Affinely equivalent K?hler-Finsler metrics on a complex manifold

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate affinely equivalent K?hler-Finsler metrics on a complex manifold. We give two facts (1) Projectively equivalent K?hler-Finsler metrics must be affinely equivalent; (2) a K?hler-Finsler metric is a K?hler-Berwald metric if and only if it is affinely equivalent to a K?hler metric. Furthermore, we give a formula to describe the affine equivalence of two weakly K?hler-Finsler metrics.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for unique determination of plane domains

We say that a domain U ? ?ⁿ is uniquely determined from the relative metric of its Hausdorff boundary (the relative metric is the extension by continuity of the intrinsic metric of the domain to the boundary) if every domain V ? ?ⁿ with the Hausdorff boundary isometric in the relative metric to the Hausdorff boundary of U is isometric to U too (in the Euclidean metrics). In this article we state some necessary and sufficient conditions for a plane domain to be uniquely determined from the relative metric of its Hausdorff boundary.     

Fixed Points of Sequence of Ćirić Generalized Contractions of Perov Type

Perov used the concept of vector valued metric space and obtained a Banach type fixed point theorem on such a complete generalized metric space. In this article, we study fixed point results for the new extensions of sequence of ?iri? generalized contractions on cone metric space, and we give some generalized versions of the fixed point theorem of Perov. The theory is illustrated with some examples. It is worth mentioning that the main result in this paper could not be derived from ?iri?’s result by the scalarization method, and hence indeed improves many recent results in cone metric spaces.     

Ricci flow on Kähler-Einstein surfaces

In this paper, we prove that if M is a K?hler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature, if the initial metric has nonnegative sectional curvature, and the curvature is positive somewhere, then the K?hler-Ricci flow converges to a K?hler-Einstein metric with constant bisectional curvature. In a subsequent paper [7], we prove the same result for general K?hler-Einstein manifolds in all dimension. This gives an affirmative answer to a long standing problem in K?hler Ricci flow: On a compact K?hler-Einstein manifold, does the K?hler-Ricci flow converge to a K?hler-Einstein metric if the initial metric has a positive bisectional curvature? Our main method is to find a set of new functionals which are essentially decreasing under the K?hler Ricci flow while they have uniform lower bounds. This property gives the crucial estimate we need to tackle this problem. Oblatum 8-IX-2000 & 30-VII-2001?Published online: 19 November 2001     

On nonlinear quasi-contractions on TVS-cone metric spaces

Recently, Du [W.-S. Du, A note on cone metric fixed point theory and its equivalence, Nonlinear Anal. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.na.2009.10.026] introduced the notion of TVS-cone metric space. In this paper we present fixed point theorem for nonlinear quasi-contractive mappings defined on TVS-cone metric space, which generalizes earlier results obtained by Ili? and Rako?evi? [D. Ili?, V. Rako?evi?, Quasi-contractions on a cone metric space, Appl. Math. Lett. 22 (2009) 728–731] and Kadelburg, Radenovi? and Rako?evi? [Z. Kadelburg, S. Radenovi?, V. Rako?evi?, Remarks on quasi-contractions on a cone metric space, Appl. Math. Lett. 22 (2009) 1674–1679].     

The Fefferman–Szegő metric and applications

In this paper, we develop properties of the Szeg? kernel and Fefferman–Szeg? metric that were first introduced by D. Barrett and L. Lee. In particular, we produce a representative coordinate system related to the metric. We also explore the Poisson–Szeg? kernel. Additional analytic and geometric properties of the Szeg? kernel and Fefferman–Szeg? metric are developed.     

Remarks on “Quasi-contraction on a cone metric space”

Recently, D. Ili? and V. Rako?evi? [D. Ili?, V. Rako?evi?, Quasi-contraction on a cone metric space, Appl. Math. Lett. (2008) doi:10.1016/j.aml.2008.08.011] proved a fixed point theorem for quasi-contractive mappings in cone metric spaces when the underlying cone is normal. The aim of this paper is to prove this and some related results without using the normality condition.     

On the Szegő Metric

We introduce a new biholomorphically invariant metric based on Fefferman’s invariant Szeg? kernel and investigate the relation of the new metric to the Bergman and Carathéodory metrics. A key tool is a new absolutely invariant function assembled from the Szeg? and Bergman kernels.     

The Szeg? Metric Associated to Hardy Spaces of Clifford Algebra Valued Functions and Some Geometric Properties

In analogy to complex function theory we introduce a Szeg? metric in the context of hypercomplex function theory dealing with functions that take values in a Clifford algebra. In particular, we are dealing with Clifford algebra valued functions that are annihilated by the Euclidean Dirac operator in \mathbbR^m+1{\mathbb{R}^{m+1}} . These are often called monogenic functions. As a consequence of the isometry between two Hardy spaces of monogenic functions on domains that are related to each other by a conformal map, the generalized Szeg? metric turns out to have a pseudo-invariance under M?bius transformations. This property is crucially applied to show that the curvature of this metric is always negative on bounded domains. Furthermore, it allows us to establish that this metric is complete on bounded domains.     

H?lder metric regularity of set-valued maps

This paper is devoted to metric regularity of set-valued maps from a complete metric space to a Banach space. In particular we extend a known characterization of the regularity modulus to maps defined on reflexive spaces. The higher order metric regularity, i.e. an extension of metric regularity to H?lder context, is also investigated using high order variations of set-valued maps and results of similar nature are obtained for conical metric regularity.     

Hyperbolization of cusps with convex boundary

We prove that for every metric on the torus with curvature bounded from below by ?1 in the sense of Alexandrov there exists a hyperbolic cusp with convex boundary such that the induced metric on the boundary is the given metric. The proof is by polyhedral approximation. This was the last open case of a general theorem: every metric with curvature bounded from below on a compact surface is isometric to a convex surface in a 3-dimensional space form.     

Embedding the Kepler Problem as a Surface of Revolution

Solutions of the planar Kepler problem with fixed energy h determine geodesics of the corresponding Jacobi–Maupertuis metric. This is a Riemannian metric on ?² if h ? 0 or on a disk D ? ?² if h < 0. The metric is singular at the origin (the collision singularity) and also on the boundary of the disk when h < 0. The Kepler problem and the corresponding metric are invariant under rotations of the plane and it is natural to wonder whether the metric can be realized as a surface of revolution in ?³ or some other simple space. In this note, we use elementary methods to study the geometry of the Kepler metric and the embedding problem. Embeddings of the metrics with h ? 0 as surfaces of revolution in ?³ are constructed explicitly but no such embedding exists for h < 0 due to a problem near the boundary of the disk. We prove a theorem showing that the same problem occurs for every analytic central force potential. Returning to the Kepler metric, we rule out embeddings in the three-sphere or hyperbolic space, but succeed in constructing an embedding in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Indeed, there are many such embeddings.     

距离空间上测度正则性的推广

本文给出了单调类与σ代数关系的充要条件,进一步得出距离空间的开集全体产生的最小单调类与产生的σ代数相等.利用这关系,证明了距离空间上的σ-有限测度也是正则测度.推广了距离空间上有限测度的正则性.     

Lelek?s problem is not a metric problem

We show that Lelek?s problem on the chainability of continua with span zero is not a metric problem: from a non-metric counterexample one can construct a metric one.     

Isometric embeddings of locally Euclidean metrics in ℝ3 as conical surfaces

It is proved that if a domain with a locally Euclidean metric can be isometrically immersed in the Euclidean plane ?² with the standard metric, then it can be isometrically embedded in ?³ as a conical surface whose projection on a sphere centered at the vertex of the cone is a self-avoiding planar graph with sufficiently smooth edges of specially selected lengths.     

Métriques autoduales sur la boule

A conformal metric on a 4-ball induces on the boundary 3-sphere a conformal metric and a trace-free second fundamental form. Conversely, such a data on the 3-sphere is the boundary of a unique selfdual conformal metric, defined in a neighborhood of the sphere. In this paper we characterize the conformal metrics and trace-free second fundamental forms on the 3-sphere (close to the standard round metric) which are boundaries of selfdual conformal metrics on the whole 4-ball. When the data on the boundary is reduced to a conformal metric (the trace-free part of the second fundamental form vanishes), one may hope to find in the conformal class of the filling metric an Einstein metric, with a pole of order 2 on the boundary. We determine which conformal metrics on the 3-sphere are boundaries of such selfdual Einstein metrics on the 4-ball. In particular, this implies the Positive Frequency Conjecture of LeBrun. The proof uses twistor theory, which enables to translate the problem in terms of complex analysis; this leads us to prove a criterion for certain integrable CR structures of signature (1,1) to be fillable by a complex domain. Finally, we solve an analogous, higher dimensional problem: selfdual Einstein metrics are replaced by quaternionic-K?hler metrics, and conformal structures on the boundary by quaternionic contact structures (previously introduced by the author); in contrast with the 4-dimensional case, we prove that any small deformation of the standard quaternionic contact structure on the (4m−1)-sphere is the boundary of a quaternionic-K?hler metric on the (4m)-ball. Oblatum 29-XI-2000 & 7-XI-2001?Published online: 1 February 2002     

An upper gradient approach to weakly differentiable cochains

The aim of the present paper is to define a notion of weakly differentiable cochain in the generality of metric measure spaces and to study basic properties of such cochains. Our cochains are (sub)additive functionals on a subspace of chains, and a suitable notion of chains in metric spaces is given by Ambrosio–Kirchheim?s theory of metric currents. The notion of weak differentiability we introduce is in analogy with Heinonen–Koskela?s concept of upper gradients of functions. In one of the main results of our paper, we prove continuity estimates for cochains with p-integrable upper gradient in n-dimensional Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Finsler metric. Our result generalizes the well-known Morrey–Sobolev inequality for Sobolev functions. Finally, we prove several results relating capacity and modulus to Hausdorff dimension.     

A Łoś type theorem for linear metric formulas

We define an ultraproduct of metric structures based on a maximal probability charge and prove a variant of ?o? theorem for linear metric formulas. We also consider iterated ultraproducts (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Some Properties of Gromov–Hausdorff Distances

The Gromov?CHausdorff distance between metric spaces appears to be a useful tool for modeling some object matching procedures. Since its conception it has been mainly used by pure mathematicians who are interested in the topology generated by this distance, and quantitative consequences of the definition are not very common. As a result, only few lower bounds for the distance are known, and the stability of many metric invariants is not understood. This paper aims at clarifying some of these points by proving several results dealing with explicit lower bounds for the Gromov?CHausdorff distance which involve different standard metric invariants. We also study a modified version of the Gromov?CHausdorff distance which is motivated by practical applications and both prove a structural theorem for it and study its topological equivalence to the usual notion. This structural theorem provides a decomposition of the modified Gromov?CHausdorff distance as the supremum over a family of pseudo-metrics, each of which involves the comparison of certain discrete analogues of curvature. This modified version relates the standard Gromov?CHausdorff distance to the work of Boutin and Kemper, and Olver.     

Metrizability of paratopological (semitopological) groups

We investigate some generalized metric space properties on paratopological (semitopological) groups and prove that a paratopological group that is quasi-metrizable by a left continuous, left-invariant quasi-metric is a topological group and give a negative answer to Ravsky?s question (Ravsky, 2001 [18, Question 3.1]). It is also shown that an uncountable paratopological group that is a closed image of a separable, locally compact metric space is a topological group. Finally, we discuss Hausdorff compactification of paratopological (semitopological) groups, give an affirmative answer to Lin and Shen?s question (Lin and Shen, 2011 [14, Question 6.9]) and improve an Arhangel?skii and Choban?s theorem. Some questions are posed.