Space filling curves and geodesic laminations

In this paper we study a class of connected fractals that admit a space filling curve. We prove that these curves are Hölder continuous and measure preserving. To these space filling curves we associate geodesic laminations satisfying among other properties that points joined by geodesics have the same image in the fractal under the space filling curve. The laminations help us to understand the geometry of the curves. We define an expanding dynamical system on the laminations.     

Singular limit laminations, Morse index, and positive scalar curvature

For any 3-manifold M³ and any nonnegative integer g, we give here examples of metrics on M each of which has a sequence of embedded minimal surfaces of genus g and without Morse index bounds. On any spherical space form we construct such a metric with positive scalar curvature. More generally, we construct such a metric with Scal>0 (and such surfaces) on any 3-manifold which carries a metric with Scal>0.     

Topological Loewner theory on Riemann surfaces

We prove that topological evolution families on a Riemann surface S are rather trivial unless S is conformally equivalent to the unit disc or the punctuated unit disc. We also prove that, except for the torus where there is no non-trivial continuous Loewner chain, there is a topological evolution family associated to any topological Loewner chain and, conversely, any topological evolution family comes from a topological Loewner chain on the same Riemann surface.     

Topological Fukaya categories of surfaces

We construct the topological Fukaya category of a surface with genus greater than one, making this model intrinsic to the topology of the surface. Instead of using the area form of the surface, we use an admissibility condition borrowed from Heegaard-Floer theory which ensures invariance under isotopy. In this paper we show finiteness of the moduli space using purely topological means and compute the Grothendieck group of the topological Fukaya category. We also show the faithfulness of MCG-action on the topological Fukaya category in this setup.     

Minimal surfaces and particles in 3-manifolds

We consider 3-dimensional anti-de Sitter manifolds with conical singularities along time-like lines, which is what in the physics literature is known as manifolds with particles. We show that the space of such cone-manifolds is parametrized by the cotangent bundle of Teichmüller space, and that moreover such cone-manifolds have a canonical foliation by space-like surfaces. We extend these results to de Sitter and Minkowski cone-manifolds, as well as to some related “quasifuchsian” hyperbolic manifolds with conical singularities along infinite lines, in this later case under the condition that they contain a minimal surface with principal curvatures less than 1. In the hyperbolic case the space of such cone-manifolds turns out to be parametrized by an open subset in the cotangent bundle of Teichmüller space. For all settings, the symplectic form on the moduli space of 3-manifolds that comes from parameterization by the cotangent bundle of Teichmüller space is the same as the 3-dimensional gravity one. The proofs use minimal (or maximal, or CMC) surfaces, along with some results of Mess on AdS manifolds, which are recovered here in a different way, using differential-geometric methods and a result of Labourie on some mappings between hyperbolic surfaces, that allows an extension to cone-manifolds.      

Nonrigidity of hyperbolic surfaces laminations

In this paper we prove infinite dimensionality of the Teichmüller space of a hyperbolic Riemann surface lamination of a compact space having a simply connected leaf.

     

The geometry at infinity of a hyperbolic Riemann surface of infinite type

We study geodesics on planar Riemann surfaces of infinite type having a single infinite end. Of particular interest is the class of geodesics that go out the infinite end in a most efficient manner. We investigate properties of these geodesics and relate them to the structure of the boundary of a Dirichlet polygon for a Fuchsian group representing the surface.      

Complete linear Weingarten surfaces of Bryant type. A Plateau problem at infinity

In this paper we study a large class of Weingarten surfaces which includes the constant mean curvature one surfaces and flat surfaces in the hyperbolic 3-space. We show that these surfaces can be parametrized by holomorphic data like minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space and we use it to study their completeness. We also establish some existence and uniqueness theorems by studing the Plateau problem at infinity: when is a given curve on the ideal boundary the asymptotic boundary of a complete surface in our family? and, how many embedded solutions are there?

     

Topological entropy for geodesic flows on fibre bundles over rationally hyperbolic manifolds

Let be the total space of a fibre bundle with base a simply connected manifold whose loop space homology grows exponentially for a given coefficient field. Then we show that for any Riemannian metric on , the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of is positive. It follows then, that there exist closed manifolds with arbitrary fundamental group, for which the geodesic flow of any Riemannian metric on has positive topological entropy.

     

The concept of hyperellipticity on surfaces with nodes

A surface with nodes X is hyperelliptic if there exists an involution such that the genus of X/〈h〉 is 0. We prove that this definition is equivalent, as in the category of surfaces without nodes, to the existence of a degree 2 morphism satisfying an additional condition where the genus of Y is 0. Other question is if the hyperelliptic involution is unique or not. We shall prove that the hyperelliptic involution is unique in the case of stable Riemann surfaces but is not unique in the case of Klein surfaces with nodes. Finally, we shall prove that a complex double of a hyperelliptic Klein surface with nodes could not be hyperelliptic.     

Topologically minimal surfaces versus self-amalgamated Heegaard surfaces

Let V ∪SW be a Heegaard splitting of M,such that αM = α-W = F1 ∪ F2 and g(S) = 2g(F1)= 2g(F2). Let V * ∪S*W * be the self-amalgamation of V ∪SW. We show if d(S) 3 then S* is not a topologically minimal surface.     

Designing approximation minimal parametric surfaces with geodesics

Geodesic is an important curve in practical application, especially in shoe design and garment design. In practical applications, we not only hope the shoe and garment surfaces possess characteristic curves, but also we hope minimal cost of material to build surfaces. In this paper, we combine the geodesic and minimal surface. We study the approximation minimal surface with geodesics by using Dirichlet function. The extremal of such a function can be easily computed as the solutions of linear systems, which avoid the high nonlinearity of the area function. They are not extremal of the area function but they are a fine approximation in some cases.     

Lengths of geodesics on non-orientable hyperbolic surfaces

We give an identity involving sums of functions of lengths of simple closed geodesics, known as a McShane identity, on any non-orientable hyperbolic surface with boundary which generalises Mirzakhani’s identities on orientable hyperbolic surfaces with boundary.      

Gauss-Prym maps on Enriques surfaces

We prove that the kth Gaussian map ${\gamma }_H^k$ is surjective on a polarized unnodal Enriques surface $(S,H)$ with $\phi (H)>2k+4$. In particular, as a consequence, when $\phi (H)>4(k+2)$, we obtain the surjectivity of the kth Gauss-Prym map ${\gamma }_{{\omega }_C\otimes \alpha }^k$, with $\alpha :={\omega }_{{S|}_C}$, on smooth hyperplane sections $C\in |H|$. In case $k=1$, it is sufficient to ask $\phi (H)>6$.     

Examples of almost-holomorphic and totally real laminations in complex surfaces

We show that there exists a Lipschitz almost-complex structure J on CP², arbitrarily close to the standard one, and a compact lamination by J-holomorphic curves satisfying the following properties: it is minimal, it has hyperbolic holonomy and it is transversally Lipschitz. Its transverse Hausdorff dimension can be any number δ in an interval (0,δ_max) where . We also show that there is a compact lamination by totally real surfaces in C² with the same properties, unless the transverse dimension can be any number 0<δ<1. Our laminations are transversally totally disconnected.     

Singular rational curves on elliptic K3 surfaces

We show that on every elliptic K3 surface there are rational curves ${(R_i)}_{i\in \mathbb{N}}$ such that $R_i^2\to \infty$, that is, of unbounded arithmetic genus. Moreover, we show that the union of the lifts of these curves to $\mathbb{P}({\mathrm{\Omega }}_X)$ is dense in the Zariski topology. As an application, we give a simple proof of a theorem of Kobayashi in the elliptic case, that is, there are no globally defined symmetric differential forms.     

Curves on normal surfaces

We study locally Cohen-Macaulay space curves lying on normal surfaces. We prove some theorems on the behaviour of the cohomology functions and initial ideals of such space curves, which give a basic distinction between those curves and curves lying on non-normal surfaces.