RC-positivity and rigidity of harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds Dedicated to Professor Lo Yang on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

In this paper,we show that every harmonic map from a compact K?hler manifold with uniformly RC-positive curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature is constant.In particular,there is no non-constant harmonic map from a compact Koahler manifold with positive holomorphic sectional curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature.     

Curvature tensors in riemannian manifold—II

In a recent paper author and Mishra [1] have studied the recurrent properties of conformal curvature tensor, conharmonic curvature tensor, concircular curvature tensor and projective curvature tensor in a Riemannian manifold. In another paper author and Mishra [2] have defined a new curvature tensor and obtained its relativistic significance. In this paper the geometrical properties of the new tensor in a Riemannian manifold have been discussed.     

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.     

Diameter estimates for submanifolds in manifolds with nonnegative curvature

Given a closed connected manifold smoothly immersed in a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature, we estimate the intrinsic diameter of the submanifold in terms of its mean curvature field integral. On the other hand, for a compact convex surface with boundary smoothly immersed in a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature, we can estimate its intrinsic diameter in terms of its mean curvature field integral and the length of its boundary. These results are supplements of previous work of Topping, Wu-Zheng and Paeng.     

A curvature identity on a 6-dimensional Riemannian manifold and its applications

We derive a curvature identity that holds on any 6-dimensional Riemannian manifold, from the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a 6-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold. Moreover, some applications of the curvature identity are given. We also define a generalization of harmonic manifolds to study the Lichnerowicz conjecture for a harmonic manifold “a harmonic manifold is locally symmetric” and provide another proof of the Lichnerowicz conjecture refined by Ledger for the 4-dimensional case under a slightly more general setting.     

On the complete decomposition of curvature tensors of Riemannian manifolds with symmetric connection

We give a complete decomposition of the space of curvature tensors with the symmetry properties as the curvature tensor associated with a symmetric connection of Riemannian manifold. We solve the problem under the action ofS0(n). The dimensions of the factors, the projections, their norms and the quadratic invariants of a curvature tensor are determined. Several applications for Riemannian manifolds with symmetric connection are given. The group of projective transformations of a Riemannian manifold and its subgroups are considered.     

Cheeger-gromoll type metrics on the (1,1)-tensor bundles

Using a Riemannian metric on a differentiable manifold, a Cheeger-Gromoll type metric is introduced on the (1,1)-tensor bundle of the manifold. Then the Levi-Civita connection, Riemannian curvature tensor, Ricci tensor, scalar curvature and sectional curvature of this metric are calculated. Also, a para-Nordenian structure on the the (1,1)-tensor bundle with this metric is constructed and the geometric properties of this structure are studied.     

Some Results of Biharmonic Maps

In this paper, we investigate biharmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. We obtain some non-existence results for these maps.     

On the moment-angle manifolds of positive Ricci curvature

We construct Riemannian metrics of positive Ricci curvature on some moment-angle manifolds. In particular, we construct a nonformal moment-angle Riemannian manifold of positive Ricci curvature.     

Stable minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold with pinched negative sectional curvature

We give an estimate of the smallest spectral value of the Laplace operator on a complete noncompact stable minimal hypersurface M in a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with pinched negative sectional curvature. In the same ambient space, we prove that if a complete minimal hypersurface M has sufficiently small total scalar curvature then M has only one end. We also obtain a vanishing theorem for L ² harmonic 1-forms on minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded below by a negative constant. Moreover, we provide sufficient conditions for a minimal hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold with nonpositive sectional curvature to be stable.     

Harmonic maps from closed Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature

It is well known there is no non-constant harmonic map from a closed Riemannian manifold of positive Ricci curvature to a complete Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. By reducing the assumption on the Ricci curvature to one on the scalar curvature, such vanishing theorem cannot hold in general. This raises the question: “What information can we obtain from the existence of non-constant harmonic map?” This paper gives answer to this problem; the results obtained are optimal.     

On a Generalization of Curvature Homogeneous Spaces

Sekigawa proved in 1977 that a 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold which is curvature homogeneous up to order 1 in the sense of I.M. Singer is always locally homogeneous. We deal here with the modification of the curvature homogeneity which is said to be “of type (1, 3)”. We give example of a 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold which is curvature homogeneous up to order 1 in the modified sense but still not locally homogeneous.     

Submersions and curves of constant geodesic curvature

Considering Riemannian submersions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for when sub‐Riemannian normal geodesics project to curves of constant first geodesic curvature or constant first and vanishing second geodesic curvature. We describe a canonical extension of the sub‐Riemannian metric and study geometric properties of the obtained Riemannian manifold. This work contains several examples illustrating the results.     

非负Ricci曲率开流形的拓扑

我们证明了对于具有非负Rieei曲率,大体积增长且内半径下有界的完备n维Riemann流形,只要存在常数C>0使得 则它微分同胚于欧式空间Rn.我们还证明了在某些pinching条件下具有非负射线曲率的完备n维Riemarm流形微分同胚与Rn,改进了已知的结果.     

局部对称空间中具有平行平均曲率向量的黎曼叶层的Pinching定理

本文利用Nakagawa和Takagi的计算散度的方法,求出局部对称空间中具有平行平均曲率向量的黎曼叶状结构${\cal F}$上向量场的散度,并证明了其上的整体Pinching定理.     

Closed manifolds with small excess

In this article, we study closed Riemannian manifolds with small excess. We show that a closed connected Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature and injectivity radius bounded from below is homeomorphic to a sphere if it has sufficiently small excess. We also show that a closed connected Riemannian manifold with weakly bounded geometry is a homotopy sphere if its excess is small enough.     

Convexity and Some Geometric Properties

The main goal of this paper is to present results of existence and nonexistence of convex functions on Riemannian manifolds, and in the case of the existence, we associate such functions to the geometry of the manifold. Precisely, we prove that the conservativity of the geodesic flow on a Riemannian manifold with infinite volume is an obstruction to the existence of convex functions. Next, we present a geometric condition that ensures the existence of (strictly) convex functions on a particular class of complete manifolds, and we use this fact to construct a manifold whose sectional curvature assumes any real value greater than a negative constant and admits a strictly convex function. In the last result, we relate the geometry of a Riemannian manifold of positive sectional curvature with the set of minimum points of a convex function defined on the manifold.     

On two theorems of I. M. Singer about homogenous spaces

A theorem of I. M. Singer [9] states that a Riemannian manifold is locally homogeneous if and only if the Riemannian curvature tensor and its covariant derivatives are the same at each point up to some orderk _M + 1.In the present paper we reprove this theorem by a more direct approach.By using the same approach we also prove, in addition, that a homogeneous Riemannian manifold is completely determined by the curvature and its covariant derivatives at some point up to orderk _M + 2. Moreover, we show how to reconstruct a homogeneous Riemannian manifold only from these curvature data. Finally, we formulate precisely and prove a statement which was announced without proof by Singer in [9].This work was partially supported by the M. P. I. fondi 40%.     

Liouville-type theorems for CC-harmonic maps from Riemannian manifolds to pseudo-Hermitian manifolds

In this paper, we introduce a horizontal energy functional for maps from a Riemannian manifold to a pseudo-Hermitian manifold. The critical maps of this functional will be called CC-harmonic maps. Under suitable curvature conditions on the domain manifold, some Liouville-type theorems are established for CC-harmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold to a pseudo-Hermitian manifold by assuming either growth conditions of the horizontal energy or an asymptotic condition at the infinity for the maps.     

A five-dimensional Riemannian manifold with an irreducible SO(3)-structure as a model of abstract statistical manifold

In the present paper, we consider a five-dimensional Riemannian manifold with an irreducible SO(3)-structure as an example of an abstract statistical manifold. We prove that if a five-dimensional Riemannian manifold with an irreducible SO(3)-structure is a statistical manifold of constant curvature, then the metric of the Riemannian manifold is an Einstein metric. In addition, we show that a five-dimensional Euclidean sphere with an irreducible SO(3)-structure cannot be a conjugate symmetric statistical manifold. Finally, we show some results for a five-dimensional Riemannian manifold with a nearly integrable SO(3)-structure. For example, we prove that the structure tensor of a nearly integrable SO(3)-structure on a five-dimensional Riemannian manifold is a harmonic symmetric tensor and it defines the first integral of third order of the equations of geodesics. Moreover, we consider some topological properties of five-dimensional compact and conformally flat Riemannian manifolds with irreducible SO(3)-structure.