Variational results on flag manifolds: Harmonic maps, geodesics and Einstein metrics

In this paper, we study variational aspects for harmonic maps from M to several types of flag manifolds and the relationship with the rich Hermitian geometry of these manifolds. We consider maps that are harmonic with respect to any invariant metric on each flag manifold. They are called equiharmonic maps. We survey some recent results for the case where M is a Riemann surface or is one dimensional; i.e., we study equigeodesics on several types of flag manifolds. We also discuss some results concerning Einstein metrics on such manifolds.     

Geodesic orbit metrics on compact simple Lie groups arising from flag manifolds

In this paper, we investigate left-invariant geodesic orbit metrics on connected simple Lie groups, where the metrics are formed by the structures of flag manifolds. We prove that all these left-invariant geodesic orbit metrics on simple Lie groups are naturally reductive.     

满旗流形SO(8)=T上不变爱因斯坦度量

本文研究了迷向表示分为12个不可约子空间的满旗流形SO(8)=T上不变爱因斯坦度量的问题.利用计算机计算满旗流形SO(8)=T爱因斯坦方程组的方法, 得到了满旗流形SO(8)=T上有160 个不变爱因斯坦度量(up to a scale)的结果, 在等距情况下考虑这160个不变爱因斯坦度量, 其中1个是凯莱爱因斯坦度量, 4 个是非凯莱爱因斯坦度量. 推广了只对迷向表示分为小于等于6个不可约子空间的满旗流形上不变爱因斯坦度量的研究.     

On a class of symmetric CR manifolds

We study and classify a large class of minimal orbits in complex flag manifolds for the holomorphic action of a real Lie group. These orbits are all symmetric CR spaces for the restriction of a suitable class of Hermitian invariant metrics on the ambient flag manifold. As a particular case we obtain that the standard compact homogeneous CR manifolds associated with semisimple Levi-Tanaka algebras are symmetric CR-spaces.     

Maps from a Simply Connected Space to Flag Manifold G／T

In this paper the classification of maps from a simply connected space X to a flag manifold G/T is studied. As an application, the structure of the homotopy set for self-maps of flag manifolds is determined.     

On smooth Chas-Sullivan loop product in Quillen's geometric complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds

In [A.J. Baker, C. Ozel, Complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds with some applications to flag varieties, Contemp. Math. 258 (2000) 1-19], by using Fredholm index we developed a version of Quillen's geometric cobordism theory for infinite dimensional Hilbert manifolds. This cobordism theory has a graded group structure under topological union operation and has push-forward maps for complex orientable Fredholm maps. In [C. Ozel, On Fredholm index, transversal approximations and Quillen's geometric complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds with some applications to flag varieties of loop groups, in preparation], by using Quinn's Transversality Theorem [F. Quinn, Transversal approximation on Banach manifolds, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. 15 (1970) 213-222], it has been shown that this cobordism theory has a graded ring structure under transversal intersection operation and has pull-back maps for smooth maps. It has been shown that the Thom isomorphism in this theory was satisfied for finite dimensional vector bundles over separable Hilbert manifolds and the projection formula for Gysin maps has been proved. In [M. Chas, D. Sullivan, String topology, math.GT/9911159, 1999], Chas and Sullivan described an intersection product on the homology of loop space LM. In [R.L. Cohen, J.D.S. Jones, A homotopy theoretic realization of string topology, math.GT/0107187, 2001], R. Cohen and J. Jones described a realization of the Chas-Sullivan loop product in terms of a ring spectrum structure on the Thom spectrum of a certain virtual bundle over the loop space. In this paper, we will extend this product on cobordism and bordism theories.     

Hausdorff dimensions of sets related to Lüroth expansion

We study a class of Finsler metrics which contains the class of P-reducible metrics. Finsler metrics in this class are called generalized P-reducible metrics. We consider generalized P-reducible metrics with scalar flag curvature and find a condition under which these metrics reduce to C-reducible metrics. This generalizes Matsumoto’s theorem, which describes the equivalency of C-reducibility and P-reducibility on Finsler manifolds with scalar curvature. Then we show that generalized P-reducible metrics with vanishing stretch curvature are C-reducible.     

Invariant pseudo-Kähler metrics on generalized flag manifolds

It is well known that a pseudo-Kähler structure is one of the natural generalizations of a Kähler structure. In this paper, we consider signatures of invariant pseudo-Kähler metrics on generalized flag manifolds from the viewpoint of T-root systems.     

具有迷向S曲率Randers度量的几何意义

Riemann流形上的Zermelo航行为Randers度量提供了一个简洁而且清晰的几何背景．在这个背景下D．Bao，C．Robles和Z．Shen对于具有常旗曲率的Randers度量进行了完全分类．这篇论文中，我得到了判定具有特殊曲率性质的Randers度量的两个充分必要条件．从这两个条件出发，我得到了迷向S曲率的Randers度量的几何意义和一系列推论，并且构造了具有迷向S曲率Randers度量的新例子．最后，在Zermelo航行的背景下研究了Berwald型的Raiders度量．     

Integrability of Analytic Almost Complex Structures on Banach Manifolds

We prove that the classical integrability condition for almost complex structures on finite-dimensional smooth manifolds also works in infinite dimensions in the case of almost complex structures that are real analytic on real analytic Banach manifolds. With this result at hand, we extend some known results concerning existence of invariant complex structures on homogeneous spaces of Banach–Lie groups. By way of illustration, we construct the complex flag manifolds associated with unital C^*-algebras.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): primary 32Q60; secondary 53C15, 58B12.     

Results of Liouville type for symphonic maps

We consider a functional of pullbacks of metrics on the space of maps between Riemannian manifolds. Stationary maps for this functional are called symphonic maps ([4], [5]). In this paper we show that any symphonic map is a constant map under some curvature conditions and the finiteness of the symphonic energy.     

Invariant Einstein metrics on flag manifolds with four isotropy summands

A generalized flag manifold is a homogeneous space of the form G/K, where K is the centralizer of a torus in a compact connected semisimple Lie group G. We classify all flag manifolds with four isotropy summands by the use of \mathfrakt{\mathfrak{t}}-roots. We present new G-invariant Einstein metrics by solving explicity the Einstein equation. We also examine the isometric problem for these Einstein metrics.     

Ricci flow on certain homogeneous spaces

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - We study the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow of invariant Riemannian metrics at infinity for generalized Wallach spaces, generalized flag manifolds...     

Note on the existence of almost omplex structures on compact manifolds

In the paper we define a multiplicative genus of a compact orientable manifold. We use this genus for the study of the existence of almost complex structures on manifolds. A few applications are given, namely, we prove the nonexistence of an almost complex structure on quaternionic flag manifolds and give a theorem on the existence of an almost complex structure on the product of manifolds.     

Affine compact almost-homogeneous manifolds of cohomogeneity one

This paper is one in a series generalizing our results in [12, 14, 15, 20] on the existence of extremal metrics to the general almost-homogeneous manifolds of cohomogeneity one. In this paper, we consider the affine cases with hypersurface ends. In particular, we study the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on these manifolds and obtain new Kähler-Einstein manifolds as well as Fano manifolds without Kähler-Einstein metrics. As a consequence of our study, we also give a solution to the problem posted by Ahiezer on the nonhomogeneity of compact almost-homogeneous manifolds of cohomogeneity one; this clarifies the classification of these manifolds as complex manifolds. We also consider Fano properties of the affine compact manifolds.     

On a class of weakly Einstein Finsler metrics

In this paper we study a special class of Finsler metrics—m-Kropina metrics which are defined by a Riemannian metric and a 1-form. We prove that a weakly Einstein m-Kropina metric must be Einsteinian. Further, we characterize Einstein m-Kropina metrics in very simple conditions under a suitable deformation, and obtain the local structures of m-Kropina metrics which are of constant flag curvature and locally projectively flat with constant flag curvature respectively.     

On Fredholm index, transversal approximations and Quillen's geometric complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds with some applications to flag varieties of loop groups

In [Contemp. Math. 258 (2000) 1-19], by using Fredholm index we developed a version of Quillen's geometric cobordism theory for infinite dimensional Hilbert manifolds. This cobordism theory has a graded group structure under topological union operation and has push-forward maps for complex orientable Fredholm maps. In this work, by using Quinn's Transversality Theorem [Proc. Sympos. Pure. Math. 15 (1970) 213-222], it will be shown that this cobordism theory has a graded ring structure under transversal intersection operation and has pull-back maps for smooth maps. It will be shown that the Thom isomorphism in this theory will be satisfied for finite dimensional vector bundles over separable Hilbert manifolds and the projection formula for Gysin maps will be proved. After we discuss the relation between this theory and classical cobordism, we describe some applications to the complex cobordism of flag varieties of loop groups and we do some calculations.     

Einstein metrics on five-dimensional Seifert bundles

The aim of this article is to study Seifert bundle structures on simply connected 5-manifolds. We classify all such 5-manifolds which admit a positive Seifert bundle structure, and in a few cases all Seifert bundle structures are also classified. These results are then used to construct positive Ricci curvature Einstein metrics on these manifolds. The proof has 4 main steps. First, the study of the Leray spectral sequence of the Seifert bundle, based on work of Orlik-Wagreich. Second, the study of log Del Pezzo surfaces. Third, the construction of Kähler-Einstein metrics on Del Pezzo orbifolds using the algebraic existence criterion of Demailly-Kollár. Fourth, the lifting of the Kähler-Einstein metric on the base of a Seifert bundle to an Einstein metric on the total space using the Kobayashi-Boyer-Galicki method.     

Rotationally symmetric symphonic maps

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - We consider a functional of pullbacks of metrics on the space of maps f between Riemannian manifolds. Harmonic maps are stationary points of the energy...