Standard Embeddings of Smooth Schubert Varieties in Rational Homogeneous Manifolds of Picard Number 1

Smooth Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1 are horospherical varieties. We characterize standard embeddings of smooth Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1 by means of varieties of minimal rational tangents. In particular, we mainly consider nonhomogeneous smooth Schubert varieties in symplectic Grassmannians and in the 20-dimensional F_4- homogeneous manifold associated to a short simple root.     

Geometrically finite groups,Patterson-Sullivan measures and Ratner's ridigity theorem

Summary The rigidity properties of the horospherical foliations of geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds are investigated. Ratner's theorem generalizes to these foliations with respect to the Patterson-Sullivan measure. In the spirit of Mostow, we prove the nonexistence of invariant measurable distributions on the boundary of hyperbolic space for geometrically finite groups. Finally, we show that the frame flow on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds is Bernoulli.partially supported by NSF Grant No. DMS-820-04024partially supported by NSF Grant No. DMS-85-02319     

Horospherical transform on Riemannian symmetric manifolds of noncompact type

We discuss I. M. Gelfand’s project of rebuilding the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups on the basis of integral geometry. The basic examples are related to harmonic analysis and the horospherical transform on symmetric manifolds. Specifically, we consider the inversion of this transform on Riemannian symmetric manifolds of noncompact type. In the known explicit inversion formulas, the nonlocal part essentially depends on the type of the root system. We suggest a universal modification of this operator.     

Harmonic Functions on Rank One Asymptotically Harmonic Manifolds

Asymptotically harmonic manifolds are simply connected complete Riemannian manifolds without conjugate points such that all horospheres have the same constant mean curvature \(h\). In this article we present results for harmonic functions on rank one asymptotically harmonic manifolds \(X\) with mild curvature boundedness conditions. Our main results are (a) the explicit calculation of the Radon–Nikodym derivative of the visibility measures, (b) an explicit integral representation for the solution of the Dirichlet problem at infinity in terms of these visibility measures, and (c) a result on horospherical means of bounded eigenfunctions implying that these eigenfunctions do not admit non-trivial continuous extensions to the geometric compactification \(\overline{X}\).     

Horo-tight spheres in hyperbolic space

We study horo-tight immersions of manifolds into hyperbolic spaces. The main result gives several characterizations of horo-tightness of spheres, answering a question proposed by Cecil and Ryan. For instance, we prove that a sphere is horo-tight if and only if it is tight in the hyperbolic sense. For codimension bigger than one, it follows that horo-tight spheres in hyperbolic space are metric spheres. We also prove that horo-tight hyperspheres are characterized by the property that both of its total absolute horospherical curvatures attend their minimum value. We also introduce the notion of weak horo-tightness: an immersion is weak horo-tight if only one of its total absolute curvature attends its minimum. We prove a characterization theorem for weak horo-tight hyperspheres.     

Flot horosphérique des repères sur les variétés hyperboliques de dimension 3 et spectre des groupes kleiniens

Let Γ be a Kleinian group. The action of the upper unipotent subgroup by right multiplication on Γ\PSL(2,ℂ) is conjugated to a two-dimensional flow on the frame bundle of the hyperbolic manifold Γ\³. We show that the topology of orbits (compactness, divergence, density) is analogous to the topology of the horospherical foliation on hyperbolic manifolds. In order to study dense orbits, we prove a result of "non-arithmeticity" of the spectrum of Kleinian groups. Received: 8 January 2002     

The Cox ring of a complexity-one horospherical variety

Cox rings are intrinsic objects naturally generalizing homogeneous coordinate rings of projective spaces. A complexity-one horospherical variety is a normal variety equipped with a reductive group action whose general orbit is horospherical and of codimension one. In this note, we provide a presentation by generators and relations for the Cox rings of complete rational complexity-one horospherical varieties.     

The Log Minimal Model Program for Horospherical Varieties Via Moment Polytopes

In a previous work, we described the Minimal Model Program in the family of Q-Gorenstein projective horospherical varieties, by studying certain continuous changes of moment polytopes of polarized horospherical varieties. Here, we summarize the results of the previous work and we explain how to generalize them in order to describe the Log Minimal Model Program for pairs(X, Δ) when X is a projective horospherical variety.     

Visibility metrics on the infinity boundary of the complex hyperbolic plane

Limiting spherical and horospherical metrics an the infinity boundary of the complex hyperbolic plane are constructed. It is proved that the limiting spherical metric, which automatically is the Carnot–Carathéodory metric, is also a visibility metric, i.e., it belongs to a canonical class of metrics on the infinity boundary. Bibliography: 6 titles.     

Horospherical transform on real symmetric varieties: Kernel and cokernel

In this paper, we define a horospherical transform for a semisimple symmetric space Y. A natural double fibration is used to assign a more geometrical space Ξ of horospheres to Y. The horospherical transform relates certain integrable analytic functions on Y to analytic functions on Ξ by fiber integration. We determine the kernel of the horospherical transform and establish that the transform is injective on functions belonging to the most continuous spectrum of Y.     

On discrete subgroups containing a lattice in a horospherical subgroup

We showed in [Oh] that for a simple real Lie groupG with real rank at least 2, if a discrete subgroup Γ ofG contains lattices in two opposite horospherical subgroups, then Γ must be a non-uniform arithmetic lattice inG, under some additional assumptions on the horospherical subgroups. Somewhat surprisingly, a similar result is true even if we only assume that Γ contains a lattice in one horospherical subgroup, provided Γ is Zariski dense inG.     

Some aspects of analysis on almost complex manifolds with boundary

We present some results dealing with the local geometry of almost complex manifolds. We establish mainly the complete hyperbolicity of strictly pseudoconvex domains, the extension of plurisubharmonic functions through generic submanifolds, and the elliptic regularity of some diffeomorphisms of almost complex manifolds with boundary. __________ Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 47, Complex Analysis, 2007.     

The horospherical duality

We discuss the horospherical duality as a geometrical background of harmonic analysis on semisimple symmetric spaces.     

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Hessian Comparison and Spectrum Lower Bound of Almost Hermitian Manifolds

The authors obtain a complex Hessian comparison for almost Hermitian manifolds, which generalizes the Laplacian comparison for almost Hermitian manifolds by Tossati, and a sharp spectrum lower bound for compact quasi Kähler manifolds and a sharp complex Hessian comparison on nearly Kähler manifolds that generalize previous results of Aubin, Li Wang and Tam-Yu.     

Classical Symmetries of Complex Manifolds

We consider complex manifolds that admit actions by holomorphic transformations of classical simple real Lie groups and classify all such manifolds in a natural situation. Under our assumptions, which require the group at hand to be dimension-theoretically large with respect to the manifold on which it is acting, our classification result states that the manifolds which arise are described precisely as invariant open subsets of certain complex flag manifolds associated to the complexified groups.     

The horospherical duality

We discuss the horospherical duality as a geometrical background of harmonic analysis on semisimple symmetric spaces.     

Alexander-Pontryagin duality in complex analysis

A duality theorem for coherent analytic sheaves over complex analytic manifolds, the cohomological analog of the Alexander-Pontryagin duality theorem, is proved.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 561–564, April, 1973.The author wishes to express his thanks to V. P. Palamodov for his helpful criticism.     

On the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on manifolds with additional tensor structures and indefinite metrics

This paper is a survey of results obtained by the authors on the geometry of connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion on the following manifolds: almost complex manifolds with Norden metric, almost contact manifolds with B-metric and almost hypercomplex manifolds with Hermitian and anti-Hermitian metric.     

Equivariant deformations of meromorphic actions on compact complex manifolds

Meromorphicity is the most basic property for holomorphic -actions on compact complex manifolds. We prove that the meromorphicity of -actions on compact complex manifolds are not necessarily preserved by small deformations, if the complex dimension of complex manifolds is greater than two. In contrast, we also show that the meromorphicity of -actions on compact complex surface depends only on the topology (the first Betti number) of the surface. We construct such examples of dimension greater than two by studying an equivariant deformation of certain complex threefold, so called a twistor space. Received January 25, 2000 / Published online October 30, 2000