Closed 1-forms with at most one zero

We prove that in any nonzero cohomology class ξ∈H¹(M;R) there always exists a closed 1-form having at most one zero.     

The realization of Smale solenoid type attractors in 3-manifolds

We study how to realize Smale solenoid type attractors in 3-manifolds. It is already known that we can restrict the 3-manifolds to lens spaces. We get all Smale solenoids realized in a given lens space through an inductive construction. We turn this around to address the question of how to decide whether a closed braid is a trivial knot in S³. For a diffeomorphism f of a 3-manifold M that realizes a Smale solenoid, it is natural to ask whether f⁻¹ also realizes a Smale solenoid. We relate this question to exchangeable braids, and for some special positive case, we describe the relation between the two Smale solenoids of f and f⁻¹.     

Surgery and equivariant Yamabe invariant

We consider the equivariant Yamabe problem, i.e., the Yamabe problem on the space of G-invariant metrics for a compact Lie group G. The G-Yamabe invariant is analogously defined as the supremum of the constant scalar curvatures of unit volume G-invariant metrics minimizing the total scalar curvature functional in their G-invariant conformal subclasses. We prove a formula about how the G-Yamabe invariant changes under the surgery of codimension 3 or more, and compute some G-Yamabe invariants.     

A note on a global invertibility of mappings on Rn

We provide sufficient conditions for a mapping f : Rⁿ → Rⁿ to be a global di?eomorphism in case f need not be continuously di?erentiable. Instead it is assumed to be strictly (Hadamard-like) and Fréchet di?erentiable. We use classical local invertibility conditions together with the non-smooth critical point theory.     

The elliptic genus on non-spin even 4-manifolds

We prove the rigidity under circle actions of the elliptic genus on oriented non-spin closed smooth 4-manifolds with even intersection form.     

An α-approximation theorem for Q∞-manifolds

Given a Q^∞-manifold M and an open cover α of M, there is an open cover β of M such that every β-equivalence from a Q^∞-manifold N to M is α-close to a homeomorphism. Consequently, every Q^∞-deficient subset in a C^∞-manifold M is strongly negligible in M.     

Generalized Dirichlet to Neumann operator on invariant differential forms and equivariant cohomology

In recent work, Belishev and Sharafutdinov show that the generalized Dirichlet to Neumann (DN) operator Λ on a compact Riemannian manifold M with boundary ∂M determines de Rham cohomology groups of M. In this paper, we suppose G is a torus acting by isometries on M. Given X in the Lie algebra of G and the corresponding vector field XM on M, Witten defines an inhomogeneous coboundary operator dXM=d+ιXM on invariant forms on M. The main purpose is to adapt Belishev-Sharafutdinov?s boundary data to invariant forms in terms of the operator dXM in order to investigate to what extent the equivariant topology of a manifold is determined by the corresponding variant of the DN map. We define an operator ΛXM on invariant forms on the boundary which we call the XM-DN map and using this we recover the XM-cohomology groups from the generalized boundary data (∂M,ΛXM). This shows that for a Zariski-open subset of the Lie algebra, ΛXM determines the free part of the relative and absolute equivariant cohomology groups of M. In addition, we partially determine the ring structure of XM-cohomology groups from ΛXM. These results explain to what extent the equivariant topology of the manifold in question is determined by ΛXM.     

Surgery on 3-manifolds with \mathbb{S} 1-actions

We study the topological structure of all 3-manifolds obtained by surgery along principal fibers of a closed orientable -manifold. As a consequence, we give alternative proofs of some classical results due to W. Heil and L. Moser. Moreover, we completely specify the Seifert invariants for the considered manifolds. Finally we classify the manifolds obtained by surgery along certain Seifert links and determine geometric presentations of their fundamental groups.Work performed under the auspices of C.N.R. (National Research Council) of Italy and partially supported by Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica within the projects Geometria Reale e Complessa and Topologia.     

Branched spines and contact structures on 3-manifolds

We introduce and analyze the characteristic foliation induced by a contact structure on a branched surface, in particular a branched standard spine of a 3-manifold. We extend to (fairly general) singular foliations of branched surfaces the local existence and uniqueness results which hold for genuine surfaces. Moreover we show that global uniqueness holds when restricting to tight structures. We establish branched versions of the elimination lemma. We prove a smooth version of the Gillman-Rolfsen PL-embedding theorem, deducing that branched spines can be used to construct contact structures in a given homotopy class of plane fields. Entrata in Redazione il 6 novembre 1998.     

A topological minorization for the volume of vector fields on 5-manifolds

A vector field X on a Riemannian manifold determines a submanifold in the tangent bundle. The volume of X is the volume of this submanifold for the induced Sasaki metric. When M is compact, the volume is well defined and, usually, this functional is studied for unit fields. Parallel vector fields are trivial minima of this functional.For manifolds of dimension 5, we obtain an explicit result showing how the topology of a vector field with constant length influences its volume. We apply this result to the case of vector fields that define Riemannian foliations with all leaves compact.Received: 29 April 2004     

A spanning tree cohomology theory for links

In their recent preprint, Baldwin, Ozsváth and Szabó defined a twisted version (with coefficients in a Novikov ring) of a spectral sequence, previously defined by Ozsváth and Szabó, from Khovanov homology to Heegaard–Floer homology of the branched double cover along a link. In their preprint, they give a combinatorial interpretation of the _E3$E_3$-term of their spectral sequence. The main purpose of the present paper is to prove directly that this _E3$E_3$-term is a link invariant. We also give some concrete examples of computation of the invariant.     

Analogies between group actions on 3-manifolds and number fields

Let a cyclic group $G$ act either on a number field $\mathbb L$ or on a $3$-manifold $M$. Let $s_{\mathbb L}$ be the number of ramified primes in the extension $\mathbb L^G\subset \mathbb L$ and $s_M$ be the number of components of the branching set of the branched covering $M\to M/G$. In this paper, we prove several formulas relating $s_{\mathbb L}$ and $s_M$ to the induced $G$-action on $Cl(\mathbb L)$ and $H_1(M),$ respectively. We observe that the formulas for $3$-manifolds and number fields are almost identical, and therefore, they provide new evidence for the correspondence between $3$-manifolds and number fields postulated in arithmetic topology.     

Submersions on open symplectic manifolds

Let M be an open manifold with a symplectic form Ω, and N a manifold with dimN<dimM. We prove that submersions with symplectic fibres satisfy the h-principle. Such submersions define Dirac manifold structures on the given manifold. As an application to this result we show that CPn?CPk−1 admits a submersion into R2(2k−n) with symplectic fibres for n/2<k?n.     

3-manifolds whose universal coverings are Lie groups

We classify those closed 3-manifolds whose universal covering space naturally admits the structure of a Lie group     

Symplectic Yang–Mills theory,Ricci tensor,and connections

A Yang–Mills theory in a purely symplectic framework is developed. The corresponding Euler–Lagrange equations are derived and first integrals are given. We relate the results to the work of Bourgeois and Cahen on preferred symplectic connections.     

Homologically versus homotopically area minimizing surfaces in 3-manifolds

We construct a Riemannian metric on the 3-torus such that no closed surface minimizing area in its homology class is incompressible, i.e., each such surface is of genus greater than one. In particular, for such a Riemannian metric, the homotopically area minimizing 2-tori constructed in [5] do not minimize area in their homology classes. The example is easily generalized to arbitrary 3-manifolds. The constructed Riemannian metric can be chosen to be conformally equivalent to any arbitrary given one. Received September 4, 1998 / Accepted October 23, 1998     

The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for vector bundles

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle E of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold M. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special case when M is a Riemannian manifold and E is the tangent bundle of M endowed with the Levi-Civita connection. The proof is based on an explicit geometric construction of the Thom class for 2-plane bundles. Dedicated to the memory of Philip Bell Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9703852.