Uniqueness of H-surfaces in {\mathbb{H}}^2 \times \mathbb{R},{{\vert H\vert \leq 1/2}} , with boundary one or two parallel horizontal circles

We prove that a H-surface M in ${\mathbb{H}}^2 \times {\mathbb{R}} ,\vert H\vert \leq 1/2$ , inherits the symmetries of its boundary $\partial M,$ when $\partial M$ is either a horizontal curve with curvature greater than one or two parallel horizontal curves with curvature greater than one, whose distance is greater or equal to π. Furthermore we prove that the asymptotic boundary of a surface with mean curvature bounded away from zero consists of parts of straight lines, provided it is sufficiently regular.     

Invariant submanifolds of Sasakian space forms

In the present study, we consider isometric immersions ${f : M \rightarrow \tilde{M}(c)}$ of (2n + 1)-dimensional invariant submanifold M ²ⁿ⁺¹ of (2m + 1) dimensional Sasakian space form ${\tilde{M}^{2m+1}}$ of constant ${ \varphi}$ -sectional curvature c. We have shown that if f satisfies the curvature condition ${\overset{\_}{R}(X, Y) \cdot \sigma =Q(g, \sigma)}$ then either M ²ⁿ⁺¹ is totally geodesic, or ${||\sigma||^{2}=\frac{1}{3}(2c+n(c+1)),}$ or ${||\sigma||^{2}(x) > \frac{1}{3}(2c+n(c+1)}$ at some point x of M ²ⁿ⁺¹. We also prove that ${\overset{\_ }{R}(X, Y)\cdot \sigma = \frac{1}{2n}Q(S, \sigma)}$ then either M ²ⁿ⁺¹ is totally geodesic, or ${||\sigma||^{2}=-\frac{2}{3}(\frac{1}{2n}\tau -\frac{1}{2}(n+2)(c+3)+3)}$ , or ${||\sigma||^{2}(x) > -\frac{2}{3}(\frac{1}{2n} \tau (x)-\frac{1}{2} (n+2)(c+3)+3)}$ at some point x of M ²ⁿ⁺¹.     

Some Critical Almost Hermitian Structures

Let M be an even dimensional compact smooth manifold admitting an almost complex structure. Let ${{(\lambda, \mu)} \in \mathbb{R}^2 - (0,0)}$ . We discuss the critical points of the functional ${\mathcal {F}_{\lambda, \mu} (J, g) = \int_M (\lambda \tau + \mu \tau^* ) dv_g}$ on the space of all almost Hermitian structures ${\mathcal{AH}(M)}$ on M and its subspace ${{\mathcal{AH}_{c}(M)}}$ with a certain positive constant c, where τ and τ ^* are the scalar curvature and the *-scalar curvature of (J, g), respectively. Further, we provide some examples illustrating our arguments.     

Proper Holomorphic Embeddings of Riemann Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology into ℂ2

We prove that given an open Riemann surface $\mathcal{N}$ of arbitrary (finite or infinite) topology, there exists an open domain $\mathcal{M}\subset \mathcal{N}$ homeomorphic to $\mathcal{N}$ which properly holomorphically embeds in ?². Furthermore, $\mathcal{M}$ can be chosen with hyperbolic conformal type. In particular, any open orientable surface M admits a complex structure $\mathcal{C}$ such that $(M,\mathcal{C})$ can be properly holomorphically embedded into ?².     

On the structure of complete hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold of nonnegative curvature and L 2 harmonic forms

Let M ⁿ be a complete oriented noncompact hypersurface in a complete Riemannian manifold N ⁿ⁺¹ of nonnegative sectional curvature with ${2 \leq n \leq 5}$ . We prove that if M satisfies a stability condition, then there are no non-trivial L ² harmonic one-forms on M. This result is a generalization of a well-known fact in the case when M is a stable minimally immersed hypersurface. As a consequence, we show that if the mean curvature of M is constant, then either M must have only one end or M splits into a product of ${\mathbb{R}}$ and a compact manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature. In case ${n \geq 5}$ , we also show that the same result holds if the absolute value of the mean curvature is less than or equal to the ratio of the norm of the second fundamental form to the dimension of a hypersurface.     

Supports of (\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})-modules of finite type

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra and $\mathfrak{k}$ be a reductive subalgebra in $\mathfrak{g}$ . We say that a $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module if M, considered as a $\mathfrak{k}$ -module, is a direct sum of finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{k}$ -modules. We say that a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module M is of finite type if all $\mathfrak{k}$ -isotopic components of M are finite-dimensional. In this paper we prove that any simple $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module of finite type is holonomic. A simple $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is associated with the invariants V(M), V(LocM), and L(M) reflecting the ??directions of growth of M.?? We also prove that for a given pair $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ the set of possible invariants is finite.     

Notes on von Neumann–Jordan and James Constants for Absolute Norms on {\mathbb{R}^2}

Let ${\|\cdot\|_{\psi}}$ be the absolute norm on ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ corresponding to a convex function ${\psi}$ on [0, 1] and ${C_{\text{NJ}}(\|\cdot\|_{\psi})}$ its von Neumann–Jordan constant. It is known that ${\max \{M_1^2, M_2^2\} \leq C_{\text{NJ}}(\| \cdot \|_{\psi}) \leq M_1^2 M_2^2}$ , where ${M_1 = \max_{0 \leq t \leq 1} \psi(t)/ \psi_2(t)}$ , ${M_2 = \max_{0\leq t \leq 1} \psi_2(t)/ \psi(t)}$ and ${\psi_2}$ is the corresponding function to the ? ₂-norm. In this paper, we shall present a necessary and sufficient condition for the above right side inequality to attain equality. A corollary, which is valid for the complex case, will cover a couple of previous results. Similar results for the James constant will be presented.     

Infinite-dimensional quasigroups of finite orders

Let Σ be a finite set of cardinality k > 0, let $\mathbb{A}$ be a finite or infinite set of indices, and let $\mathcal{F} \subseteq \Sigma ^\mathbb{A}$ be a subset consisting of finitely supported families. A function $f:\Sigma ^\mathbb{A} \to \Sigma$ is referred to as an $\mathbb{A}$ -quasigroup (if $\left| \mathbb{A} \right| = n$ , then an n-ary quasigroup) of order k if $f\left( {\bar y} \right) \ne f\left( {\bar z} \right)$ for any ordered families $\bar y$ and $\bar z$ that differ at exactly one position. It is proved that an $\mathbb{A}$ -quasigroup f of order 4 is reducible (representable as a superposition) or semilinear on every coset of $\mathcal{F}$ . It is shown that the quasigroups defined on Σ^?, where ? are positive integers, generate Lebesgue nonmeasurable subsets of the interval [0, 1].     

Parabolicity of maximal surfaces in Lorentzian product spaces

In this paper we establish some parabolicity criteria for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ , where M ² is a connected Riemannian surface with non-negative Gaussian curvature and ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ is endowed with the Lorentzian product metric ${{\langle , \rangle}={\langle , \rangle}_M-dt^2}$ . In particular, and as an application of our main result, we deduce that every maximal graph over a starlike domain ${\Omega \subseteq M}$ is parabolic. This allows us to give an alternative proof of the non-parametric version of the Calabi–Bernstein result for entire maximal graphs in ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ .     

A Bernstein Property of a Class of Fourth Order Complex Partial Differential Equations

Let ${f:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}}$ be a smooth function on a domain   ${\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}^n}$ with its Hessian matrix ${\left( \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial z^i \partial\bar{z}^j}\right)}$ positive Hermitian. In this paper, we investigate a class of partial differential equations $$\Delta \ln \det (f_{i\bar{j}}) = \beta \;\| \text{grad} \ln \det (f_{i\bar{j}}) \|^2, $$ where Δ and ${\| \cdot \|}$ are the Laplacian and tensor norm, respectively, with respect to the metric ${G = \sum f_{i\bar{j}} \,dz^i \otimes d\bar{z}^j}$ , and β > 1 is some real constant depending on the dimension n. We prove that the above PDEs have a Bernstein property when the metric G is complete, provided that ${\det (f_{i\bar{j}})}$ and the Ricci curvature are bounded.     

Bergman and Calderón Projectors for Dirac Operators

For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$ , we give a new construction of the Calderón projector on $\partial\bar{X}$ and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of L ² harmonic spinors on $\bar{X}$ , and we analyze their Schwartz kernels. Our approach is based on the conformal covariance of $D_{\bar{g}}$ and the scattering theory for the Dirac operator associated with the complete conformal metric $g=\bar{g}/\rho^{2}$ where ρ is a smooth function on $\bar{X}$ which equals the distance to the boundary near $\partial\bar{X}$ . We show that $\frac{1}{2}(\operatorname{Id}+\tilde{S}(0))$ is the orthogonal Calderón projector, where $\tilde{S}(\lambda)$ is the holomorphic family in {?(λ)≥0} of normalized scattering operators constructed in Guillarmou et al. (Adv. Math., 225(5):2464–2516, 2010), which are classical pseudo-differential of order 2λ. Finally, we construct natural conformally covariant odd powers of the Dirac operator on any compact spin manifold.     

Concordance and Isotopy of Metrics with Positive Scalar Curvature

Two positive scalar curvature metrics g ₀, g ₁ on a manifold M are psc-isotopic if they are homotopic through metrics of positive scalar curvature. It is well known that if two metrics g ₀, g ₁ of positive scalar curvature on a closed compact manifold M are psc-isotopic, then they are psc-concordant: i.e., there exists a metric ${\bar{g}}$ of positive scalar curvature on the cylinder ${M \times I}$ which extends the metrics g ₀ on ${M \times \{0\}}$ and g ₁ on ${M \times \{1\}}$ and is a product metric near the boundary. The main result of the paper is that if psc-metrics g ₀, g ₁ on M are psc-concordant, then there exists a diffeomorphism ${\Phi : M \times I \rightarrow M \times I}$ with ${\Phi|_{M \times \{0\}} = Id}$ (a pseudo-isotopy) such that the metrics g ₀ and ${(\Phi|_{M \times \{1\}})^{*}g_{1}}$ are psc-isotopic. In particular, for a simply connected manifold M with dim M ≥  5, psc-metrics g ₀, g ₁ are psc-isotopic if and only if they are psc-concordant. To prove these results, we employ a combination of relevant methods: surgery tools related to the Gromov–Lawson construction, classic results on isotopy and pseudo-isotopy of diffeomorphisms, standard geometric analysis related to the conformal Laplacian, and the Ricci flow.     

The Gauss�CKronecker curvature of minimal hypersurfaces in four-dimensional space forms

Let ${{\mathbb{Q}^4}(c)}$ be a four-dimensional space form of constant curvature c. In this paper we show that the infimum of the absolute value of the Gauss?CKronecker curvature of a complete minimal hypersurface in ${\mathbb{Q}^4(c), c\leq 0}$ , whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below, is equal to zero. Further, we study the connected minimal hypersurfaces M ³ of a space form ${{\mathbb{Q}^4}(c)}$ with constant Gauss?CKronecker curvature K. For the case c ?? 0, we prove, by a local argument, that if K is constant, then K must be equal to zero. We also present a classification of complete minimal hypersurfaces of ${\mathbb{Q}^4(c)}$ with K constant.     

Prescribed diagonal Schouten tensor in locally conformally flat manifolds

We consider the pseudo-euclidean space ${(\mathbb{R}^n, g)}$ , with n ≥  3 and ${g_{ij} = \delta_{ij} \varepsilon_i, \varepsilon_i = \pm 1}$ and tensors of the form ${T = \sum \nolimits_i \varepsilon_i f_i (x) dx_i^2}$ . In this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a diagonal tensor to admit a metric ${\bar{g}}$ , conformal to g, so that ${A_{\bar g}=T}$ , where ${A_{\bar g}}$ is the Schouten Tensor of the metric ${\bar g}$ . The solution to this problem is given explicitly for special cases for the tensor T, including a case where the metric ${\bar g}$ is complete on ${\mathbb{R}^n}$ . Similar problems are considered for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application of these results we consider the problem of finding metrics ${\bar g}$ , conformal to g, such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })}}$ is equal to a given function. We prove that for some functions, f ₁ and f ₂, there exist complete metrics ${\bar{g} = g/{\varphi^2}}$ , such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g }) = f_1}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })} = f_2}$ .     

Geodesic distance for right invariant Sobolev metrics of fractional order on the diffeomorphism group

We study Sobolev-type metrics of fractional order s ≥ 0 on the group Diff _c (M) of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold M. We show that for the important special case M = S ¹, the geodesic distance on Diff _c (S ¹) vanishes if and only if ${s\leq\frac12}$ . For other manifolds, we obtain a partial characterization: the geodesic distance on Diff _c (M) vanishes for ${M=\mathbb{R}\times N, s < \frac12}$ and for ${M=S^1\times N, s\leq\frac12}$ , with N being a compact Riemannian manifold. On the other hand, the geodesic distance on Diff _c (M) is positive for ${{\rm dim}(M)=1, s > \frac12}$ and dim(M) ≥ 2, s ≥ 1. For ${M=\mathbb{R}^n}$ , we discuss the geodesic equations for these metrics. For n = 1, we obtain some well-known PDEs of hydrodynamics: Burgers’ equation for s = 0, the modified Constantin–Lax–Majda equation for ${s=\frac12}$ , and the Camassa–Holm equation for s = 1.     

Wintgen Ideal Surfaces in Four-dimensional Neutral Indefinite Space Form {R^4_2(c)}

For an oriented space-like surface M in a four-dimensional indefinite space form ${R^4_2(c)}$ , there is a Wintgen type inequality; namely, the Gauss curvature K, the normal curvature K ^D and mean curvature vector H of M in ${R^4_2(c)}$ satisfy the general inequality: ${K+K^D \geq \langle H,H \rangle+c}$ . An oriented space-like surface in ${R^4_2(c)}$ is called Wintgen ideal if it satisfies the equality case of the inequality identically. In this paper, we study Wintgen ideal surfaces in ${R^4_2(c)}$ . In particular, we classify Wintgen ideal surfaces in ${R^4_2(c)}$ with constant Gauss and normal curvatures. We also completely classify Wintgen ideal surfaces in ${\mathbb E^4_2}$ satisfying |K| = |K ^D | identically.     

Extinction profile of the logarithmic diffusion equation

Let ${N \geq 3}$ and u be the solution of u _t = Δ log u in ${\mathbb{R}^N \times (0, T)}$ with initial value u ₀ satisfying ${B_{k_1}(x, 0) \leq u_{0} \leq B_{k_2}(x, 0)}$ for some constants k ₁ > k ₂ > 0 where ${B_k(x, t) = 2(N - 2)(T - t)_{+}^{N/(N - 2)}/(k + (T - t)_{+}^{2/(N - 2)}|x|^{2})}$ is the Barenblatt solution for the equation and ${u_0 - B_{k_0} \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 if ${N \geq 4}$ . We give a new different proof on the uniform convergence and ${L^1(\mathbb{R}^N)}$ convergence of the rescaled function ${\tilde{u}(x, s) = (T - t)^{-N/(N - 2)}u(x/(T - t)^{-1/(N - 2)}, t), s = -{\rm log}(T - t)}$ , on ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ to the rescaled Barenblatt solution ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x) = 2(N - 2)/(k_0 + |x|^{2})}$ for some k ₀ > 0 as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ . When ${N \geq 4, 0 \leq u_0(x) \leq B_{k_0}(x, 0)}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , and ${|u_0(x) - B_{k_0}(x, 0)| \leq f \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 and some radially symmetric function f, we also prove uniform convergence and convergence in some weighted L ¹ space in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ of the rescaled solution ${\tilde{u}(x, s)}$ to ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x)}$ as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ .     

Volume preserving mean curvature flow of revolution hypersurfaces between two equidistants

In a rotationally symmetric space ${{\overline M}}$ around an axis ${\mathcal{A}}$ (whose precise definition is satisfied by all real space forms), we consider a domain G limited by two equidistant hypersurfaces orthogonal to ${\mathcal{A}}$ . Let ${M \subset {\overline M}}$ be a revolution hypersurface generated by a graph over ${\mathcal{A}}$ , with boundary in ?G and orthogonal to it. We study the evolution M _t of M under the volume-preserving mean curvature flow requiring that the boundary of M _t rests on ?G and stays orthogonal to it. We prove that: (a) the generating curve of M _t remains a graph; (b) the flow exists as long as M _t does not touch the rotation axis; (c) under a suitable hypothesis relating the enclosed volume and the area of M, the flow is defined for every ${t\in [0,\infty[}$ and a sequence of hypersurfaces ${M_{t_n}}$ converges to a revolution hypersurface of constant mean curvature. Some key points are: (i) the results are true even for ambient spaces with positive curvature, (ii) the averaged mean curvature does not need to be positive and (iii) for the proof it is necessary to carry out a detailed study of the boundary conditions.