On Bochner flat para-Kählerian manifolds

Let B be the Bochner curvature tensor of a para-Kählerian manifold. It is proved that if the manifold is Bochner parallel (? B = 0), then it is Bochner flat (B = 0) or locally symmetric (? R = 0). Moreover, we define the notion of tha paraholomorphic pseudosymmetry of a para-Kählerian manifold. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for a Bochner flat para-Kählerian manifold to be paraholomorphically pseudosymmetric. Especially, in the case when the Ricci operator is diagonalizable, a Bochner flat para-Kählerian manifold is paraholomorphically pseudosymmetric if and only if the Ricci operator has at most two eigenvalues. A class of examples of manifolds of this kind is presented.     

A generalization of K-contact and (k, μ)-contact manifolds

We study a generalization of K-contact and (k, μ)-contact manifolds, and show that if such manifolds of dimensions ≥ 5 are conformally flat, then they have constant curvature +1. We also show under certain conditions that such manifolds admitting a non-homothetic closed conformal vector field are isometric to a unit sphere. Finally, we show that such manifolds with parallel Ricci tensor are either Einstein, or of zero ${\xi}$ -sectional curvature.     

Conformally flat Lorentzian hypersurfaces in ℝ<Stack><Subscript>1</Subscript><Superscript>4</Superscript></Stack> with three distinct principal curvatures

A three dimensional Lorentzian hypersurface x: M ₁ ³ → ? ₁ ⁴ is called conformally flat if its induced metric is conformal to the flat Lorentzian metric, and this property is preserved under the conformal transformation of ? ₁ ⁴ . Using the projective light-cone model, for those whose shape operators have three distinct real eigenvalues, we calculate the integrability conditions by constructing a scalar conformal invariant and a canonical moving frame in this paper. Similar to the Riemannian case, these hypersurfaces can be determined by the solutions to some system of partial differential equations.     

Harnack inequality for degenerate and singular operators of <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian type on Riemannian manifolds

We study viscosity solutions to degenerate and singular elliptic equations of p-Laplacian type on Riemannian manifolds. The Krylov–Safonov type Harnack inequality for the p-Laplacian operators with \(1<p<\infty \) is established on the manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below based on ABP type estimates. We also prove the Harnack inequality for nonlinear p-Laplacian type operators assuming that a nonlinear perturbation of Ricci curvature is bounded below.     

Volume Comparison of Conformally Compact Manifolds with Scalar Curvature <Emphasis Type="Italic">R</Emphasis> ≥ −<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> (<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> − 1)

In this paper, we use the normalized Ricci–DeTurk flow to prove a stability result for strictly stable conformally compact Einstein manifolds. As an application, we show a local volume comparison of conformally compact manifolds with scalar curvature R ≥ ?n (n ? 1) and also the rigidity result when certain relative volume is zero.     

Conformal immersions of warped products

We prove a decomposition theorem for conformal immersions \(f\colon\;M^n\to {\mathbb{R}}^{N}\) into Euclidean space of a warped product of Riemannian manifolds \(M^n:=M_0\times_\rho\Pi_{i=1}^k M_i\) of dimension n ≥ 3 under the assumption that the second fundamental form \(\alpha \colon TM \times TM\to T^\perp M\) of f satisfies \(\alpha|_{TM_i\times TM_j}=0\) for i ≠ j. It generalizes the corresponding theorem of Nölker for isometric immersions as well as our previous result on conformal immersions of Riemannian products. In particular, we determine all conformal representations of Euclidean space of dimension n ≥ 3 as a warped product of Riemannian manifolds. As a consequence, we classify the conformally flat warped products.     

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.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">W</Emphasis>-entropy formulas on super Ricci flows and Langevin deformation on Wasserstein space over Riemannian manifolds

In this survey paper, we give an overview of our recent works on the study of the W-entropy for the heat equation associated with the Witten Laplacian on super-Ricci flows and the Langevin deformation on the Wasserstein space over Riemannian manifolds. Inspired by Perelman’s seminal work on the entropy formula for the Ricci flow, we prove the W-entropy formula for the heat equation associated with the Witten Laplacian on n-dimensional complete Riemannian manifolds with the CD(K,m)-condition, and the W-entropy formula for the heat equation associated with the time-dependent Witten Laplacian on n-dimensional compact manifolds equipped with a (K,m)-super Ricci flow, where K ∈ R and m ∈ [n,∞]. Furthermore, we prove an analogue of the W-entropy formula for the geodesic flow on the Wasserstein space over Riemannian manifolds. Our result improves an important result due to Lott and Villani (2009) on the displacement convexity of the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy on Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. To better understand the similarity between above two W-entropy formulas, we introduce the Langevin deformation of geometric flows on the tangent bundle over the Wasserstein space and prove an extension of the W-entropy formula for the Langevin deformation. We also make a discussion on the W-entropy for the Ricci flow from the point of view of statistical mechanics and probability theory. Finally, to make this survey more helpful for the further development of the study of the W-entropy, we give a list of problems and comments on possible progresses for future study on the topic discussed in this survey.     

Ricci Flow on a Class of Noncompact Warped Product Manifolds

We consider the Ricci flow on noncompact \(n+1\)-dimensional manifolds M with symmetries, corresponding to warped product manifolds \(\mathbb {R}\times T^n\) with flat fibres. We show longtime existence and that the Ricci flow solution is of type III, i.e. the curvature estimate \(|{{\mathrm{Rm}}}|(p,t) \le C/t\) for some \(C > 0\) and all \(p \in M, t \in (1,\infty )\) holds. We also show that if M has finite volume, the solution collapses, i.e. the injectivity radius converges uniformly to 0 (as \(t \rightarrow \infty \)) while the curvatures stay uniformly bounded, and furthermore, the solution converges to a lower dimensional manifold. Moreover, if the (n-dimensional) volumes of hypersurfaces coming from the symmetries of M are uniformly bounded, the solution converges locally uniformly to a flat cylinder after appropriate rescaling and pullback by a family of diffeomorphisms. Corresponding results are also shown for the normalized (i.e. volume preserving) Ricci flow.     

On Ricci flat warped products with a quarter-symmetric connection

In this paper, we have computed the warping functions for a Ricci flat Einstein multiply warped product spaces M with a quarter-symmetric connection for different dimensions of M [i.e; (1). dimM =  2, (2). dimM =  3, (3). \({dim M \geq 4}\)] and all the fibers are Ricci flat.     

Conformal reference frames for Lorentzian manifolds

We define a conformal reference frame, i.e., a special projection of the six-dimensional sky bundle of a Lorentzian manifold (or the five-dimensional twistor space) to a three-dimensional manifold. We construct an example, a conformal compactification, for Minkowski space. Based on the complex structure on the skies, we define the celestial transformation of Lorentzian vectors, a kind of spinor correspondence. We express a 1-form generating the contact structure in the twistor space (when it is smooth) explicitly as a form taking line-bundle values. We prove a theorem on the projection of this 1-form to the fiberwise normal bundle of a reference frame; its corollary is an equation for the flow of time.     

A uniqueness theorem in Kähler geometry

We consider compact Kähler manifolds with their Kähler Ricci tensor satisfying F(Ric) = constant. Under the nonnegative bisectional curvature assumption and certain conditions on F, we prove that such metrics are in fact Kähler–Einstein.     

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.     

Flat coordinates for Saito Frobenius manifolds and string theory

We investigate the connection between the models of topological conformal theory and noncritical string theory with Saito Frobenius manifolds. For this, we propose a new direct way to calculate the flat coordinates using the integral representation for solutions of the Gauss–Manin system connected with a given Saito Frobenius manifold. We present explicit calculations in the case of a singularity of type A _n . We also discuss a possible generalization of our proposed approach to SU(N) _k /(SU(N) _k+1 × U(1)) Kazama–Suzuki theories. We prove a theorem that the potential connected with these models is an isolated singularity, which is a condition for the Frobenius manifold structure to emerge on its deformation manifold. This fact allows using the Dijkgraaf–Verlinde–Verlinde approach to solve similar Kazama–Suzuki models.     

Locally conformal Kähler structures on compact nilmanifolds with left-invariant complex structures

Let (M, g, J) be a compact Hermitian manifold and \(\Omega\) the fundamental 2-form of (g, J). A Hermitian manifold (M, g, J) is called a locally conformal Kähler manifold if there exists a closed 1-form α such that \(d\Omega=\alpha \wedge \Omega\) . The purpose of this paper is to give a completely classification of locally conformal Kähler nilmanifolds with left-invariant complex structures.     

Minimal Reeb vector fields on almost Kenmotsu manifolds

A necessary and sufficient condition for the Reeb vector field of a three dimensional non-Kenmotsu almost Kenmotsu manifold to be minimal is obtained. Using this result, we obtain some classifications of some types of (k, μ, v)-almost Kenmotsu manifolds. Also, we give some characterizations of the minimality of the Reeb vector fields of (k, μ, v)-almost Kenmotsu manifolds. In addition, we prove that the Reeb vector field of an almost Kenmotsu manifold with conformal Reeb foliation is minimal.     

Second variation for L-minimal Legendrian submanifolds in pseudo-Sasakian manifolds

In this paper we provide the second variation formula for L-minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in a pseudo-Sasakian manifold. We apply it to the case of Lorentzian–Sasakian manifolds and relate the L-stability of L-minimal Legendrian submanifolds in a Sasakian manifold M to their L-stability in an associated Lorentzian–Sasakian structure on M.     

Liouville-type theorem for the drifting Laplacian operator

Given manifolds with a smooth measure (M, g, e ^?f dV), we consider gradient estimates for positive harmonic functions of the drifting Laplacian. If the ∞-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and \({|\nabla f|}\) is bounded, we obtain a Liouville-type theorem. This extends a classical result of Cheng and Yau.