Seshadri fibrations of algebraic surfaces

We refine results of [6] and [10] which relate local invariants – Seshadri constants – of ample line bundles on surfaces to the global geometry – fibration structure. We show that the same picture emerges when looking at Seshadri constants measured at any finite subset of the given surface (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Indecomposability of certain Lefschetz fibrations

We prove that Lefschetz fibrations admitting a section of square cannot be decomposed as fiber sums. In particular, Lefschetz fibrations on symplectic 4-manifolds found by Donaldson are indecomposable. This observation also shows that symplectic Lefschetz fibrations are not necessarily fiber sums of holomorphic ones.

     

Chern numbers of certain Lefschetz fibrations

We address the geography problem of relatively minimal Lefschetz fibrations over surfaces of nonzero genus and prove that if the fiber-genus of the fibration is positive, then (equivalently, ) holds for those symplectic 4-manifolds. A useful characterization of minimality of such symplectic 4-manifolds is also proved.

     

Symmetries of Lagrangian fibrations

We construct fiber-preserving anti-symplectic involutions for a large class of symplectic manifolds with Lagrangian torus fibrations. In particular, we treat the K3 surface and the six-dimensional examples constructed by Castaño-Bernard and Matessi (2009) [8], which include a six-dimensional symplectic manifold homeomorphic to the quintic threefold. We interpret our results as corroboration of the view that in homological mirror symmetry, an anti-symplectic involution is the mirror of duality. In the same setting, we construct fiber-preserving symplectomorphisms that can be interpreted as the mirror to twisting by a holomorphic line bundle.     

The sectional category of spherical fibrations

We give homological conditions which determine sectional category, secat, for rational spherical fibrations. In the odd dimensional case the secat is the least power of the Euler class which is trivial. In the even dimensional case secat is one when a certain homology class in twice the dimension of the sphere is times a square. Otherwise secat is two. We apply our results to construct a fibration such that and genus . We also observe that secat, unlike cat, can decrease in a field extension of .

     

Poisson cohomology of broken Lefschetz fibrations

We compute the formal Poisson cohomology of a broken Lefschetz fibration by calculating it at fold and Lefschetz singularities. Near a fold singularity the computation reduces to that for a point singularity in 3 dimensions. For the Poisson cohomology around singular points we adapt techniques developed for the Sklyanin algebra. As a side result, we give compact formulas for the Poisson coboundary operator of an arbitrary Jacobian Poisson structure in 4 dimensions.     

A Model for the Orbifold Chow Ring of Weighted Projective Spaces

We construct an isomorphism of graded Frobenius algebras between the orbifold Chow ring of weighted projective spaces and graded algebras of groups of roots of the unity.     

Free, Isometric Circle Actions on Compact Symmetric Spaces

Let S=G/K be a strongly irreducible, simply connected, compact symmetric space and let be its group of isometries. We classify the symmetric spaces among these that admit free, isometric circle actions. The existence of such actions is important in constructing examples of manifolds with positive sectional curvature.     

Seifert fibrations of lens spaces

We classify the Seifert fibrations of any given lens space L(p, q). Starting from any pair of coprime non-zero integers \(\alpha _1^0,\alpha _2^0\), we give an algorithmic construction of a Seifert fibration \(L(p,q)\rightarrow S^2(\alpha |\alpha _1^0|,\alpha |\alpha _2^0|)\), where the natural number \(\alpha \) is determined by the algorithm. This algorithm produces all possible Seifert fibrations, and the isomorphisms between the resulting Seifert fibrations are described completely. Also, we show that all Seifert fibrations are isomorphic to certain standard models.     

Topological structure of candidates for positive curvature

In light of recent advances in the study of manifolds admitting Riemannian metrics of positive sectional curvature, the study of certain infinite families of seven dimensional manifolds has become a matter of interest. We determine the cohomology ring structures of manifolds belonging to these families. This particular ring structure indicates the existence of topological invariants distinguishing the corresponding homeomorphism and diffeomorphism type. We show that all families contain representatives of infinitely many homotopy types.     

Topological properties of Eschenburg spaces and 3-Sasakian manifolds

We examine topological properties of the seven-dimensional positively curved Eschenburg biquotients and find many examples which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. A special subfamily of these manifolds also carries a 3-Sasakian metric. Among these we construct a pair of 3-Sasakian spaces which are diffeomorphic to each other, thus giving rise to the first example of a manifold which carries two non-isometric 3-Sasakian metrics. Christine Escher was supported by a grant from the Association for Women in Mathematics. Wolfgang Ziller was supported by the Francis J. Carey Term Chair, and Ted Chinburg and Wolfgang Ziller were supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.     

Obstructions to positive curvature and symmetry

We discuss new obstructions to positive sectional curvature and symmetry. The main result asserts that the index of the Dirac operator twisted with the tangent bundle vanishes on a 2-connected manifold of dimension ≠8 if the manifold admits a metric of positive sectional curvature and isometric effective S¹-action. The proof relies on the rigidity theorem for elliptic genera and properties of totally geodesic submanifolds.     

Ricci-positive metrics on connected sums of projective spaces

It is a well known result of Gromov that all manifolds of a given dimension with positive sectional curvature are subject to a universal bound on the sum of their Betti numbers. On the other hand, there is no such bound for manifolds with positive Ricci curvature: indeed, Perelman constructed Ricci positive metrics on arbitrary connected sums of complex projective planes. In this paper, we revisit and extend Perelman's techniques to construct Ricci positive metrics on arbitrary connected sums of complex, quaternionic, and octonionic projective spaces in every dimension.     

On the Structure of Cimpact Simply Connected Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature

We present a first structure theorem for compact simply connected positively curved manifolds with arbitrarily small pinching constants: For each nN and 0<1, there exists a positive number V = V(n,) such that if (M,g) is a compact simply connected n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature 0相似文献   

On the homotopy type of Eschenburg spaces with positive sectional curvature

A rigidity theorem is proved for principal Eschenburg spaces of positive sectional curvature. It is shown that for a very large class of such spaces the homotopy type determines the diffeomorphism type.

     

Mirror fibrations and root stacks of weighted projective spaces

We show that the orbifold Chow ring of a root stack over a well-formed weighted projective space can be naturally seen as the Jacobian algebra of a function on a singular variety.     

On the volume of orbifold quotients of symmetric spaces

Key to H. C. Wang's quantitative study of Zassenhaus neighbourhoods of non-compact semisimple Lie groups are two constants that depend on the root system of the corresponding Lie algebra. This article extends the list of values for Wang's constants to the exceptional Lie groups and also removes their dependence on dimension. The first application is an improved upper sectional curvature bound for a canonical left-invariant metric on a semisimple Lie group. The second application is an explicit uniform positive lower bound for arbitrary orbifold quotients of a given irreducible symmetric space of non-compact type.