Line bundle Laplacians over isospectral nilmanifolds

We show that nontrivial isospectral deformations of a big class of compact Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds can be distinguished from trivial deformations by the behaviour of bundle Laplacians on certain non-flat hermitian line bundles over these manifolds.

     

Existence and Uniqueness Theorem for Slant Immersions and Its Applications

A slant immersion is an isometric immersion from a Riemannian manifold into an almost Hermitian manifold with constant Wirtinger angle. In this paper we establish the existence and uniqueness theorem for slant immersions into complex-space-forms. By applying this result, we prove in this paper several existence and nonexistence theorems for slant immersions. In particular, we prove the existence theorems for slant surfaces with prescribed mean curvature or with prescribed Gaussian curvature. We also prove the non-existence theorem for flat minimal proper slant surfaces in non-flat complex space forms.     

Dynamical properties of the space of Lorentzian metrics

We study the mechanisms of the non properness of the action of the group of diffeomorphisms on the space of Lorentzian metrics of a compact manifold. In particular, we prove that nonproperness entails the presence of lightlike geodesic foliations of codimension 1. On the 2-torus, we prove that a metric with constant curvature along one of its lightlike foliation is actually flat. This allows us to show that the restriction of the action to the set of non-flat metrics is proper and that on the set of flat metrics of volume 1 the action is ergodic. Finally, we show that, contrarily to the Riemannian case, the space of metrics without isometries is not always open.     

Calibrated Embeddings in the Special Lagrangian and Coassociative Cases

Every closed, oriented, real analytic Riemannian3–manifold can be isometrically embedded as a specialLagrangian submanifold of a Calabi–Yau 3–fold, even as thereal locus of an antiholomorphic, isometric involution. Every closed,oriented, real analytic Riemannian 4–manifold whose bundle of self-dual2–forms is trivial can be isometrically embedded as a coassociativesubmanifold in a G₂-manifold, even as the fixed locus of ananti-G₂ involution.These results, when coupledwith McLean's analysis of the moduli spaces of such calibratedsubmanifolds, yield a plentiful supply of examples of compact calibratedsubmanifolds with nontrivial deformation spaces.     

Geography of 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature

We discuss the geography problem of closed oriented 4-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature, and use it to survey mathematical work employed to address Gromov’s observation that manifolds with positive scalar curvature tend to be inessential by focusing on the four-dimensional case. We also point out an strengthening of a result of Carr and its extension to the non-orientable realm.     

Positive isotropic curvature and self-duality in dimension 4

We study a positivity condition for the curvature of oriented Riemannian 4-manifolds: the half-PIC condition. It is a slight weakening of the positive isotropic curvature (PIC) condition introduced by M. Micallef and J. Moore. We observe that the half-PIC condition is preserved by the Ricci flow and satisfies a maximality property among all Ricci flow invariant positivity conditions on the curvature of oriented 4-manifolds. We also study some geometric and topological aspects of half-PIC manifolds.     

A x -operator on complete riemannian manifolds

In this paper we give a generalisation of Kostant’s Theorem about theA _x -operator associated to a Killing vector fieldX on a compact Riemannian manifold. Kostant proved (see [6], [5] or [7]) that in a compact Riemannian manifold, the (1, 1) skew-symmetric operatorA _x =L _x −≡ _x associated to a Killing vector fieldX lies in the holonomy algebra at each point. We prove that in a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) theA _x -operator associated to a Killing vector field, with finite global norm, lies in the holonomy algebra at each point. Finally we give examples of Killing vector fields with infinite global norms on non-flat manifolds such thatA _x does not lie in the holonomy algebra at any point.     

Incompatible elasticity and the immersion of non-flat Riemannian manifolds in Euclidean space

We study a geometric problem that originates from theories of nonlinear elasticity: given a non-flat n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, homeomorphic to a bounded subset of ? ⁿ , what is the minimum amount of deformation required in order to immerse it in a Euclidean space of the same dimension? The amount of deformation, which in the physical context is an elastic energy, is quantified by an average over a local metric discrepancy. We derive an explicit lower bound for this energy for the case where the scalar curvature of the manifold is non-negative. For n = 2 we generalize the result for surfaces of arbitrary curvature.     

Nonnegative curvature and cobordism type

We show that in each dimension n = 4k, k≥ 2, there exist infinite sequences of closed simply connected Riemannian n-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature and mutually distinct oriented cobordism type. W. Tuschmann’s research was supported in part by a DFG Heisenberg Fellowship.     

Lipshitz maps from surfaces

We give a simple procedure to estimate the smallest Lipshitz constant of a degree 1 map from a Riemannian 2-sphere to the unit 2-sphere, up to a factor of 10. Using this procedure, we are able to prove several inequalities involving this Lipshitz constant. For instance, if the smallest Lipshitz constant is at least 1, then the Riemannian 2-sphere has Uryson 1-width less than 12 and contains a closed geodesic of length less than 160. Similarly, if a closed oriented Riemannian surface does not admit a degree 1 map to the unit 2-sphere with Lipshitz constant 1, then it contains a closed homologically non-trivial curve of length less than 4π. On the other hand, we give examples of high genus surfaces with arbitrarily large Uryson 1-width which do not admit a map of non-zero degree to the unit sphere with Lipshitz constant 1. Received: May 2004 Revision: December 2004 Accepted: December 2004     

A characterization of the Â-genus as a linear combination of Pontrjagin numbers

We show in this short note that if a rational linear combination of Pontrjagin numbers vanishes on all simply-connected 4k-dimensional closed connected and oriented spin manifolds admitting a Riemannian metric whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative and not identically zero, then this linear combination must be a multiple of the Â-genus, which improves a result of Gromov and Lawson. Our proof combines an idea of Atiyah and Hirzebruch and the celebrated Calabi–Yau theorem.     

局部对称的黎曼流形中的极小子流形

主要研究了局部对称的黎曼流形中的定向紧致无边极小子流形的内蕴刚性问题,利用一个矩阵不等式,得到了这类子流形的一个刚性定理．所得结果部分改进了已有的一个结论．     

集值Superpramart的上鞅逼近

文中讨论了可积随机集条件期望的若干性质,在此基础上,给出了集值Superpramart的上鞅逼近.同时,证明了集值Superpramart在Kuratowski-Mosco意义下的收敛定理.     

Intrinsic Flat and Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence of Manifolds with Ricci Curvature Bounded Below

We show that for a noncollapsing sequence of closed, connected, oriented Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below and diameter bounded above, Gromov-Hausdorff convergence agrees with intrinsic flat convergence. In particular, the limiting current is essentially unique, has multiplicity one, and mass equal to the Hausdorff measure. Moreover, the limit spaces satisfy a constancy theorem.     

Classification of $$\eta $$-Biharmonic Surfaces in Non-flat Lorentz Space Forms

In this paper, we prove that \(\eta \)-biharmonic surfaces in non-flat three-dimensional Lorentz space forms are isoparametric and give full classification results.     

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures with tangency points

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. We study the relation between the topological invariants of an almost-Riemannian structure on a compact oriented surface and the rank-two vector bundle over the surface which defines the structure. We analyse the generic case including the presence of tangency points, i.e. points where two generators of the distribution and their Lie bracket are linearly dependent. The main result of the paper provides a classification of oriented almost-Riemannian structures on compact oriented surfaces in terms of the Euler number of the vector bundle corresponding to the structure. Moreover, we present a Gauss–Bonnet formula for almost-Riemannian structures with tangency points.     

Curvature and tachibana numbers

The purpose of this paper is to define the rth Tachibana number t _r of an n-dimensional closed and oriented Riemannian manifold (M,g) as the dimension of the space of all conformal Killing r-forms for r = 1, 2, . . . , n ? 1 and to formulate some properties of these numbers as an analog of properties of the rth Betti number b _r of a closed and oriented Riemannian manifold.     

Lazzeri's Jacobian of oriented compact Riemannian manifolds

The subject of this paper is a Jacobian, introduced by F. Lazzeri (unpublished), associated with every compact oriented Riemannian manifold whose dimension is twice an odd number. We study the Torelli and Schottky problem for Lazzeri's Jacobian of flat tori and we compare Lazzeri's Jacobian of Kähler manifolds with other Jacobians.     

The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for vector bundles

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle E of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold M. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special case when M is a Riemannian manifold and E is the tangent bundle of M endowed with the Levi-Civita connection. The proof is based on an explicit geometric construction of the Thom class for 2-plane bundles. Dedicated to the memory of Philip Bell Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9703852.     

On integral formulas for submanifolds of spaces of constant curvature and some applications

Integral formulas of Minkowski type, involving the higher mean curvatures as multilinear forms on the normal bundle, are proved for compact oriented immersed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in a Riemannian manifold of constant curvature, and as application a generalization of the Liebmann-Süss theorem as well as upper bounds for the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplace operator are given.