Fractional Sobolev metrics on spaces of immersed curves

Motivated by applications in the field of shape analysis, we study reparametrization invariant, fractional order Sobolev-type metrics on the space of smooth regular curves \(\mathrm {Imm}(\mathrm {S}^{1},\mathbb {R}^d)\) and on its Sobolev completions \({\mathcal {I}}^{q}(\mathrm {S}^{1},{\mathbb {R}}^{d})\). We prove local well-posedness of the geodesic equations both on the Banach manifold \({\mathcal {I}}^{q}(\mathrm {S}^{1},{\mathbb {R}}^{d})\) and on the Fréchet-manifold \(\mathrm {Imm}(\mathrm {S}^{1},\mathbb {R}^d)\) provided the order of the metric is greater or equal to one. In addition we show that the \(H^s\)-metric induces a strong Riemannian metric on the Banach manifold \({\mathcal {I}}^{s}(\mathrm {S}^{1},{\mathbb {R}}^{d})\) of the same order s, provided \(s>\frac{3}{2}\). These investigations can be also interpreted as a generalization of the analysis for right invariant metrics on the diffeomorphism group.     

Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature \({\mathcal{K}}\) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is proved that such a surface in \({\mathbb{S}}^3\) must be part of a minimal surface in \({\mathbb{R}}^3\) or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) of constant \({\mathcal{K}}\) could only be part of a complex curve in \({\mathbb{C}}^2 \cong {\mathbb{R}}^4\) or the Veronese 2-sphere in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is conjectured that they are the only possible examples. The main ingredients of the proofs are over-determined systems and isoparametric functions.     

New Characterizations of the Clifford Torus as a Lagrangian Self-Shrinker

In this paper, we obtain several new characterizations of the Clifford torus as a Lagrangian self-shrinker. We first show that the Clifford torus \({\mathbb {S}}^1(1)\times {\mathbb {S}}^1(1)\) is the unique compact orientable Lagrangian self-shrinker in \({\mathbb {C}}^2\) with \(|A|^2\le 2\), which gives an affirmative answer to Castro–Lerma’s conjecture in Castro and Lerma (Int Math Res Not 6:1515–1527; 2014). We also prove that the Clifford torus is the unique compact orientable embedded Lagrangian self-shrinker with nonnegative or nonpositive Gauss curvature in \({\mathbb {C}}^2\).     

On height isotopy classes of embeddings in the plane of a Morse function of a circle

Let \(\mathrm{SM}_{2n}(S^1,\mathbb {R})\) be a set of stable Morse functions of an oriented circle such that the number of singular points is \(2n\in \mathbb {N}\) and the order of singular values satisfies the particular condition. For an orthogonal projection \(\pi :\mathbb {R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\), let \({\tilde{f}}_0\) and \({\tilde{f}}_1:S^1\rightarrow \mathbb {R}^2\) be embedding lifts of f. If there is an ambient isotopy \(\tilde{\varphi }_t:\mathbb {R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb {R}^2\) \((t\in [0,1])\) such that \({\pi \circ \tilde{\varphi }}_t(y_1,y_2)=y_1\) and \(\tilde{\varphi }_1\circ {\tilde{f}}_0={\tilde{f}}_1\), we say that \({\tilde{f}}_0\) and \({\tilde{f}}_1\) are height isotopic. We define a function \(I:\mathrm{SM}_{2n}(S^1,\mathbb {R})\rightarrow \mathbb {N}\) as follows: I(f) is the number of height isotopy classes of embeddings such that each rotation number is one. In this paper, we determine the maximal value of the function I equals the n-th Baxter number and the minimal value equals \(2^{n-1}\).     

Generalized Hénon Mappings and Foliation by Injective Brody Curves

We consider a finite composition of generalized Hénon mappings \({\mathfrak {f}}:{\mathbb {C}}^2\rightarrow {\mathbb {C}}^2\) and its Green function \({\mathfrak {g}}^+:{\mathbb {C}}^2\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}_{\ge 0}\) (see Sect. 2). It is well known that each level set \(\{{\mathfrak {g}}^+=c\}\) for \(c>0\) is foliated by biholomorphic images of \({\mathbb {C}}\) and each leaf is dense. In this paper, we prove that each leaf is actually an injective Brody curve in \(\mathbb {P}^2\) (see Sect. 4). We also study the behavior of the level sets of \({\mathfrak {g}}^+\) near infinity.     

Lie Algebras of Slow Growth and Klein-Gordon PDE

We discuss the notion of characteristic Lie algebra of a hyperbolic PDE. The integrability of a hyperbolic PDE is closely related to the properties of the corresponding characteristic Lie algebra χ. We establish two explicit isomorphisms:

1. 1)
   the first one is between the characteristic Lie algebra \(\chi (\sinh {u})\) of the sinh-Gordon equation \(u_{xy}=\sinh {u}\) and the non-negative part \({\mathcal {L}}({\mathfrak {sl}}(2,{\mathbb {C}}))^{\ge 0}\) of the loop algebra of \({\mathfrak {sl}}(2,{\mathbb {C}})\) that corresponds to the Kac-Moody algebra \(A_{1}^{(1)}\)

   $$\chi(\sinh{u})\cong {\mathcal{L}}({\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}}(2,{\mathbb{C}}))^{\ge 0}={\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}}(2, {\mathbb{C}}) \otimes {\mathbb{C}}[t]. $$
    
2. 2)
   the second isomorphism is for the Tzitzeica equation u_xy = e^u + e^??2u

   $$\chi(e^{u}{+}e^{-2u}) \cong {\mathcal{L}}({\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}}(3,{\mathbb{C}}), \mu)^{\ge0}=\bigoplus_{j = 0}^{+\infty}{\mathfrak{g}}_{j (\text{mod} \; 2)} \otimes t^{j}, $$

   where \({\mathcal {L}}({\mathfrak {sl}}(3,{\mathbb {C}}), \mu )=\bigoplus _{j \in {\mathbb {Z}}}{\mathfrak {g}}_{j (\text {mod} \; 2)} \otimes t^{j}\) is the twisted loop algebra of the simple Lie algebra \({\mathfrak {sl}}(3,{\mathbb {C}})\) that corresponds to the Kac-Moody algebra \(A_{2}^{(2)}\).
    

Hence the Lie algebras \(\chi (\sinh {u})\) and χ(e^u + e^??2u) are slowly linearly growing Lie algebras with average growth rates \(\frac {3}{2}\) and \(\frac {4}{3}\) respectively.     

Equilibrium Diffusion on the Cone of Discrete Radon Measures

Let \({\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})}\) denote the cone of discrete Radon measures on \(\mathbb {R}^{d}\). There is a natural differentiation on \(\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\): for a differentiable function \(F:\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\to \mathbb {R}\), one defines its gradient \(\nabla ^{\mathbb {K}}F\) as a vector field which assigns to each \(\eta \in \mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\) an element of a tangent space \(T_{\eta }(\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d}))\) to \(\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\) at point η. Let \(\phi :\mathbb {R}^{d}\times \mathbb {R}^{d}\to \mathbb {R}\) be a potential of pair interaction, and let μ be a corresponding Gibbs perturbation of (the distribution of) a completely random measure on \(\mathbb {R}^{d}\). In particular, μ is a probability measure on \(\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\) such that the set of atoms of a discrete measure \(\eta \in \mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\) is μ-a.s. dense in \(\mathbb {R}^{d}\). We consider the corresponding Dirichlet form

$$\mathcal{E}^{\mathbb{K}}(F,G)={\int}_{\mathbb K(\mathbb{R}^{d})}\langle\nabla^{\mathbb{K}} F(\eta), \nabla^{\mathbb{K}} G(\eta)\rangle_{T_{\eta}(\mathbb{K})}\,d\mu(\eta). $$

Integrating by parts with respect to the measure μ, we explicitly find the generator of this Dirichlet form. By using the theory of Dirichlet forms, we prove the main result of the paper: If d ≥ 2, there exists a conservative diffusion process on \(\mathbb {K}(\mathbb {R}^{d})\) which is properly associated with the Dirichlet form \(\mathcal {E}^{\mathbb {K}}\).

     

The $${\textit{SU}}(2)$$-character variety of the closed surface of genus 2

We study the symplectic geometry of the \({\text {SU}}(2)\)-representation variety of the compact oriented surface of genus 2. We use the Goldman flows to identify subsets of the moduli space with corresponding subsets of \({\mathbb {P}}^3(\mathbb {C})\). We also define and study two antisymplectic involutions on the moduli space and their fixed point sets.     

Hypersurfaces in nearly Kaehler manifold $$\pmb {\mathbb {S}}^{\varvec{3}}\varvec{\times } \pmb {\mathbb {S}}^{\varvec{3}}$$

In this paper, we initiate the study of contact and minimal hypersurfaces in nearly Kaehler manifold \({\mathbb {S}}^3\times {\mathbb {S}}^3\) with a conformal vector field. There are three almost contact metric structures on a hypersurface of \({\mathbb {S}}^3\times {\mathbb {S}}^3\), and we will give some important properties of them. Besides, we study the influence of the conformal vector field on the almost contact metric structures and use it to characterize the hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb {S}}^3\times {\mathbb {S}}^3\).     

Why there is no an existence theorem for a convex polytope with prescribed directions and perimeters of the faces?

We choose some special unit vectors \({\mathbf {n}}_1,\ldots ,{\mathbf {n}}_5\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^3\) and denote by \({\mathscr {L}}\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) the set of all points \((L_1,\ldots ,L_5)\in {\mathbb {R}}^5\) with the following property: there exists a compact convex polytope \(P\subset {\mathbb {R}}^3\) such that the vectors \({\mathbf {n}}_1,\ldots ,{\mathbf {n}}_5\) (and no other vector) are unit outward normals to the faces of P and the perimeter of the face with the outward normal \({\mathbf {n}}_k\) is equal to \(L_k\) for all \(k=1,\ldots ,5\). Our main result reads that \({\mathscr {L}}\) is not a locally-analytic set, i.e., we prove that, for some point \((L_1,\ldots ,L_5)\in {\mathscr {L}}\), it is not possible to find a neighborhood \(U\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) and an analytic set \(A\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) such that \({\mathscr {L}}\cap U=A\cap U\). We interpret this result as an obstacle for finding an existence theorem for a compact convex polytope with prescribed directions and perimeters of the faces.     

A new generalization of Hermite’s reciprocity law

Given a partition \(\lambda \) of n, the Schur functor \({\mathbb {S}}_\lambda \) associates to any complex vector space V, a subspace \({\mathbb {S}}_\lambda (V)\) of \(V^{\otimes n}\). Hermite’s reciprocity law, in terms of the Schur functor, states that \({\mathbb {S}}_{(p)}\left( {\mathbb {S}}_{(q)}({\mathbb {C}}^2)\right) \simeq {\mathbb {S}}_{(q)}\left( {\mathbb {S}}_{(p)}({\mathbb {C}}^2)\right) . \) We extend this identity to many other identities of the type \({\mathbb {S}}_{\lambda }\left( {\mathbb {S}}_{\delta }({\mathbb {C}}^2)\right) \simeq {\mathbb {S}}_{\mu }\left( {\mathbb {S}}_{\epsilon }({\mathbb {C}}^2)\right) \).     

On the connectedness of the set of Riemann surfaces with real moduli

The moduli space \({\mathcal {M}}_{g}\), of genus \(g\ge 2\) closed Riemann surfaces, is a complex orbifold of dimension \(3(g-1)\) which carries a natural real structure, i.e. it admits an anti-holomorphic involution \(\sigma \). The involution \(\sigma \) maps each point corresponding to a Riemann surface S to its complex conjugate \(\overline{S}\). The fixed point set of \(\sigma \) consists of the isomorphism classes of closed Riemann surfaces admitting an anticonformal automorphism. Inside \(\mathrm {Fix}(\sigma )\) is the locus \({\mathcal {M}}_{g}(\mathbb {R})\), the set of real Riemann surfaces, which is known to be connected by results due to P. Buser, M. Seppälä, and R. Silhol. The complement \(\mathrm {Fix}(\sigma )-{\mathcal {M}}_{g}(\mathbb {R})\) consists of the so called pseudo-real Riemann surfaces, which is known to be non-connected. In this short note we provide a simple argument to observe that \(\mathrm {Fix}(\sigma )\) is connected.     

On the classification of 4-dimensional $$(m,\rho )$$-quasi-Einstein manifolds with harmonic Weyl curvature

In this paper we study four-dimensional \((m,\rho )\)-quasi-Einstein manifolds with harmonic Weyl curvature when \(m\notin \{0,\pm 1,-2,\pm \infty \}\) and \(\rho \notin \{\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{6}\}\). We prove that a non-trivial \((m,\rho )\)-quasi-Einstein metric g (not necessarily complete) is locally isometric to one of the following: (i) \({\mathcal {B}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\times {\mathbb {N}}^2_\frac{R(m+1)}{2(m+2)}\), where \({\mathcal {B}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\) is the northern hemisphere in the two-dimensional (2D) sphere \({\mathbb {S}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\), \({\mathbb {N}}_\delta \) is a 2D Riemannian manifold with constant curvature \(\delta \), and R is the constant scalar curvature of g. (ii) \({\mathcal {D}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\times {\mathbb {N}}^2_\frac{R(m+1)}{2(m+2)}\), where \({\mathcal {D}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\) is half (cut by a hyperbolic line) of hyperbolic plane \({\mathbb {H}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\). (iii) \({\mathbb {H}}^2_\frac{R}{2(m+2)}\times {\mathbb {N}}^2_\frac{R(m+1)}{2(m+2)}\). (iv) A certain singular metric with \(\rho =0\). (v) A locally conformal flat metric. By applying this local classification, we obtain a classification of the complete \((m,\rho )\)-quasi-Einstein manifolds given the condition of a harmonic Weyl curvature. Our result can be viewed as a local classification of gradient Einstein-type manifolds. A corollary of our result is the classification of \((\lambda ,4+m)\)-Einstein manifolds, which can be viewed as (m, 0)-quasi-Einstein manifolds.     

Magnetic Trajectories in an Almost Contact Metric Manifold $${\mathbb{R}^{2N+1}}$$

In this paper we classify magnetic trajectories γ in \({{\mathbb{R}}^{2N+1}}\) endowed with a canonical quasi-Sasakian structure, corresponding to a magnetic field proportional to the fundamental 2-form. We prove that they are helices of order 5 and we show that there exists a totally geodesic \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\) in \({\mathbb{R}^{2N+1}}\) such that γ lies in \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\). Moreover, the quasi-Sasakian structure of \({{\mathbb{R}}^5}\) is that induced from the ambient manifold.     

A Short Proof of the Large Time Energy Growth for the Boussinesq System

We give a direct proof of the fact that the \(L^p\)-norms of global solutions of the Boussinesq system in \({\mathbb {R}}^3\) grow large as \(t\rightarrow \infty \) for \(1<p<3\) and decay to zero for \(3<p\le \infty \), providing exact estimates from below and above using a suitable decomposition of the space–time space \({\mathbb {R}}^{+}\times {\mathbb {R}}^{3}\). In particular, the kinetic energy blows up as \(\Vert u(t)\Vert _2^2\sim ct^{1/2}\) for large time. This contrasts with the case of the Navier–Stokes equations.     

Endpoint Properties of Localized Riesz Transforms and Fractional Integrals Associated to Schrödinger Operators

Let \({\mathcal L}\equiv-\Delta+V\) be the Schrödinger operator in \({{\mathbb R}^n}\), where V is a nonnegative function satisfying the reverse Hölder inequality. Let ρ be an admissible function modeled on the known auxiliary function determined by V. In this paper, the authors characterize the localized Hardy spaces \(H^1_\rho({{\mathbb R}^n})\) in terms of localized Riesz transforms and establish the boundedness on the BMO-type space \({\mathop\mathrm{BMO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) of these operators as well as the boundedness from \({\mathop\mathrm{BMO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) to \({\mathop\mathrm{BLO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) of their corresponding maximal operators, and as a consequence, the authors obtain the Fefferman–Stein decomposition of \({\mathop\mathrm{BMO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) via localized Riesz transforms. When ρ is the known auxiliary function determined by V, \({\mathop\mathrm{BMO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) is just the known space \(\mathop\mathrm{BMO}_{\mathcal L}({{\mathbb R}^n})\), and \({\mathop\mathrm{BLO_\rho({\mathbb R}^n)}}\) in this case is correspondingly denoted by \(\mathop\mathrm{BLO}_{\mathcal L}({{\mathbb R}^n})\). As applications, when n?≥?3, the authors further obtain the boundedness on \(\mathop\mathrm{BMO}_{\mathcal L}({{\mathbb R}^n})\) of Riesz transforms \(\nabla{\mathcal L}^{-1/2}\) and their adjoint operators, as well as the boundedness from \(\mathop\mathrm{BMO}_{\mathcal L}({{\mathbb R}^n})\) to \(\mathop\mathrm{BLO}_{\mathcal L}({{\mathbb R}^n})\) of their maximal operators. Also, some endpoint estimates of fractional integrals associated to \({\mathcal L}\) are presented.     

Riesz Transform Characterizations of Hardy Spaces Associated to Degenerate Elliptic Operators

Let \({L_{w}}{:=-w^{-1}{\rm div}(A\nabla)}\) be the degenerate elliptic operator on the Euclidean space \({{\mathbb{R}^{n}}}\), where w is a Muckenhoupt \({A_{2}({\mathbb{R}^{n}})}\) weight. In this article, the authors establish the Riesz transform characterization of the Hardy space \({H^{p}_{L_{w}}({\mathbb{R}}^{n})}\) associated with L_w, for \({w \in A_{q}({\mathbb{R}}^{n}) \cap RH_{\frac{n}{n-2}}({\mathbb{R}^{n}})}\) with \({n \geq 3}\), \({q \in [1,2]}\) and \({p \in (q(\frac{1}{r}+\frac{q-1}{2}+\frac{1}{n})^{-1},1]}\) if, for some \({r \in (1,\,2]}\), \({{\{tL_w e^{-tL_w}\}}_{t\geq 0}}\) satisfies the weighted \({L^{r}-L^{2}}\) full off-diagonal estimates.