time or converge to an $m$-fold circle as time goes to infinity. For the area-preserving flow, the positivity of the enclosed algebraic area determines whether the curvature blows up in finite time or not, while for the

We examine Higgs bundles for non-compact real forms of $SO(4,\mathbb{C})$ and the isogenous complex group $SL(2,\mathbb{C}) \times SL(2,\mathbb{C})$. This involves a study of non-regular fibers in the corresponding Hitchin fibrations and provides interesting examples of non-abelian spectral data.

We describe the invariant metrics on real flag manifolds and classify those with the following property: every geodesic is the orbit of a one-parameter subgroup. Such a metric is called g.o. (geodesic orbit). In contrast to the complex case, on real flag manifolds the isotropy representation can have equivalent submodules, which makes invariant metrics depend on more parameters and allows us to find

Counter-examples to the famous conjecture of Carathéodory, as well as the bound on umbilic index proposed by Hamburger, are constructed with respect to Riemannian metrics that are arbitrarily close to the flat metric on Euclidean $3$-space. In particular, Riemannian metrics with a smooth strictly convex $2$-sphere containing a single umbilic point are constructed explicitly, in contradiction with any

For any elliptic K3 surface $\mathfrak{F} : \mathcal{K} \to \mathbb{P}^1$, we construct a family of collapsing Ricci-flat Kähler metrics such that curvatures are uniformly bounded away from singular fibers, and which Gromov–Hausdorff limit to $\mathbb{P}^1$ equipped with the McLean metric. There are well-known examples of this type of collapsing, but the key point of our construction is that we can

This article considers the quasi-local conserved quantities with respect to a reference spacetime with a cosmological constant. We follow the approach developed by the authors in [7, 26, 27] and define the quasi-local energy as differences of surface Hamiltonians. The ground state for the gravitational energy is taken to be a reference configuration in the de Sitter (dS) or Anti‑de Sitter (AdS) spacetime

We prove nonlinear stability for a large class of solutions to the Einstein equations with a positive cosmological constant and compact spatial topology in arbitrary dimensions, where the spatial metric is Einstein with either positive or negative Einstein constant. The proof uses the CMC Einstein flow and stability follows by an energy argument.We prove in addition that the development of non-CMC

We show existence and we give a geometric characterization of isoperimetric regions for large volumes, in $C^2$-locally asymptotically Euclidean Riemannian manifolds with a finite number of $C^0$-asymptotically Schwarzschild ends. This work extends previous results contained in [EM13b], [EM13a], and [BE13]. Moreover strengthening a little bit the speed of convergence to the Schwarzschild metric we

The various scalar curvatures on an almost Hermitian manifold are studied, in particular with respect to conformal variations. We show several integrability theorems, which state that two of these can only agree in the Kähler case. Our main question is the existence of almost Kähler metrics with conformally constant Chern scalar curvature. This problem is completely solved for ruled manifolds and in

A slope $p/q$ is a characterizing slope for a knot $K$ in $S^3$ if the oriented homeomorphism type of $p/q$-surgery on $K$ determines $K$ uniquely. We show that for each torus knot its set of characterizing slopes contains all but finitely many non-integer slopes. This generalizes work of Ni and Zhang who established such a result for $T_{5,2}$. Along the way we show that if two knots $K$ and $K^\prime$

We consider solutions $(M, g(t)), 0 \leq t \lt T$, to Ricci flow on compact, connected four dimensional manifolds without boundary. We assume that the scalar curvature is bounded uniformly, and that $T \lt \infty$. In this case, we show that the metric space $(M, d(t))$ associated to $(M, g(t))$ converges uniformly in the $C^0$ sense to $(X, d)$, as $t \nearrow T$, where $(X, d)$ is a $C^0$ Riemannian

Seven years after the publication of “Smooth convergence away from singular sets” [Communications in Analysis and Geometry 21 (2013), no. 1, 39‑104], Brian Allen discovered a counter example to the published statement of Theorem 1.3. Note that Theorem 4.6 (which is the key theorem cited in other papers) remains correct. We have added an hypothesis to correct the statement of Theorem 1.3 and its consequences

In this paper, we introduce a geometric flow for Kähler metrics $\omega_t$ coupled with closed $(1,1)$‑forms $\alpha_t$ on a compact Kähler manifold, whose stationary solution is a constant scalar curvature Kähler (cscK) metric, coupled with a harmonic $(1,1)$‑form. We establish the long-time existence, i.e., assuming the initial $(1,1)$‑form $\alpha$ is nonnegative, then the flow exists as long as

Let $E = \mathbb{C} / \Lambda$ be a flat torus and $G$ be its Green function with singularity at $0$. Consider the multiple Green function $G_n$ on $E^n$:\[G_n (z_1, \dotsc , z_n) := \sum_{i \lt j} G (z_i - z_j) - n \sum^n_{i=1} G (z_i) \: \textrm{.}\]A critical point $a = (a_1, \dotsc , a_n)$ of $G_n$ is called trivial if $\lbrace a_1, \dotsc , a_n \rbrace = \lbrace -a_1, \dotsc , -a_n \rbrace$. For

In the last 15 years, the series of works of White and Huisken–Sinestrari yield that the blowup limits at singularities are convex for the mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces. In 1998 Smoczyk [20] showed that, among others, the blowup limits at singularities are convex for the mean curvature flow starting from a closed star-shaped surface in $\mathbf{R}^3$.We prove in this paper that this

We obtain an upper bound for the Morse index of Willmore spheres $\Sigma \subset S^3$ coming from an immersion of $S^2$. The quantization of Willmore energy, which is a consequence of the classification of Willmore spheres in $S^3$ by Robert Bryant, shows that there exists an integer $m$ such that $\mathscr{W} (\Sigma) = 4 \pi m$. We show that the Morse index $\operatorname{Ind}_\mathscr{W} (\Sigma)$

We give a detailed account of the gauge-theoretic approach to Lie applicable surfaces and the resulting transformation theory. In particular, we show that this approach coincides with the classical notion of $\Omega$‑ and $\Omega$‑surfaces of Demoulin.

We consider a variational problem of $p$-elastic curves in two-dimensional sphere. We give its first variation formula, and in two-dimensional sphere, we give a realization of a solution which satisfies that the first variation formula is zero. We also show the existence of a flat-core, closed $p$-elastic curve.

We consider the deformation theory of asymptotically conical (AC) and of conically singular (CS) $\mathrm{G}_2$ manifolds. In the AC case, we show that if the rate of convergence ν to the cone at infinity is generic in a precise sense and lies in the interval $(-4, 0)$, then the moduli space is smooth and we compute its dimension in terms of topological and analytic data. For generic rates $\nu \lt

We refine some classical estimates in Seiberg–Witten theory, and discuss an application to the spectral geometry of three-manifolds. We show that for any Riemannian metric on a rational homology three-sphere $Y$, the first eigenvalue of the Hodge Laplacian on coexact one-forms is bounded above explicitly in terms of the Ricci curvature, provided that $Y$ is not an $L$-space (in the sense of Floer homology)

We prove that the Ricci flow that contracts a hyperbolic cusp has curvature decay $\operatorname{max} K \sim \frac{1}{t^2}$. In order to do this, we prove a new Li–Yau type differential Harnack inequality for Ricci flow.

It is known that the almost-Kähler anti-self-dual metrics on a given $4$-manifold sweep out an open subset in the moduli space of antiself- dual metrics. However, we show here by example that this subset is not generally closed, and so need not sweep out entire connected components in the moduli space. Our construction hinges on an unexpected link between harmonic functions on certain hyperbolic $3$-manifolds

Let $\varphi \in C^0 \cap W_{1,2} (\Sigma, X)$ where $\Sigma$ is a compact Riemann surface, $X$ is a compact locally CAT(1) space, and $W_{1,2} (\Sigma, X)$ is defined as in Korevaar–Schoen. We use the technique of harmonic replacement to prove that either there exists a harmonic map $u : \Sigma \to X$ homotopic to $\varphi$ or there exists a nontrivial conformal harmonic map $v : \mathbb{S}^2 \to

Let $K$ be a compact Lie group and fix an invariant inner product on its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{k}$. Given a Hamiltonian action of $K$ on a compact symplectic manifold $X$ with moment map $\mu : X \to \mathfrak{k}^\ast$, the normsquare ${\lVert \mu \rVert}^2$ of $\mu$ defines a Morse stratification $\lbrace S_\beta : \beta \in \mathcal{B} \rbrace$ of $X$ by locally closed symplectic submanifolds of

It is conjectured that the coefficients of the Jones polynomial can be computed by counting solutions of the KW equations on a fourdimensional half-space, with certain boundary conditions that depend on a knot. The boundary conditions are defined by a “Nahm pole” away from the knot with a further singularity along the knot. In a previous paper, we gave a precise formulation of the Nahm pole boundary

We study nonlinear wave equations on $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ with quadratic derivative nonlinearities, which include in particular nonlinearities exhibiting a null form structure, with random initial data in $H^1_x \times L^2_x$. In contrast to the counterexamples of Zhou [73] and Foschi–Klainerman [23], we obtain a uniform time interval $I$ on which the Picard iterates of all orders are almost surely bounded

In this article we discuss our ongoing program to extend the scope of certain, well-developed microlocal methods for the asymptotic solution of Schrödinger’s equation (for suitable ‘nonlinear oscillatory’ quantum mechanical systems) to the treatment of several physically significant, interacting quantum field theories. Our main focus is on applying these ‘Euclidean-signature semi-classical’ methods