Clairaut relation for geodesics of Hopf tubes

Summary In this note we use the Hopf map π: S³ → S² to construct an interesting family of Riemannian metrics h^fon the 3-sphere, which are parametrized on the space of positive smooth functions f on the 2-sphere. All these metrics make the Hopf map a Riemannian submersion. The Hopf tube over an immersed curve γ in S² is the complete lift π^-1(γ) of γ, and we prove that any geodesic of this Hopf tube satisfies a Clairaut relation. A Hopf tube plays the role in S³ of the surfaces of revolution in R^3. Furthermore, we show a geometric integration method of the Frenet equations for curves in those non-standard S³. Finally, if we consider the sphere S³ equipped with a family h^f of Lorentzian metrics, then a new Clairautrelation is also obtained for timelike geodesics of the Lorentzian Hopf tube, and a geometric integration method for curves is still possible.     

Isospectral deformations of metrics on spheres

We construct non-trivial continuous isospectral deformations of Riemannian metrics on the ball and on the sphere in R ⁿ for every n≥9. The metrics on the sphere can be chosen arbitrarily close to the round metric; in particular, they can be chosen to be positively curved. The metrics on the ball are both Dirichlet and Neumann isospectral and can be chosen arbitrarily close to the flat metric. Oblatum 19-VI-2000 & 21-II-2001?Published online: 4 May 2001     

Real analytic convex surfaces with positive topological entropy and rigid body dynamics

Following Knieper and Weiss [9] we exhibit explicit real analytic metrics onS ² andR P ² with positive curvature and positive topological entropy using the dynamics of the rigid body. Supported by the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik and by a travel grant from CDE.     

Harmonic morphisms from the classical compact semisimple Lie groups

In this article, we introduce a new method for manufacturing harmonic morphisms from semi-Riemannian manifolds. This is employed to yield a variety of new examples from the compact Lie groups SO(n), SU(n) and Sp(n) equipped with their standard Riemannian metrics. We develop a duality principle and show how this can be used to construct the first known examples of harmonic morphisms from the non-compact Lie groups , SU ^*(2n), , SO ^*(2n), SO(p, q), SU(p, q) and Sp(p, q) equipped with their standard dual semi-Riemannian metrics.      

Distances between measures from 1-dimensional projections as implied by continuity of the inverse radon transform

Summary Distances between measures on IR ^d are determined from distances between their 1-dimensional projections. The method employed involves considering the 1-dimensional projections to be the Radon transform of the measures. Crucial to the main theorem is a continuity result for the inverse Radon transform. Focus is restricted to the Prohorov, dual bounded Lipschitz and d _k metrics which metrize weak convergence of probability measures. These metrics are related to each other and to the Sobolev norms. The d _k results extend from measures to generalized functions.Partially supported by NSF Grant No. MCS-81-01895Partially supported by NSF Grant No. MCS-82-01627 and support from the Mellon Foundation     

The Riemannian <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript> topology on the manifold of Riemannian metrics

We study the manifold of all Riemannian metrics over a closed, finite-dimensional manifold. In particular, we investigate the topology on the manifold of metrics induced by the distance function of the L ² Riemannian metric—so-called because it induces an L ² topology on each tangent space. It turns out that this topology on the tangent spaces gives rise to an L ¹-type topology on the manifold of metrics itself. We study this new topology and its completion, which agrees homeomorphically with the completion of the L ² metric. We also give a user-friendly criterion for convergence (with respect to the L ² metric) in the manifold of metrics.     

Vafa-Witten bound on the complex projective space

We prove that the largest first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator among all Hermitian metrics on the complex projective space of odd dimension m, larger than the Fubini-Study metric is bounded by (2m(m+1))^1/2. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53C27, 58J50, 58J60.     

On the curvature of homogeneous Kähler metrics of bounded domains

Summary There is an infinite sequence of conditions {H_k} that the curvature tensor of a harmonic space must satisfy. The first one H₁ is the Einstein condition, which is satisfied by a large number of non-harmonic riemannian manifolds. On the other hand, the conditions H_k, for k >1,seem to be much more restrictive. In this paper, we examine conditions H ₁ and H ₂ on the riemannian manifolds obtained endowing a bounded domain inC ⁿ with all possible homogeneous Kähler metrics.     

Quasi-ALE Metrics with Holonomy SU(m) and Sp(m)

Let G be a finite subgroup of U(m),and X a resolution of ^m /G. We define aspecial class of Kähler metrics g on Xcalled Quasi Asymptotically Locally Euclidean (QALE) metrics. Thesesatisfy a complicated asymptotic condition, implying that gis asymptotic to the Euclidean metric on ^m /G away fromits singular set. When ^m /Ghas an isolated singularity,QALE metrics are just ALE metrics. Our main result is an existencetheorem for Ricci-flat QALE Kähler metrics: if G is afinite subgroup of SU(m) and X a crepant resolution of ^m /G, then there is a unique Ricci-flat QALE Kähler metric on X in each Kähler class.This is proved using a version of the Calabi conjecture for QALEmanifolds. We also determine the holonomy group of the metrics in termsof G.     

On Norden Metrics which Are Locally Conformal to Anti-Kählerian Metrics

We build examples of Norden metrics on × S ¹, where R ^{2 n} _n is either a pseudosphere or a pseudohyperbolic space. These turn out to be locally conformal to flat anti-Kählerian metrics, strongly non anti-Kählerian, and with a parallel Lee form. Conversely, any connected complete anti-Hermitian manifold possessing these properties is shown to be locally analytically homothetic to × S ¹.     

Optimal pinching constants of odd dimensional homogeneous spaces

In this article we compute the pinching constants of all invariant Riemannian metrics on the Berger space B ¹³=SU(5)/(Sp(2)×_ℤ2S¹) and of all invariant U(2)-biinvariant Riemannian metrics on the Aloff–Wallach space W ⁷ _1,1=SU(3)/S¹ _1,1. We prove that the optimal pinching constants are precisely in both cases. So far B ¹³ and W ⁷ _1,1 were only known to admit Riemannian metrics with pinching constants .?We also investigate the optimal pinching constants for the invariant metrics on the other Aloff–Wallach spaces W ⁷ _k,l =SU(3)/S¹ _k,l . Our computations cover the cone of invariant T²-biinvariant Riemannian metrics. This cone contains all invariant Riemannian metrics unless k/l=1. It turns out that the optimal pinching constants are given by a strictly increasing function in k/l∈[0,1]. Thus all the optimal pinching constants are ≤.?In order to determine the extremal values of the sectional curvature of an invariant Riemannian metric on W ⁷ _k,l we employ a systematic technique, which can be applied to other spaces as well. The computation of the pinching constants for B ¹³ is reduced to the curvature computation for two proper totally geodesic submanifolds. One of them is diffeomorphic to ℂℙ³/ℤ₂ and inherits an Sp(2)-invariant Riemannian metric, and the other is W ⁷ _1,1 embedded as recently found by Taimanov. This approach explains in particular the coincidence of the optimal pinching constants for W ⁷ _1,1 and the Berger space B ¹³. Oblatum 9-XI-1998 & 3-VI-1999 / Published online: 20 August 1999     

Calibrated Subbundles in Noncompact Manifolds of Special Holonomy

This paper is a continuation of Math. Res. Lett. 12 (2005), 493–512. We first construct special Lagrangian submanifolds of the Ricci-flat Stenzel metric (of holonomy SU(n)) on the cotangent bundle of Sⁿ by looking at the conormal bundle of appropriate submanifolds of Sⁿ. We find that the condition for the conormal bundle to be special Lagrangian is the same as that discovered by Harvey–Lawson for submanifolds in Rⁿ in their pioneering paper, Acta Math. 148 (1982), 47–157. We also construct calibrated submanifolds in complete metrics with special holonomy G₂ and Spin(7) discovered by Bryant and Salamon (Duke Math. J. 58 (1989), 829–850) on the total spaces of appropriate bundles over self-dual Einstein four manifolds. The submanifolds are constructed as certain subbundles over immersed surfaces. We show that this construction requires the surface to be minimal in the associative and Cayley cases, and to be (properly oriented) real isotropic in the coassociative case. We also make some remarks about using these constructions as a possible local model for the intersection of compact calibrated submanifolds in a compact manifold with special holonomy. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53-XX, 58-XX.     

Rigidity for Nonnegatively Curved Metrics on S 2 × R3

We address the question: how large is the family of complete metricswith nonnegative sectional curvature on S ² × R³? We classify theconnection metrics, and give several examples of nonconnection metrics.We provide evidence that the family is small by proving some rigidityresults for metrics more general than connection metrics.

     

On Birkhoff Theorems for Lagrangian invariant tori with closed orbits

We show that a C¹ torus that is homologous to the zero section, invariant by the geodesic flow of a symmetric Finsler metric in T², and possesses closed orbits is a graph of the canonical projection. This result, together with the result obtained by Bialy in 1989 for continuous invariant tori without closed orbits of symmetric Finsler metrics in T², shows that the second Birkhoff Theorem holds for C¹ Lagrangian invariant tori of symmetric Finsler metrics in the two torus. We also study the first Birkhoff Theorem for continuous invariant tori of Finsler metrics in T² and give some sufficient conditions for a continuous minimizing torus with closed orbits to be a graph of the canonical projection. Partially supported by CNPq, FAPERJ, TWAS     

On Higher Eta-Invariants and Metrics of Positive Scalar Curvature

Let N be a closed connected spin manifold admitting one metric ofpositive scalar curvature. In this paper we use the higher eta-invariant associated to the Dirac operator on N in order to distinguish metrics of positive scalar curvature on N. In particular, we give sufficient conditions, involving ₁(N) and dim N, for N to admit an infinite number of metrics of positive scalar curvature that are nonbordant. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 55N22, 19L41.     

On Application of the Partition Distance Concept to a Comparative Analysis of Psychological or Sociological Tests

Abstract

We discuss two distance concepts between q-ary n-sequences, 2 ≤ q < n, called partition distances. This distances are metrics in the space of all partitions of a finite n-set. For the metrics, we study codes called q-partition codes and present a construction of these codes based on the first order Reed–Muller codes. A random coding bound is obtained. We also work out an application of q-partition codes to the statistical analysis of psychological or medical tests using questionnaires.     

A Class of Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds

A Riemannian manifold (M, g) is called Einstein manifold if its Ricci tensor satisfies r = c·g for some constant c. General existence results are hard to obtain, e.g., it is as yet unknown whether every compact manifold admits an Einstein metric. A natural approach is to impose additional homogeneous assumptions. M. Y. Wang and W. Ziller have got some results on compact homogeneous space G/H. They investigate standard homogeneous metrics, the metric induced by Killing form on G/H, and get some classification results. In this paper some more general homogeneous metrics on some homogeneous space G/H are studies, and a necessary and sufficient condition for this metric to be Einstein is given. The authors also give some examples of Einstein manifolds with non-standard homogeneous metrics.     

On Legendre curves in contact 3-manifolds

It is first observed that on a 3-dimensional Sasakian manifold the torsion of a Legendre curve is identically equal to +1. It is then shown that, conversely, if a curve on a Sasakian 3-manifold has constant torsion +1 and satisfies the initial conditions at one point for a Legendre curve, it is a Legendre curve. Furthermore, among contact metric structures, this property is characteristic of Sasakian metrics. For the standard contact structure onR ³ with its standard Sasakian metric the curvature of a Legendre curve is shown to be twice the curvature of its projection to thexy-plane with respect to the Euclidean metric. Thus this metric onR ³ is more natural for the study of Legendre curves than the Euclidean metric.This work was done while the first author was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University.