On the existence and nonexistence of extremal metrics on toric Kähler surfaces

In this paper we study the existence of extremal metrics on toric Kähler surfaces. We show that on every toric Kähler surface, there exists a Kähler class in which the surface admits an extremal metric of Calabi. We found a toric Kähler surface of 9 -fixed points which admits an unstable Kähler class and there is no extremal metric of Calabi in it. Moreover, we prove a characterization of the K-stability of toric surfaces by simple piecewise linear functions. As an application, we show that among all toric Kähler surfaces with 5 or 6 -fixed points, is the only one which allows vanishing Futaki invariant and admits extremal metrics of constant scalar curvature.     

The affine Cauchy problem

The aim of this paper is to solve the Cauchy problem for locally strongly convex surfaces which are extremal for the equiaffine area functional. These surfaces are called affine maximal surfaces and here, we give a new complex representation which let us describe the solution to the corresponding Cauchy problem. As applications, we obtain a generalized symmetry principle, characterize when a curve in R³ can be a geodesic or pre-geodesic of a such surface and study the helicoidal affine maximal surfaces. Finally, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of affine maximal surfaces with a given analytic curve in its singular set.     

Constant Scalar Curvature Kähler Surfaces and Parabolic Polystability

A complex ruled surface admits an iterated blow-up encoded by a parabolic structure with rational weights. Under a condition of parabolic stability, one can construct a Kähler metric of constant scalar curvature on the blow-up according to Rollin and Singer (J. Eur. Math. Soc., 2004). We present a generalization of this construction to the case of parabolically polystable ruled surfaces. Thus, we can produce numerous examples of Kähler surfaces of constant scalar curvature with circle or toric symmetry.     

The Geometry of Two Generator Groups: Hyperelliptic Handlebodies

A Kleinian group naturally stabilizes certain subdomains and closed subsets of the closure of hyperbolic three space and yields a number of different quotient surfaces and manifolds. Some of these quotients have conformal structures and others hyperbolic structures. For two generator free Fuchsian groups, the quotient three manifold is a genus two solid handlebody and its boundary is a hyperelliptic Riemann surface. The convex core is also a hyperelliptic Riemann surface. We find the Weierstrass points of both of these surfaces. We then generalize the notion of a hyperelliptic Riemann surface to a hyperelliptic three manifold. We show that the handlebody has a unique order two isometry fixing six unique geodesic line segments, which we call the Weierstrass lines of the handlebody. The Weierstrass lines are, of course, the analogue of the Weierstrass points on the boundary surface. Further, we show that the manifold is foliated by surfaces equidistant from the convex core, each fixed by the isometry of order two. The restriction of this involution to the equidistant surface fixes six generalized Weierstrass points on the surface. In addition, on each of these equidistant surfaces we find an orientation reversing involution that fixes curves through the generalized Weierstrass points.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000). primary 30F10, 30F35, 30F40; secondary 14H30, 22E40.     

On the zero locus of ideals defining the Nash blowup of toric surfaces

We consider the problem of finding an ideal whose blowup defines the Nash blowup of a toric surface and such that its zero locus coincides with the singular set of the toric surface.     

A Note on Shiffman's Theorems

Shiffman proved his famous first theorem, that if A R³ is a compact minimal annulus bounded by two convex Jordan curves in parallel (say horizontal) planes, then A is foliated by strictly convex horizontal Jordan curves. In this article we use Perron's method to construct minimal annuli which have a planar end and are bounded by two convex Jordan curves in horizontal planes, but the horizontal level sets of the surfaces are not all convex Jordan curves or straight lines. These surfaces show that unlike his second and third theorems, Shiffman's first theorem is not generalizable without further qualification.     

Linear precision for parametric patches

We give a precise mathematical formulation for the notions of a parametric patch and linear precision, and establish their elementary properties. We relate linear precision to the geometry of a particular linear projection, giving necessary (and quite restrictive) conditions for a patch to possess linear precision. A main focus is on linear precision for Krasauskas’ toric patches, which we show is equivalent to a certain rational map on \mathbb C\mathbb P^d{\mathbb C}{\mathbb P}^d being a birational isomorphism. Lastly, we establish the connection between linear precision for toric surface patches and maximum likelihood degree for discrete exponential families in algebraic statistics, and show how iterative proportional fitting may be used to compute toric patches.     

Welschinger invariants of toric Del Pezzo surfaces with nonstandard real structures

The Welschinger invariants of real rational algebraic surfaces are natural analogs of the Gromov-Witten invariants, and they estimate from below the number of real rational curves passing through prescribed configurations of points. We establish a tropical formula for the Welschinger invariants of four toric Del Pezzo surfaces equipped with a nonstandard real structure. Such a formula for real toric Del Pezzo surfaces with a standard real structure (i.e., naturally compatible with the toric structure) was established by Mikhalkin and the author. As a consequence we prove that for any real ample divisor D on a surface Σ under consideration, through any generic configuration of c ₁(Σ)D − 1 generic real points, there passes a real rational curve belonging to the linear system |D|. To Vladimir Igorevich Arnold on the occasion of his 70th birthday     

Deformations of smooth toric surfaces

For a complete, smooth toric variety Y, we describe the graded vector space ${T_Y^1}$ . Furthermore, we show that smooth toric surfaces are unobstructed and that a smooth toric surface is rigid if and only if it is Fano. For a given toric surface we then construct homogeneous deformations by means of Minkowski decompositions of polyhedral subdivisions, compute their images under the Kodaira-Spencer map, and show that they span ${T_Y^1}$ .     

A boundedness result for toric log Del Pezzo surfaces

In this paper we give an upper bound for the Picard number of the rational surfaces which resolve minimally the singularities of toric log Del Pezzo surfaces of given index ℓ. This upper bound turns out to be a quadratic polynomial in the variable ℓ. Received: 18 June 2008     

Refined elliptic tropical enumerative invariants

We suggest a new refined (i.e., depending on a parameter) tropical enumerative invariant of toric surfaces. This is the first known enumerative invariant that counts tropical curves of positive genus with marked vertices. Our invariant extends the refined rational broccoli invariant invented by L. Göttsche and the first author, though there is a serious difference between the invariants: our elliptic invariant counts weights assigned partly to individual tropical curves and partly to collections of tropical curves, and our invariant is not always multiplicative over the vertices of the counted tropical curves as was the case for other known tropical enumerative invariants of toric surfaces. As a consequence we define elliptic broccoli curves and elliptic broccoli invariants as well as elliptic tropical descendant invariants for any toric surface.     

Enumerative tropical algebraic geometry in

The paper establishes a formula for enumeration of curves of arbitrary genus in toric surfaces. It turns out that such curves can be counted by means of certain lattice paths in the Newton polygon. The formula was announced earlier in Counting curves via lattice paths in polygons, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 336 (2003), no. 8, 629-634.

The result is established with the help of the so-called tropical algebraic geometry. This geometry allows one to replace complex toric varieties with the real space and holomorphic curves with certain piecewise-linear graphs there.

     

Local Gromov–Witten invariants of cubic surfaces via nef toric degeneration

We compute local Gromov–Witten invariants of cubic surfaces at all genera. We use a deformation a of cubic surface to a nef toric surface and the deformation invariance of Gromov–Witten invariants.     

Local Euler obstructions of toric varieties

We use Matsui and Takeuchi's formula for toric A-discriminants to give algorithms for computing local Euler obstructions and dual degrees of toric surfaces and 3-folds. In particular, we consider weighted projective spaces. As an application we give counterexamples to a conjecture by Matsui and Takeuchi. As another application we recover the well-known fact that the only defective normal toric surfaces are cones.     

On toric locally conformally Kähler manifolds

We study compact toric strict locally conformally Kähler manifolds. We show that the Kodaira dimension of the underlying complex manifold is \(-\infty \), and that the only compact complex surfaces admitting toric strict locally conformally Kähler metrics are the diagonal Hopf surfaces. We also show that every toric Vaisman manifold has lcK rank 1 and is isomorphic to the mapping torus of an automorphism of a toric compact Sasakian manifold.     

Cycles algébriques et topologie des surfaces bielliptiques,réelles

On donne une caractérisation topologique des surfaces réelles totalement algébriques parmi les surfaces bielliptiques. Ceci achève la détermination des surfaces réelles totalement algébriques parmi les surfaces de dimension de Kodaira nulle. On décrit de plus un exemple de surface algébrique complexe qui n'est déformation équivalente à aucune surface possédant une structure réelle totalement algébrique non vide. Using topological data, we give a classification of totally algebraic real surfaces among all the bi-elliptic surfaces. Thus this work comletes the determination of totally algebraic real surfaces among all zero-Kodaira dimensional surfaces. Furthermore we give an example of a complex algebraic surface which is not deformation equivalent to any surface with nonempty totally algebraic structure. Received: January 23, 2002     

Enumerative geometry of elliptic curves on toric surfaces

We establish the equality of classical and tropical curve counts for elliptic curves on toric surfaces with fixed j-invariant, refining results of Mikhalkin and Nishinou–Siebert. As an application, we determine a formula for such counts on P² and all Hirzebruch surfaces. This formula relates the count of elliptic curves with the number of rational curves on the surface satisfying a small number of tangency conditions with the toric boundary. Furthermore, the combinatorial tropical multiplicities of Kerber and Markwig for counts in P² are derived and explained algebro-geometrically, using Berkovich geometry and logarithmic Gromov–Witten theory. As a consequence, a new proof of Pandharipande’s formula for counts of elliptic curves in P² with fixed j-invariant is obtained.     

On embeddings into toric prevarieties

We give examples of complete normal surfaces that are not embeddable into simplicial toric prevarieties nor toric prevarieties of affine intersection.

     

Construction of Surfaces with Parallelism Conditions

In this paper we define the notion of pseudo-parallel parameterized surfaces, extending that of offset surfaces. Then we consider the problem of fitting a set of scattered points with a surface pseudo-parallel to a given reference surface. We propose a method of solution based on a modified version of the classical smoothing D ^m -splines over a bounded domain. The convergence of the method is established and some numerical examples are given.     

Absolute uniqueness of minimal surfaces bounded by contours with a one-to-one projection onto a plane

In this paper the uniqueness of the always existing Douglas-Radó solution to Plateau’s Problem of finding a minimal surface of the type of the disc to a given rectifiable Jordan Curve Γ in ?³ is considered in combination with the question: When is the solution surface also a graph? So only contours with a one-to-one projection onto a plane are candidates. The uniqueness is generalized to all genera and orientations and the non orientable case and then called “absolute”. It is demonstrated, that if it we have a continuous family of catenoids as support surfaces or barriers at the non convex projected part of the C ² contour, assured by the non negativity of a function of the radii of the necks of the catenoids and the contour, the Douglas-Radó solution is absolute unique and a graph. Especially there are no further restrictions to the projection of the contour than C ²-smoothness. As easy first consequences, the earlier result of Sauvigny, using Scherk’s surface as support surfaces for certain contours with a non convex projection, is generalized to absolute uniqueness and the problem initiating, famous uniqueness and existence result in case of a convex projection of Radó, Kneser and Meeks is also carried over to absolute uniqueness. Finally, by a generic example using our mentioned main fruit of investigation, the non necessity of any curvature bound, any bound on function norms, any height bound, and Williams local tangential Lipschitz condition for the whole contour for the existence of a solution for the minimal surface equation or uniqueness of parametric minimal surfaces is shown. This covers more than all known sufficient conditions, i.e. the well known 4π curvature bound of Nitsche, Sauvigny’s uniform concavity-, Lau’s smallness in the C ^0,1-norm condition and Meeks restriction of the deviation from the plane in the C ²-norm. The article is strongly geometrical in spirit so enabling the use of geometrical imagination and intuition in the realms of results and techniques from many different, including very advanced and abstract, mathematical fields. As the proofs are very complete, transparent and proceed in little steps, covering also new elementary results, the article is predestined for educational employment. Especially for its use of the maximum principle in a very sophistcated, long run, merged with topology, way and the new setting of surfaces with a Riemannian structure and usual derivations for handling the non-orientable case.