On Einstein Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature

Let (M, g) be a compact oriented four-dimensional Einstein manifold. If M has positive intersection form and g has non-negative sectional curvature, we show that, up to rescaling and isometry, (M, g) is ₂, with its standard Fubini–Study metric.     

Einstein Metrics with Nonpositive Sectional Curvature on Extensions of Lie Algebras of Heisenberg Type

The purpose of this article is to study some simply connected Lie groups with left invariant Einstein metric, negative Einstein constant and nonpositive sectional curvature. These Lie groups are classified if their associated metric Lie algebra s is of Iwasawa type and s = An₁n₂...n_r, where all n_iare Lie algebras of Heisenberg type with [[n_i,n_j] = {0} for ij. The most important ideas of the article are based on a construction method for Einstein spaces introduced by Wolter in 1991. By this method some new examples of Einstein spaces with nonpositive curvature are constructed. In another part of the article it is shown that Damek-Ricci spaces have negative sectional curvature if and only if they are symmetric spaces.     

New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics on SO(7)/T

The authors compute non-zero structure constants of the full flag manifold M = SO(7)/T with nine isotropy summands, then construct the Einstein equations. With the help of computer they get all the forty-eight positive solutions (up to a scale ) for SO(7)/T, up to isometry there are only five G-invariant Einstein metrics, of which one is Kähler Einstein metric and four are non-Kähler Einstein metrics.     

Compact Homogeneous Einstein 7-Manifolds

This paper is devoted to the classification of seven-dimensional homogeneous Einstein manifolds with positive scalar curvature.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000). 53C25, 53C30.The author was supported by RFBR (codes 02-01-01071, 01-01-06224, 00-15-96165).     

Noncompact Homogeneous Einstein 5-Manifolds

This article is devoted to the classification of noncompact homogeneous Einstein 5-manifolds. In particular, we prove that each noncompact homogeneous Einstein 5-manifolds is locally isometric to some standard Einstein solvmanifoldMathematics Subject Classifications (2000). 53C25, 53C30     

A Class of Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds

A Riemannian manifold (M, g) is called Einstein manifold if its Ricci tensor satisfies r = c·g for some constant c. General existence results are hard to obtain, e.g., it is as yet unknown whether every compact manifold admits an Einstein metric. A natural approach is to impose additional homogeneous assumptions. M. Y. Wang and W. Ziller have got some results on compact homogeneous space G/H. They investigate standard homogeneous metrics, the metric induced by Killing form on G/H, and get some classification results. In this paper some more general homogeneous metrics on some homogeneous space G/H are studies, and a necessary and sufficient condition for this metric to be Einstein is given. The authors also give some examples of Einstein manifolds with non-standard homogeneous metrics.     

Positively Curved Self-Dual Einstein Metrics on Weighted Projective Planes

We classify positively curved self-dual Einstein Hermitian orbifold metrics of Galicki – Lawson on the weighted projective planes. We thus determine which of the 3-Sasakian S¹-reductions of S¹¹ possess canonical variation metrics of positive sectional curvature. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C21, 53C25, 53C26     

Three-Dimensional Lorentz Metrics and Curvature Homogeneity of Order One

In this paper we investigate the existence of three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds which are curvature homogeneous up to order one but which are not locally homogeneous, and we obtain a complete local classification of these spaces. As a corollary we determine, for each Segre type of the Ricci curvature tensor, the smallest k N for which curvature homogeneity up to order k guarantees local homogeneity of the three-dimensional manifold under consideration.     

Generalized Symplectic Mean Curvature Flows in Almost Einstein Surfaces

The authors mainly study the generalized symplectic mean curvature flow in an almost Einstein surface, and prove that this flow has no type-I singularity. In the graph case, the global existence and convergence of the flow at infinity to a minimal surface with metric of the ambient space conformal to the original one are also proved.     

Some New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics on Symmetric Spaces

We classify homogeneous Einstein metrics on compact irreducible symmetric spaces. In particular, we consider symmetric spaces with rank, not isometric to a compact Lie group. Whenever there exists a closed proper subgroup of Isom acting transitively on we find all -homogeneous (non-symmetric) Einstein metrics on .

     

The Heat Kernel on Constant Negative Curvature Space Form

Let M be a n-dimensional simply connected, complete Riemannian manifold with constant negative curvature. The heat kernel on M is denoted by H^M_t(x, y) = H^M_t(r(x, y)), where r(x, y) = dist(x, y). We have the explicit formula of H^M_t(x, y) for n=2, 3, and the induction formula of H^M_t(x, y) for n ≥ 4^{[-1]}. But the explicit formula is very complicated for n ≥ 4. ln this paper we give some simple and useful global estimates of H^M_t(x, y), and apply these estimates to the problem of eigenvalue.     

New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics on SO(7)/T

The authors compute non-zero structure constants of the full flag manifold M = SO(7)/T with nine isotropy summands,then construct the Einstein equations.With the help of computer they get all the forty-eight positive solutions(up to a scale) for SO(7)/T,up to isometry there are only five G-invariant Einstein metrics,of which one is Khler Einstein metric and four are non-Khler Einstein metrics.     

Convex Hulls in Singular Spaces of Negative Curvature

The paper gives a simple example of a complete CAT(–1)-space containing a set S with the following property: the boundary at infinity CH(S)of the convex hull of S differs from S by an isolated point. In contrast to this it is shown that if S is a union of finitely many convex subsets of a complete CAT(–1)-space X, then CH(S) = S. Moreover, this identity holds without restrictions on S if CH is replaced by some notion of almost convex hull.     

李奇曲率平行的黎曼流形的曲率张量模长

李安民和赵国松［１］提出了下面的问题：找出李奇曲率平行的黎曼流形的曲率张量模长的最佳拼挤常数并确定达到该值的流形．本文确定了非爱因斯坦流形的最佳拼挤常数和达到该值的黎曼流形．在ｎ１２时，回答了［１］中提出的问题．     

Ricci Curvature and Fundamental Group

By refined volume estimates in terms of Ricci curvature, the two results due to J. Milnor (1968) are generalized.     

Homogeneous geodesics in solvable Lie groups

After the second author and J. Szenthe [10] proved that every homogeneous Riemannian manifold admits a homogeneous geodesic, several authors studied the set of all homogeneous geodesics in various homogeneous spaces. In this paper, we consider special examples of homogeneous spaces of solvable type of arbitrary odd dimension given in [1] and [7] and we show that their sets of homogeneous geodesics have an interesting structure, closely connected to the notion of Hadamard matrices.     

The Motion of Surface with Constant Negative Gaussian Curvature

In this paper, an approach is suggested to consider the relation between the integrable equation and the motion of surface with constant negative Gaussian curvature.     

Geometrically Formal Homogeneous Metrics of Positive Curvature

A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of harmonic forms is again harmonic, which implies in the compact case that the manifold is topologically formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. A manifold admitting a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature is conjectured to be topologically formal. Nonetheless, we show that among the homogeneous Riemannian metrics of positive sectional curvature a geometrically formal metric is either symmetric, or a metric on a rational homology sphere.