Real hypersurfaces of a complex projective space

In this paper, we classify real hypersurfaces in the complex projective space C P^\fracn+12C P^{\frac{n+1}{2}} whose structure vector field is a φ-analytic vector field (a notion similar to analytic vector fields on complex manifolds). We also define Jacobi-type vector fields on a Riemannian manifold and classify real hypersurfaces whose structure vector field is a Jacobi-type vector field.     

On the geometry of model almost complex manifolds with boundary

We study some special almost complex structures on strictly pseudoconvex domains in ℝ^{2 n} . They appear naturally as limits under a nonisotropic scaling procedure and play a role of model objects in the geometry of almost complex manifolds with boundary. We determine explicitely some geometric invariants of these model structures and derive necessary and sufficient conditions for their integrability. As applications we prove a boundary extension and a compactness principle for some elliptic diffeomorphisms between relatively compact domains.     

Homotopy Decompositions and K-Theory of Bott Towers

We describe Bott towers as sequences of toric manifolds M^k, and identify the omniorientations which correspond to their original construction as complex varieties. We show that the suspension of M^k is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of Thom complexes, and display its complex K-theory as an algebra over the coefficient ring. We extend the results to KO-theory for several families of examples, and compute the effects of the realification homomorphism; these calculations breathe geometric life into Bahri and Benderskys analysis of the Adams Spectral Sequence [Bahri, A. and Bendersky, M.: The KO-theory of toric manifolds. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 1191–1202.] By way of application we consider the enumeration of stably complex structures on M^k, obtaining estimates for those which arise from omniorientations and those which are almost complex. We conclude with observations on the rôle of Bott towers in complex cobordism theory.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 55R25, 55R50, 57R77.(Received: August 2004)     

Calabi-Yau cones from contact reduction

We consider a generalization of Einstein–Sasaki manifolds, which we characterize in terms both of spinors and differential forms, that in the real analytic case corresponds to contact manifolds whose symplectic cone is Calabi-Yau. We construct solvable examples in seven dimensions. Then, we consider circle actions that preserve the structure and determine conditions for the contact reduction to carry an induced structure of the same type. We apply this construction to obtain a new hypo-contact structure on S ² × T ³.     

Clifford structures on Riemannian manifolds

We introduce the notion of even Clifford structures on Riemannian manifolds, which for rank r=2 and r=3 reduce to almost Hermitian and quaternion-Hermitian structures respectively. We give the complete classification of manifolds carrying parallel rank r even Clifford structures: Kähler, quaternion-Kähler and Riemannian products of quaternion-Kähler manifolds for r=2,3 and 4 respectively, several classes of 8-dimensional manifolds (for 5?r?8), families of real, complex and quaternionic Grassmannians (for r=8,6 and 5 respectively), and Rosenfeld?s elliptic projective planes OP², (C⊗O)P², (H⊗O)P² and (O⊗O)P², which are symmetric spaces associated to the exceptional simple Lie groups F₄, E₆, E₇ and E₈ (for r=9,10,12 and 16 respectively). As an application, we classify all Riemannian manifolds whose metric is bundle-like along the curvature constancy distribution, generalizing well-known results in Sasakian and 3-Sasakian geometry.     

Note on a theorem of Bangert

We generalize Bangert’s non-hyperbolicity result for uniformly tamed almost complex structures on standard symplectic ℝ²ⁿ to asymptotically standard symplectic manifolds.     

Integral representation formulas for differential forms on complex manifolds and applications to the 327-01327-01327-01-equation

Summary An explicit Koppelman-Leray-Norguet type integral formula for differential forms is derived on generalized analytic polyhedra on complex manifolds which arise as analytic subvarieties of domains ofC ⁿ. Using this formula we give an explicit solution operator to the -equation on strictly pseudoconvex polyhedra in that setting and we prove that this solution operator admits uniform estimates.     

Complex points of minimal surfaces in almost Kähler manifolds

If (N, ο, J,g) is an almost K?hler manifold and M is a branched minimal immersion which is not a $J$-holomorphic curve, we show that the complex tangents are isolated and that each has a negative index, which extends the results in the K?hler case by S. S. Chern and J. Wolfson [2] and S. Webster [7] to almost K?hler manifolds. As an application, we get lower estimates for the genus of embedded minimal surfaces in almost K?hler manifolds. The proofs of these results are based on the well-known Cartan's moving frame methods as in [2, 7]. In our case, we must compute the torsion of the almost complex structures and find a useful representation of torsion. Finally, we prove that the minimal surfaces in complex projective plane with any almost complex structure is a J-holomorphic curve if it is homologous to the complex line. Received: 10 January 1997 / Revised version: 22 August 1997     

On Analytic Interpolation Manifolds in Boundaries of Weakly Pseudoconvex Domains

Let Ω be a bounded, weakly pseudoconvex domain in C ⁿ , n ≤ 2, with real-analytic boundary. A real-analytic submanifold M ? ?Ω is called an analytic interpolation manifold if every real-analytic function on M extends to a function belonging to (Ω¯). We provide sufficient conditions for M to be an analytic interpolation manifold. We give examples showing that neither of these conditions can be relaxed, as well as examples of analytic interpolation manifolds lying entirely within the set of weakly pseudoconvex points of ?Ω.     

Supersymmetry on noncompact manifolds and complex geometry

Special properties of realizations of supersymmetry on noncompact manifolds are discussed. On the basis of the supersymmetric scattering theory and the supersymmetric trace formulas, the absolute or relative Euler characteristic of a barrier inR ^N can be obtained from the scattering data for the Laplace operator on forms with absolute or relative boundary conditions. An analog of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem for noncompact manifolds is also obtained. The map from the stationary curve of an antiholomorphic involution on a compact Riemann surface to the real circle on the Riemann sphere, generated by a real meromorphic function is considered. An analytic expression for its topological index is obtained by using supersymmetric quantum mechanics with meromorphic superpotential on the Klein surface. Bibliography: 27 titles. Dedicated to L. D. Faddeev on the occasion of his 60th birthday Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 215, 1994, pp. 77–99. Translated by B. M. Bekker.     

Vitushkin’s germ theorem for engel-type CR manifolds

We study real analytic CR manifolds of CR dimension 1 and codimension 2 in the three-dimensional complex space. We prove that the germ of a holomorphic mapping between “nonspherical” manifolds can be extended along any path (this is an analog of Vitushkin’s germ theorem). For a cubic model surface (“sphere”), we prove an analog of the Poincaré theorem on the mappings of spheres into ?². We construct an example of a compact “spherical” submanifold in a compact complex 3-space such that the germ of a mapping of the “sphere” into this submanifold cannot be extended to a certain point of the “sphere.”     

Stochastic processes on geometric loop groups,diffeomorphism groups of connected manifolds,and associated unitary representations

This paper is devoted to the investigation of semidirect products of loop groups and homeomorphism or diffeomorphism groups of finite-and infinite-dimensional real, complex, and quaternion manifolds. Necessary statements about quaternion manifolds with quaternion holomorphic transition mappings between charts of atlases are proved. It is shown that these groups exist and have the structure of infinite-dimensional Lie groups, i.e., they are continuous or differentiable manifolds and the composition (f, g) ↦ f ⁻¹ g is continuous or differentiable depending on the smoothness class of groups. Moreover, it is proved that in the cases of complex and quaternion manifolds, these groups have the structures of complex and quaternion manifolds, respectively. Nevertheless, it is proved that these groups do not necessarily satisfy the Campbell-Hausdorff formula even locally outside of the exceptional case of a group of holomorphic diffeomorphisms of a compact complex manifold. Unitary representations of these groups G′, including irreducible ones, are constructed by using quasi-invariant measures on groups G relative to dense subgroups G′. It is proved that this procedure provides a family of cardinality card(ℝ) of pairwise nonequivalent, irreducible, unitary representations. The differentiabilty of such representations is studied. __________ Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 28, Algebra and Analysis, 2005.     

Fefferman’s mapping theorem on almost complex manifolds in complex dimension two

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the smooth extension of a diffeomorphism between smooth strictly pseudoconvex domains in four real dimensional almost complex manifolds (see Theorem 1.1). The proof is mainly based on a reflection principle for pseudoholomorphic discs, on precise estimates of the Kobayashi-Royden infinitesimal pseudometric and on the scaling method in almost complex manifolds.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 32H02,53C15     

Deformations of trianalytic subvarieties of hyperkähler manifolds

Let M be a compact complex manifold equipped with a hyperk?hler metric, and X be a closed complex analytic subvariety of M. In alg-geom 9403006, we proved that X is trianalytic (i.e., complex analytic with respect to all complex structures induced by the hyperk?hler structure), provided that M is generic in its deformation class. Here we study the complex analytic deformations of trianalytic subvarieties. We prove that all deformations of X are trianalytic and naturally isomorphic to X as complex analytic varieties. We show that this isomorphism is compatible with the metric induced from M. Also, we prove that the Douady space of complex analytic deformations of X in M is equipped with a natural hyperk?hler structure.     

Contact structures on product five-manifolds and fibre sums along circles

Two constructions of contact manifolds are presented: (i) products of S ¹ with manifolds admitting a suitable decomposition into two exact symplectic pieces and (ii) fibre connected sums along isotropic circles. Baykur has found a decomposition as required for (i) for all closed, oriented 4-manifolds. As a corollary, we can show that all closed, oriented 5-manifolds that are Cartesian products of lower-dimensional manifolds carry a contact structure. For symplectic 4-manifolds we exhibit an alternative construction of such a decomposition; this gives us control over the homotopy type of the corresponding contact structure. In particular, we prove that \mathbb CP²×S¹{{\mathbb {CP}}^2\times S^1} admits a contact structure in every homotopy class of almost contact structures. The existence of contact structures is also established for a large class of 5-manifolds with fundamental group \mathbbZ₂{{\mathbb{Z}}_2} .     

Some Remarks on Almost and Stable Almost Complex Manifolds

In the first part we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a stable almost complex structure on a 10-manifold M with H₁(M;?) = 0 and no 2-torsion in H₁(M;?) for i = 2,3. Using the Classification Theorem of Donaldson we give a reformulation of the conditions for a 4-manifold to be almost complex in terms of Betti numbers and the dimension of the ±-eigenspaces of the intersection form. In the second part we give general conditions for an almost complex manifold to admit infinitely many almost complex structures and apply these to symplectic manifolds, to homogeneous spaces and to complete intersections.     

A regularity theorem for deformations of a compact complex surface

Let ƒ:M →D ⊑C ⁿ be a holomorphic family of compact, complex surfaces, which is locally trivial onD∖Z, for an analytic subsetZ. Conditions are found under which ƒ extends trivially toD, if the fibers of ƒ|_D∖Z are either Hirzebruch surfaces (projective bundles overP ₁), Hopf surfaces (elliptic bundles overP ₁), hyperelliptic bundles, or any compact complex surface having one of these as minimal model under blowing-down. The results of this paper are motivated by the existence of non-Hausdorff moduli spaces in the deformation of complex structure for certain complex manifolds.     

Engel groups II

We study m-dimensional real submanifolds M with (m − 1)-dimensional maximal holomorphic tangent subspace in complex projective space. On these manifolds there exists an almost contact structure F which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the condition h(FX, Y) − h(X, FY) = g(FX, Y)η, η ∈ T ^⊥(M), on the almost contact structure F and on the second fundamental form h of these submanifolds and we characterize certain model spaces in complex projective space.     

Defect and evaluations

Let S be a generic submanifold of C ^N of real codimension m. In this paper we continue the study, carried over by various authors, of the set of analytic discs attached to S. Moreover, we look at the subspaces of C ^N obtained by evaluating at given points, holomorphic maps which are infinitesimal deformations of analytic discs attached to S.     

Equivariant cobordism of Grassmann and flag manifolds

We consider certain natural (ℤ₂)ⁿ actions on real Grassmann and flag manifolds andS ¹ actions on complex Grassmann manifolds with finite stationary point sets and determine completely which of them bound equivariantly.