Eigenfunction expansions and the pinsky phenomenon on compact manifolds

We extend results on pointwise convergence of eigenfunction expansions established for functions on flat tori in [24] and [26] to the setting of compact Riemannian manifolds, subject to a mild restriction on the order of caustics that can arise in the fundamental solution of the wave equation. This gives analyses of some endpoint cases of results treated in [3]. In particular, we are able to treat the Pinsky phenomenon for eigenfunction expansions of piecewise smooth functions with jump across the boundary of a ball on such manifolds, in dimension three. Acknowledgements and Notes. Partially supported by NSF grant DMS 9877077.     

Pointwise Fourier inversion on tori and other compact manifolds

We prove a number of results about pointwise convergence of eigenfunction expansions of functions on compact manifolds. In particular, we establish that the Pinsky phenomenon holds for piecewise smooth functions on the three-dimensional torus, with jump across the boundary of a ball, in the same form as it was discovered for functions on three-dimensional Euclidean space. Our work on this has been stimulated by recent work of Brandolini and Colzani, and we also discuss some variants of their results.     

Localization and convergence of eigenfunction expansions

We state a localization principle for expansions in eigenfunctions of a self-adjoint second order elliptic operator and we prove an equiconvergence result between eigenfunction expansions and trigonometric expansions. We then study the Gibbs phenomenon for eigenfunction expansions of piecewise smooth functions on two-dimensional manifolds.     

The short ruler on the torus

ABSTRACT

We can shorten any path that links two given points by applying short ruler transforms iteratively. In this article we take a closer look at a short ruler process on the torus. The torus is a compact Riemannian manifold and at least a subsequence of the process converges to a geodesic between the two points. However, on compact Riemann manifolds there might exist different limit geodesics (with the same length). On the torus, the geodesics with the same length are isolated and the limit geodesic is unique.     

Pointwise fourier inversion and related eigenfunction expansions

Necessary and sufficient conditions are found for the convergence at a pre-assigned point of the spherical partial sums (resp. integrals) of the Fourier series (resp. integral) in the class of piecewise smooth functions on Euclidean space. These results carry over unchanged to spherical harmonic expansions, Fourier transforms on hyperbolic space, and Dirichlet eigenfunction expansions with respect to the Laplace operator on a class of Riemannian manifolds. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Evolution of Measures in the Phase Space of Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems

We establish the existence of weak limits of solutions (in the class L _p, p%thinsp;1) of the Liouville equation for nondegenerate quasihomogeneous Hamilton equations. We find the limit probability distributions in the configuration space. We give conditions for a uniform distribution of Gibbs ensembles for geodesic flows on compact manifolds.     

Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary: Enumeration and volume calculation

We describe a natural strategy to enumerate compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary in increasing order of complexity. We show that the same strategy can be applied in order to analyze simultaneously compact manifolds and finite-volume manifolds with toric cusps. In contrast, we show that if one allows annular cusps, the number of manifolds grows very rapidly and our strategy cannot be employed to obtain a complete list. We also carefully describe how to compute the volume of our manifolds, discussing formulas for the volume of a tetrahedron with generic dihedral angles in hyperbolic space.     

The stretch of a foliation and geometric superrigidity

We consider compact smooth foliated manifolds with leaves isometrically covered by a fixed symmetric space of noncompact type. Such objects can be considered as compact models for the geometry of the symmetric space. Based on this we formulate and solve a geometric superrigidity problem for foliations that seeks the existence of suitable isometric totally geodesic immersions. To achieve this we consider the heat flow equation along the leaves of a foliation, a Bochner formula on foliations and a geometric invariant for foliations with leafwise Riemannian metrics called the stretch. We obtain as applications a metric rigidity theorem for foliations and a rigidity type result for Riemannian manifolds whose geometry is only partially symmetric.

     

A General Approach to Gibbs Phenomenon

Gibbs phenomenon occurs for most approximations based on standard orthogonal expansions, as well as for those based on integral operators. It also occurs in interpolations and other types of approximations. We consider a general approach to approximation based on delta sequences in an attempt to better understand the concept.     

On the Mean Exit Time for Compact Symmetric Spaces

Given a compact symmetric space, M, we obtain the mean exit time function from a principal orbit, for a Brownian particle starting and moving in a generalized ball whose boundary is the principal orbit. We also obtain the mean exit time flmction of a tube of radius r around special totally geodesic submanifolds P of M. Finally we give a comparison result for the mean exit time function of tubes around submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds, using these totally geodesic submanifolds in compact symmetric spaces as a model.     

Gibbs <Emphasis Type="Italic">u</Emphasis>-states for the foliated geodesic flow and transverse invariant measures

This paper is devoted to the study of Gibbs u-states for the geodesic flow tangent to a foliation F of a manifold M having negatively curved leaves. By definition, they are the probability measures on the unit tangent bundle to the foliation that are invariant under the foliated geodesic flow and have Lebesgue disintegration in the unstable manifolds of this flow. p]On the one hand we give sufficient conditions for the existence of transverse invariant measures. In particular we prove that when the foliated geodesic flow has a Gibbs su-state, i.e. an invariant measure with Lebesgue disintegration both in the stable and unstable manifolds, then this measure has to be obtained by combining a transverse invariant measure and the Liouville measure on the leaves. p]On the other hand we exhibit a bijective correspondence between the set of Gibbs u-states and a set of probability measure on M that we call φ ^u -harmonic. Such measures have Lebesgue disintegration in the leaves and their local densities have a very specific form: they possess an integral representation analogue to the Poisson representation of harmonic functions.     

An Uncertainty Principle for Eigenfunction Expansions

In this paper, we extend a theorem of Hardy’s on Fourier transform pairs to: (a) a noncompact-type Riemannian symmetric space of rank one, with respect to the eigenfunction expansion of the invariant Laplacian; (b) a compact Riemannian manifold with respect to the eigenfunction expansion of a positive elliptic operator; and (c) Rⁿ with respect to Hermite and Laguerre expansions.     

A Bochner Technique for Harmonic Morphisms

We establish a Weitzenböck formula for harmonic morphismsbetween Riemannian manifolds and show that under suitable curvatureconditions, such a map is totally geodesic. As an applicationof the Weitzenböck formula we obtain some non-existenceresults of a global nature for harmonic morphisms and totallygeodesic horizontally conformal maps between compact Riemannianmanifolds. In particular, it is shown that the only harmonicmorphisms from a Riemannian symmetric space of compact typeto a compact Riemann surface of genus at least 1 are the constantmaps.     

Strong Geodesic α-Preinvexity and Invariant α-Monotonicity on Riemannian Manifolds

In this article, we introduce and study a new class of generalized convex functions on Riemannian manifold, called strongly α-invex and strongly geodesic α-preinvex functions. Several kinds of invariant α-monotonicities on Riemannian manifold are introduced. We establish the relationships among the strong α-invexity, strong geodesic α-preinvexity and invariant α-monotonicities under suitable conditions. Various types of α-invexities for functions on Riemannian manifolds are introduced and relations among them are established.     

Expansive dynamics and hyperbolic geometry

LetM be a compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points such that its geodesic flow is expansive. Then we show that the universal Riemannian covering ofM is a hyperbolic geodesic space according to the definition of M. Gromov. This allows us to extend a series of relevant geometric and topological properties of negatively curved manifolds toM and in particular, geometric group theory applies to the fundamental group ofM.     

The wave trace of the basic Laplacian of a Riemannian foliation near a non-zero period

Given a compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold that admits a Riemannian foliation, recall that the space of leaf closures is a singular stratified space. Associated to this space is an operator called the basic Laplacian defined on the space of smooth functions that are constant on the leaves (and, hence, the closures of the leaves of the foliation). The corresponding basic spectrum is, under certain assumptions, an infinite subset of the spectrum of the ordinary laplacian. If the metric is bundle-like with respect to the foliation, the trace of the basic wave operator can be analyzed, and invariants of the basic spectrum can be computed. These invariants include the lengths of certain geodesic arcs which are orthogonal to the leaf closures, and from them, basic wave trace asymptotic expansions are derived. Using the connection between Riemannian foliations and manifolds being acted upon by a compact Lie group of isometries, $G$ , the wave trace for the $G$ -invariant spectrum of a $G$ -manifold is sketched out as a related result.     

Sur l'homologie de cycles géodésiques dans des variétés hyperboliques compactes

The notion of an l-geodesic cycle in a compact hyperbolic n-manifold M generalises, in dimension l, the one of a closed geodesic. In this Note we show that when l ≥n/2, such a cycle lifts to a finite cover of M as an embedded totally geodesic submanifold non zero homologous. It enables us to prove that the compact hyperbolic manifolds constructed by Gromov and Piateski-Shapiro (see [4]) have infinite virtual Betti numbers and to give a new proof of the same fact for the compact arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds constructed by Borel in [3].     

A new geometric construction of compact complex manifolds in any dimension

We consider holomorphic linear foliations of dimension m of (with ) fulfilling a so-called weak hyperbolicity condition and equip the projectivization of the leaf space (for the foliation restricted to an adequate open dense subset) with a structure of compact, complex manifold of dimension . We show that, except for the limit-case where we obtain any complex torus of any dimension, this construction gives non-symplectic manifolds, including the previous examples of Hopf, Calabi-Eckmann, Haefliger (linear case), Loeb-Nicolau (linear case) and López de Medrano-Verjovsky. We study some properties of these manifolds, that is to say meromorphic functions, holomorphic vector fields, forms and submanifolds. For each manifold, we construct an analytic space of deformations of dimension and show that, under some additional conditions, it is universal. Lastly, we give explicit examples of new compact, complex manifolds, in particular of connected sums of products of spheres and show the existence of a momentum-like map which classifies these manifolds, up to diffeomorphism. Received: 28 October 1998 / in final form: 7 September 1999     

General curvature estimates for stable H-surfaces immersed into a space form

In this paper, we give general curvature estimates for constant mean curvature surfaces immersed into a simply-connected 3-dimensional space form. We obtain bounds on the norm of the traceless second fundamental form and on the Gaussian curvature at the center of a relatively compact stable geodesic ball (and, more generally, of a relatively compact geodesic ball with stability operator bounded from below). As a by-product, we show that the notions of weak and strong Morse indices coincide for complete non-compact constant mean curvature surfaces. We also derive a geometric proof of the fact that a complete stable surface with constant mean curvature 1 in the usual hyperbolic space must be a horosphere.