APS boundary conditions, eta invariants and adiabatic limits

We prove an adiabatic limit formula for the eta invariant of a manifold with boundary. The eta invariant is defined using the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary condition and the underlying manifold is fibered over a manifold with boundary. Our result extends the work of Bismut-Cheeger to manifolds with boundary.

     

Spectral gap estimates on compact manifolds

For a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, its mass gap is the difference between the first and second smallest Dirichlet eigenvalues. In this paper, taking a variational approach, we obtain an explicit lower bound estimate of the mass gap for any compact manifold in terms of geometric quantities.

     

The Serre duality theorem for a non-compact weighted CR manifold

It is proved that the Hodge decomposition and Serre duality hold on a non-compact weighted CR manifold with negligible boundary. A complete CR manifold has negligible boundary. Some examples of complete CR manifolds are presented.

     

Kirwan-Novikov inequalities on a manifold with boundary

We extend the Novikov Morse-type inequalities for closed 1-forms in 2 directions. First, we consider manifolds with boundary. Second, we allow a very degenerate structure of the critical set of the form, assuming only that the form is non-degenerated in the sense of Kirwan. In particular, we obtain a generalization of a result of Floer about the usual Morse inequalities on a manifold with boundary. We also obtain an equivariant version of our inequalities.

Our proof is based on an application of the Witten deformation technique. The main novelty here is that we consider the neighborhood of the critical set as a manifold with a cylindrical end. This leads to a considerable simplification of the local analysis. In particular, we obtain a new analytic proof of the Morse-Bott inequalities on a closed manifold.

     

Martin points on open manifolds of non-positive curvature

The Martin boundary of a Cartan-Hadamard manifold describes a fine geometric structure at infinity, which is a sub-space of positive harmonic functions. We describe conditions which ensure that some points of the sphere at infinity belong to the Martin boundary as well. In the case of the universal cover of a compact manifold with Ballmann rank one, we show that Martin points are generic and of full harmonic measure. The result of this paper provides a partial answer to an open problem of S. T. Yau.

     

Discs in complex manifolds with no bounded plurisubharmonic functions

Roughly speaking: In a complex manifold on which all bounded plurisubharmonic functions are constant, the center of a holomorphic disc and its boundary can be prescribed somewhat arbitrarily.

     

On the asphericity of a symplectic

C. H. Taubes asked whether a closed (i.e. compact and without boundary) connected oriented three-dimensional manifold whose product with a circle admits a symplectic structure must fiber over a circle. An affirmative answer to Taubes' question would imply that any such manifold either is diffeomorphic to the product of a two-sphere with a circle or is irreducible and aspherical. In this paper, we prove that this implication holds up to connect sum with a manifold which admits no proper covering spaces with finite index. It is pointed out that Thurston's geometrization conjecture and known results in the theory of three-dimensional manifolds imply that such a manifold is a three-dimensional sphere. Hence, modulo the present conjectural picture of three-dimensional manifolds, we have shown that the stated consequence of an affirmative answer to Taubes' question holds.

     

A family of Kähler-Einstein manifolds and metric rigidity of Grauert tubes

In this paper we explain how the so-called adapted complex structures can be used to associate to each compact real-analytic Riemannian manifold a family of complete Kähler-Einstein metrics and show that already one element of this family uniquely determines the original manifold. The underlying manifolds of these metrics are open disc bundles in the tangent bundle of the original Riemannian manifold.

     

Sum of squares manifolds: The expressibility of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds as a sum of squares of vector fields

In this paper, we investigate under what circumstances the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold can be written as a sum of squares of vector fields, as is naturally the case in Euclidean space.

We show that such an expression exists globally on one-dimensional manifolds and can be found at least locally on any analytic pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension greater than two. For two-dimensional manifolds this is possible if and only if the manifold is flat.

These results are achieved by formulating the problem as an exterior differential system and applying the Cartan-Kähler theorem to it.

     

Half De Rham complexes and line fields on odd-dimensional manifolds

In this paper we introduce a new elliptic complex on an odd-dimensional manifold with a self-dual line field. The notion of a self-dual line field is a generalization of the notion of a conformal line field. Ellipticity, Fredholm properties and Hodge decompositions of these new complexes are proved both in the case of a closed manifold and in the case of a manifold with boundary. The cohomology groups of these elliptic complexes are computed in some cases. In addition, in this paper, we generalize the notion of an anti-self-dual connection on a smooth 4-manifold to a 3-manifold with a line field and a smooth 5-manifold with a line field. The above new elliptic complexes can be twisted by anti-self-dual connections in dimensions 3 and 5, but only by flat connections in dimensions above 5. This reveals a special feature of dimensions 3 and 5.

     

Geodesic ideal triangulations exist virtually

It is shown that every non-compact hyperbolic manifold of finite volume has a finite cover admitting a geodesic ideal triangulation. Also, every hyperbolic manifold of finite volume with non-empty, totally geodesic boundary has a finite regular cover which has a geodesic partially truncated triangulation. The proofs use an extension of a result due to Long and Niblo concerning the separability of peripheral subgroups.

     

Dehn filling, reducible 3-manifolds, and Klein bottles

Let be a compact, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus. We announce that if two Dehn fillings create reducible manifold and manifold containing Klein bottle, then the maximal distance is three.

     

A finiteness theorem for harmonic maps into Hilbert Grassmannians

In this article we demonstrate that every harmonic map from a closed Riemannian manifold into a Hilbert Grassmannian has image contained within a finite-dimensional Grassmannian.

     

A converse of the Gelfand theorem

In this short note we obtain a converse to the Gelfand theorem: a Riemannian manifold is homogeneous if the isometrically invariant operators on the manifold form a commutative algebra.

     

On the splitting problem for manifold pairs with boundaries

The problem of splitting a homotopy equivalence along a submanifold is closely related to the surgery exact sequence and to the problem of surgery of manifold pairs. In classical surgery theory there exist two approaches to surgery in the category of manifolds with boundaries. In the rel ∂ case the surgery on a manifold pair is considered with the given fixed manifold structure on the boundary. In the relative case the surgery on the manifold with boundary is considered without fixing maps on the boundary. Consider a normal map to a manifold pair (Y, ∂Y) ⊂ (X, ∂X) with boundary which is a simple homotopy equivalence on the boundary∂X. This map defines a mixed structure on the manifold with the boundary in the sense of Wall. We introduce and study groups of obstructions to splitting of such mixed structures along submanifold with boundary (Y, ∂Y). We describe relations of these groups to classical surgery and splitting obstruction groups. We also consider several geometric examples.     

Geometric flow and rigidity on symmetric spaces of noncompact type

In this paper we show that, under a suitable condition, every nonsingular geometric flow on a manifold which is modeled on the Furstenberg boundary of , where is a symmetric space of non-compact type, induces a torus action, and, in particular, if the manifold is a rational homology sphere, then the flow has a closed orbit.

     

Microbundles, manifolds and metrisability

The notion of a microbundle was introduced in the 1960s but the theory came to an abrupt halt when it was shown that for a metrisable manifold, microbundles are equivalent to fibre bundles. In this paper we consider microbundles over non-metrisable manifolds. In some cases microbundles are equivalent to fibre bundles but in others they are not. In particular, we show that a manifold is metrisable if and only if its tangent microbundle is equivalent to a fibre bundle. We also illustrate that for some non-metrisable manifolds every trivial microbundle contains a trivial fibre bundle whereas other manifolds may support a trivial microbundle not containing a trivial fibre bundle.

     

Real analytic structures on a symplectic manifold

We prove that every symplectic manifold possesses a real analytic structure. Moreover this structure is unique up to isomorphism.

     

Finiteness of polyhedral decompositions of cusped hyperbolic manifolds obtained by the Epstein-Penner's method

Epstein and Penner give a canonical method of decomposing a cusped hyperbolic manifold into ideal polyhedra. The decomposition depends on arbitrarily specified weights for the cusps. From the construction, it is rather obvious that there appear at most a finite number of decompositions if the given weights are slightly changed. However, since the space of weights is not compact, it is not clear whether the total number of such decompositions is finite. In this paper we prove that the number of polyhedral decompositions of a cusped hyperbolic manifold obtained by the Epstein-Penner's method is finite.

     

Parabolic super mean value inequality

In this note, we show that a type of mean value inequality for the positive supersolutions to the heat equation on a Riemannian manifold is equivalent to a version of local heat kernel lower bounds. We also show that the global Gaussian type heat kernel lower bound implies that the manifold has the Liouville property.