On submanifolds whose tubular hypersurfaces have constant higher order mean curvatures

Motivated by the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces,we study submanifolds whose tubular hypersurfaces have some constant higher order mean curvatures.Here a k-th order mean curvature Q_k~v(k ≥ 1) of a submanifold M~n-is defined as the k-th power sum of the principal curvatures,or equivalently,of the shape operator with respect to the unit normal vector v.We show that if all nearby tubular hypersurfaces of M have some constant higher order mean curvatures,then the submanifold M itself has some constant higher order mean curvatures Q_k~v independent of the choice of v.Many identities involving higher order mean curvatures and Jacobi operators on such submanifolds are also obtained.In particular,we generalize several classical results in isoparametric theory given by E.Cartan,K.Nomizu,H.F.Miinzner,Q.M.Wang,et al.As an application,we finally get a geometrical filtration for the focal submanifolds of isoparametric functions on a complete Riemannian manifold.     

On compact splitting complex submanifolds of quotients of bounded symmetric domains

We study compact complex submanifolds S of quotient manifolds X = ?/Γ of irreducible bounded symmetric domains by torsion free discrete lattices of automorphisms, and we are interested in the characterization of the totally geodesic submanifolds among compact splitting complex submanifolds S ? X, i.e., under the assumption that the tangent sequence over S splits holomorphically. We prove results of two types. The first type of results concerns S ? X which are characteristic complex submanifolds, i.e., embedding ? as an open subset of its compact dual manifold M by means of the Borel embedding, the non-zero(1, 0)-vectors tangent to S lift under a local inverse of the universal covering map π : ? → X to minimal rational tangents of M.We prove that a compact characteristic complex submanifold S ? X is necessarily totally geodesic whenever S is a splitting complex submanifold. Our proof generalizes the case of the characterization of totally geodesic complex submanifolds of quotients of the complex unit ball Bnobtained by Mok(2005). The proof given here is however new and it is based on a monotonic property of curvatures of Hermitian holomorphic vector subbundles of Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles and on exploiting the splitting of the tangent sequence to identify the holomorphic tangent bundle TSas a quotient bundle rather than as a subbundle of the restriction of the holomorphic tangent bundle TXto S. The second type of results concerns characterization of total geodesic submanifolds among compact splitting complex submanifolds S ? X deduced from the results of Aubin(1978)and Yau(1978) which imply the existence of K¨ahler-Einstein metrics on S ? X. We prove that compact splitting complex submanifolds S ? X of sufficiently large dimension(depending on ?) are necessarily totally geodesic. The proof relies on the Hermitian-Einstein property of holomorphic vector bundles associated to TS,which implies that endomorphisms of such bundles are parallel, and the construction of endomorphisms of these vector bundles by means of the splitting of the tangent sequence on S. We conclude with conjectures on the sharp lower bound on dim(S) guaranteeing total geodesy of S ? X for the case of the type-I domains of rank2 and the case of type-IV domains, and examine a case which is critical for both conjectures, i.e., on compact complex surfaces of quotients of the 4-dimensional Lie ball, equivalently the 4-dimensional type-I domain dual to the Grassmannian of 2-planes in C~4.     

Intrinsic derivative,curvature estimates and squeezing function

This survey paper consists of two folds. First of all, we recall the concept of intrinsic derivative which was introduced by Lu(1979) and the related works due to Lu in his last ten years, including the holomorphically isometric embedding into the infinite dimensional Grassmann manifold and the Bergman curvature estimates for bounded domains in C~n. Inspired by Lu's idea, we give the lower and upper bounds estimates for the Bergman curvatures in terms of the squeezing function—one concept originally introduced by Deng et al.(2012).Finally, we survey some recent progress on the asymptotic behaviors for Bergman curvatures near the strictly pseudoconvex boundary points and present some open problems on the squeezing functions of bounded domains in C~n.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Fundamental tone estimates of submanifolds with bounded mean curvature

In this paper, we estimate the p-fundamental tone of submanifolds in a Cartan–Hadamard manifold. First, we obtain lower bounds for the p-fundamental tone of geodesic balls and submanifolds with bounded mean curvature. Moreover, we provide the p-fundamental tone estimates of minimal submanifolds with certain conditions on the norm of the second fundamental form. Finally, we study transversely oriented codimension-one \(C^2\)-foliations of open subsets \(\Omega \) of Riemannian manifolds M and obtain lower bound estimates for the infimum of the mean curvature of the leaves in terms of the p-fundamental tone of \(\Omega \).     

Isoperimetric Inequalities for Ramanujan Complexes and Topological Expanders

Expander graphs have been intensively studied in the last four decades (Hoory et al., Bull Am Math Soc, 43(4):439–562, 2006; Lubotzky, Bull Am MathSoc, 49:113–162, 2012). In recent years a high dimensional theory of expanders has emerged, and several variants have been studied. Among them stand out coboundary expansion and topological expansion. It is known that for every d there are unbounded degree simplicial complexes of dimension d with these properties. However, a major open problem, formulated by Gromov (Geom Funct Anal 20(2):416–526, 2010), is whether bounded degree high dimensional expanders exist for \({d \geq 2}\). We present an explicit construction of bounded degree complexes of dimension \({d = 2}\) which are topological expanders, thus answering Gromov’s question in the affirmative. Conditional on a conjecture of Serre on the congruence subgroup property, infinite sub-family of these give also a family of bounded degree coboundary expanders. The main technical tools are new isoperimetric inequalities for Ramanujan Complexes. We prove linear size bounds on \({\mathbb{F}_2}\) systolic invariants of these complexes, which seem to be the first linear \({\mathbb{F}_2}\) systolic bounds. The expansion results are deduced from these isoperimetric inequalities.     

Conical square function estimates and functional calculi for perturbed Hodge-Dirac operators in <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">P</Emphasis></Superscript>

Perturbed Hodge-Dirac operators and their holomorphic functional calculi, as investigated in the papers by Axelsson, Keith and the second author, provided insight into the solution of the Kato square-root problem for elliptic operators in L² spaces and allowed for an extension of these estimates to other systems with applications to non-smooth boundary value problems. In this paper, we determine conditions under which such operators satisfy conical square function estimates in a range of L ^p spaces, thus allowing us to apply the theory of Hardy spaces associated with an operator to prove that they have a bounded holomorphic functional calculus in those L ^p spaces. We also obtain functional calculus results for restrictions to certain subspaces, for a larger range of p. This provides a framework for obtaining L ^p results on perturbed Hodge Laplacians, generalising known Riesz transform bounds for an elliptic operator L with bounded measurable coefficients, one Sobolev exponent below the Hodge exponent, and L ^p bounds on the square-root of L by the gradient, two Sobolev exponents below the Hodge exponent. Our proof shows that the heart of the harmonic analysis in L² extends to L ^p for all p ∈ (1,∞), while the restrictions in p come from the operator-theoretic part of the L² proof. In the course of our work, we obtain some results of independent interest about singular integral operators on tent spaces and about the relationship between conical and vertical square functions.     

On the Monge–Ampère equation with boundary blow-up: existence,uniqueness and asymptotics

We consider the Monge–Ampère equation det D ² u = b(x)f(u) > 0 in Ω, subject to the singular boundary condition u = ∞ on ?Ω. We assume that \(b\in C^\infty(\overline{\Omega})\) is positive in Ω and non-negative on ?Ω. Under suitable conditions on f, we establish the existence of positive strictly convex solutions if Ω is a smooth strictly convex, bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^N\) with N ≥ 2. We give asymptotic estimates of the behaviour of such solutions near ?Ω and a uniqueness result when the variation of f at ∞ is regular of index q greater than N (that is, \(\lim_{u\to \infty} f(\lambda u)/f(u)=\lambda^q\) , for every λ > 0). Using regular variation theory, we treat both cases: b > 0 on ?Ω and \(b\equiv 0\) on ?Ω.     

Torsional Rigidity for Regions with a Brownian Boundary

Let ?? ^m be the m-dimensional unit torus, m ∈ ?. The torsional rigidity of an open set Ω ? ?? ^m is the integral with respect to Lebesgue measure over all starting points x ∈ Ω of the expected lifetime in Ω of a Brownian motion starting at x. In this paper we consider Ω = ?? ^m \β[0, t], the complement of the path ß[0, t] of an independent Brownian motion up to time t. We compute the leading order asymptotic behaviour of the expectation of the torsional rigidity in the limit as t → ∞. For m = 2 the main contribution comes from the components in ??²\β0, t] whose inradius is comparable to the largest inradius, while for m = 3 most of ??³\β[0, t] contributes. A similar result holds for m ≥ 4 after the Brownian path is replaced by a shrinking Wiener sausage W _r(t)[0, t] of radius r(t) = o(t ^-1/(m-2)), provided the shrinking is slow enough to ensure that the torsional rigidity tends to zero. Asymptotic properties of the capacity of ß[0, t] in ?³ and W ₁[0, t] in ? ^m , m ≥ 4, play a central role throughout the paper. Our results contribute to a better understanding of the geometry of the complement of Brownian motion on ?? ^m , which has received a lot of attention in the literature in past years.     

Über das Schwarzsche Lemma und Verwandte Sätze

Upper bounds for the Jacobian determinant by holomorphic mappings of bounded domainsD into itself were given first more then thirty years ago by Stefan Bergman by means of his theory of the kernel function ofD. In this paper a different method shall be developed and distortion theorems for holomorphic mappings of bounded domains of a Kähler manifoldM ⁿ into a Kähler manifoldM ₀ ⁿ shall be proved. The special casesM ⁿ =C _n (unit sphere of C ⁿ ) andM ⁿ =M ₀ ⁿ =|C _n shall also be considered. The proof depends essentially on the two Hermitian quadratic forms corresponding to the metric and to the Ricci tensor. The manifolds must be of negative Ricci curvature and fulfil two conditions given in section 4.     

Configuration spaces,transfer, and 2-nodal solutions of a semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We establish new lower bounds for the number of nodal bound states for the semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equation \(-\varepsilon^2 \Delta u+ a(x)u=|u|^{p-2}u\) with bounded and uniformly continuous potential a. The solutions we obtain have precisely two nodal domains, and their positive and negative parts concentrate near the set of minimum points of a. Our approach is independent of penalization techniques and yields, in some cases, the existence of infinitely many nodal solutions for fixed \(\varepsilon\). Via a dynamical systems approach, we exhibit positively invariant sets of sign changing functions for the negative gradient flow of the associated energy functional. We analyze these sets on the cohomology level with the help of Dold’s fixed point transfer. In particular, we estimate their cuplength in terms of the cuplength of equivariant configuration spaces of subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^N\). We also provide new estimates of the cuplength of configuration spaces.     

Isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in the homogeneous nearly Kähler S<Superscript>3</Superscript> × S<Superscript>3</Superscript>

We show that isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in a 6-dimensional strict nearly Kähler manifold are totally geodesic. Moreover, under some weaker conditions, a complete classification of the J-isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in the homogeneous nearly Kähler S³ × S³ is also obtained. Here, a Lagrangian submanifold is called J-isotropic, if there exists a function λ, such that g((?h)(v, v, v), Jv) = λ holds for all unit tangent vector v.     

Liouville-type theorem for the drifting Laplacian operator

Given manifolds with a smooth measure (M, g, e ^?f dV), we consider gradient estimates for positive harmonic functions of the drifting Laplacian. If the ∞-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and \({|\nabla f|}\) is bounded, we obtain a Liouville-type theorem. This extends a classical result of Cheng and Yau.     

On the curve of critical exponents for nonlinear elliptic problems in the case of a zero mass

For semilinear elliptic equations ?Δu = λ|u| ^p?2 u?|u| ^q?2 u, boundary value problems in bounded and unbounded domains are considered. In the plane of exponents p × q, the so-called curves of critical exponents are defined that divide this plane into domains with qualitatively different properties of the boundary value problems and the corresponding parabolic equations. New solvability conditions for boundary value problems, conditions for the stability and instability of stationary solutions, and conditions for the existence of global solutions to parabolic equations are found.     

On Bounded Positive (m,p)-Circle Domains

Let D be a bounded positive (m, p)-circle domain in ?². The authors prove that if dim(Iso(D)⁰) = 2, then D is holomorphically equivalent to a Reinhardt domain; if dim(Iso(D)⁰) = 4, then D is holomorphically equivalent to the unit ball in ?². Moreover, the authors prove the Thullen’s classification on bounded Reinhardt domains in ?² by the Lie group technique.     

A note on uncountable groups with modular subgroup lattice

In this paper, we obtain a rigidity theorem by modifying Cheng–Yau’s technique to linear Weingarten submanifolds in the unit sphere S^n+p(1) with parallel normalized mean curvature vector. As a corollary, we have Theorem 1.3 in Guo and Li (Tohoku Math J 65:331–339, 2013) and Theorem 2 in Li (Math Ann 305:665–672, 1996).     

Homogenization of a variational inequality for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian in perforated media with nonlinear restrictions for the flux on the boundary of isoperimetric perforations: <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> equal to the dimension of the space

We address the homogenization of a variational inequality posed in perforated media issue from a unilateral problem for the p-Laplacian. We consider the n-Laplace operator in a perforated domain of ?ⁿ, n ≥ 3, with restrictions for the solution and its flux (the flux associated with the n-Laplacian) on the boundary of the perforations which are assumed to be isoperimetric. The solution is assumed to be positive on the boundary of the holes and the flux is bounded from above by a negative, nonlinear monotone function multiplied by a large parameter. A certain non periodical distribution of the perforations is allowed while the assumption that their size is much smaller than the periodicity scale is performed. We make it clear that in the average constants of the problem, the perimeter of the perforations appears for any shape.     

On Measure Contraction Property without Ricci Curvature Lower Bound

Measure contraction properties M C P (K, N) are synthetic Ricci curvature lower bounds for metric measure spaces which do not necessarily have smooth structures. It is known that if a Riemannian manifold has dimension N, then M C P (K, N) is equivalent to Ricci curvature bounded below by K. On the other hand, it was observed in Rifford (Math. Control Relat. Fields 3(4), 467–487 2013) that there is a family of left invariant metrics on the three dimensional Heisenberg group for which the Ricci curvature is not bounded below. Though this family of metric spaces equipped with the Harr measure satisfy M C P (0,5). In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for a 2n+1 dimensional weakly Sasakian manifold to satisfy M C P (0, 2n + 3). This extends the above mentioned result on the Heisenberg group in Rifford (Math. Control Relat. Fields 3(4), 467–487 2013).     

Viability property of jump diffusion processes on manifolds

In this note, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for viability property of diffusion processes with jumps on closed submanifolds of R ^m . Our result is the system is viable in a closed submanifold K iff the coefficients are tangent to K along K if the equation is in the sense of stratonovich integral and the solution jumps from K to K.     

Even factors with a bounded number of components in iterated line graphs

We consider even factors with a bounded number of components in the n-times iterated line graphs L ⁿ (G). We present a characterization of a simple graph G such that L ⁿ (G) has an even factor with at most k components, based on the existence of a certain type of subgraphs in G. Moreover, we use this result to give some upper bounds for the minimum number of components of even factors in L ⁿ (G) and also show that the minimum number of components of even factors in L ⁿ (G) is stable under the closure operation on a claw-free graph G, which extends some known results. Our results show that it seems to be NP-hard to determine the minimum number of components of even factors of iterated line graphs. We also propose some problems for further research.