一组适合于带纵向裂纹柱体圣维南扭转的等参数元素

本文给出一组新的适合于带纵向裂纹柱体圣维南扭转的等参数元素,它们分别是八结点等参数元素、在裂纹尖端具有r-1/2奇异性的“1/4”八结点等参数元素及八结点过渡元素.利用这些元素,对含有径向纵裂纹的圆柱体进行了圣维南扭转计算.计算结果表明,本文给出的等参数元素有较高的精度、较好的收敛性及快的收敛速度,同时还具有程序简单、省机时等优点,所以特别适合于实际的工程计算.     

Special isoparametric orbits in Riemannian symmetric spaces

In the present paper orbits of isotropy subgroups in Riemannian symmetric spaces are discussed. Principal orbits of an isotropy subgroup are isoparametric in the sense of Palais and Terng (seeCritical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988). We show that excepting some special cases, the shape operator with respect to the radial unit vector field determines a totally geodesic foliation on a given principal orbit. Furthermore, we prove that the shape operators and the curvature endomorphisms with respect to the normal vectors commute on these isoparametric submanifolds.     

Generalized Symplectic Mean Curvature Flows in Almost Einstein Surfaces

The authors mainly study the generalized symplectic mean curvature flow in an almost Einstein surface, and prove that this flow has no type-I singularity. In the graph case, the global existence and convergence of the flow at infinity to a minimal surface with metric of the ambient space conformal to the original one are also proved.     

Twisted submersions in nonnegative sectional curvature

In [16], Wilking introduced the dual foliation associated to a metric foliation in a Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature and proved that when the curvature is strictly positive, the dual foliation contains a single leaf, so that any two points in the ambient space can be joined by a horizontal curve. We show that the same phenomenon often occurs for Riemannian submersions from nonnegatively curved spaces even without the strict positive curvature assumption and irrespective of the particular metric.     

Integrable Riemannian Submersion with Singularities

A map of a Riemannian manifold into an euclidian space is said to be transnormal if its restrictions to neighbourhoods of regular level sets are integrable Riemannian submersions. Analytic transnormal maps can be used to describe isoparametric submanifolds in spaces of constant curvature and equifocal submanifolds with flat sections in simply connected symmetric spaces. These submanifolds are also regular leaves of singular Riemannian foliations with sections. We prove that regular level sets of an analytic transnormal map on a real analytic complete Riemannian manifold are equifocal submanifolds and leaves of a singular Riemannian foliation with sections.     

A note on inverse mean curvature flow in cosmological spacetimes

In 12 Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a mean curvature barrier condition and the timelike convergence condition. Furthermore, it is shown in 12 that the leaves of the inverse mean curvature flow provide a foliation of the future of the initial hypersurface.We show that this result persists, if we generalize the setting by leaving the mean curvature barrier assumption out. For initial hypersurfaces with sufficiently large mean curvature we can weaken the timelike convergence condition to a physically relevant energy condition.     

CMC Foliations of Closed Manifolds

We prove that every closed, smooth \(n\)-manifold \(X\) admits a Riemannian metric together with a constant mean curvature (CMC) foliation if and only if its Euler characteristic is zero, where by a CMC foliation we mean a smooth, codimension-one, transversely oriented foliation with leaves of CMC and where the value of the CMC can vary from leaf to leaf. Furthermore, we prove that this CMC foliation of \(X\) can be chosen so that when \(n\ge 2\), the constant values of the mean curvatures of its leaves change sign. We also prove a general structure theorem for any such non-minimal CMC foliation of \(X\) that describes relationships between the geometry and topology of the leaves, including the property that there exist compact leaves for every attained value of the mean curvature.     

等参函数及相关问题研究

著名的Yau 猜想断言单位球面中的紧致嵌入极小超曲面的Laplace 算子的第一特征值等于其维数. 近年来有许多几何学家致力于对Yau 猜想的研究, 但是到目前为止, 已有的结论只是一些关于第一特征值估计的不等式. 作为本文的一个主要结果, 本文证明了对于单位球面中的等参极小超曲面,Yau 猜想是正确的. 进一步地, 对于等参超曲面的焦流形(实际上是球面的极小子流形), 本文还证明了在一定维数条件下, 它的第一特征值也是其维数.
作为本文的第二个主要结果, 以著名的Schoen-Yau-Gromov-Lawson 的关于数量曲率的手术理论为出发点, 本文在一个Riemann 流形的嵌入超曲面处作手术, 构造了一个新的具有丰富几何性质的流形, 称为double 流形. 特别地, 本文在单位球面的极小等参超曲面处实行了这一手术, 发现得到的double 流形不仅有很复杂的拓扑(但其示性类有精确描述), 还存在数量曲率为正的度量, 更重要的是保持了等参叶状结构.
比Willmore 曲面更广泛的定义是Willmore 子流形, 即Willmore 泛函在球面中的的极值子流形.单位球面中的Willmore 子流形的例子在已有文献中是非常罕见的. 作为本文的另外两个主要结果, 通过深入挖掘单位球面上的OT-FKM- 型等参函数的焦流形的性质, 本文发现其极大值对应的焦流形是单位球面的一系列Willmore 子流形; 之后, 本文用几何办法统一证明了单位球面中具有4 个不同主曲率的等参超曲面的焦流形都是单位球面的Willmore 子流形. 这些新的Willmore 子流形是极小的,但一般不是Einstein 的.     

Extrinsic Geometric Flows on Codimension-One Foliations

We study the geometry of a codimension-one foliation with a time-dependent Riemannian metric. The work begins with formulae for deformations of geometric quantities as the Riemannian metric varies along the leaves of a foliation. Then the Extrinsic Geometric Flow depending on the second fundamental form of the foliation is introduced. Under suitable assumptions, this evolution yields the second-order parabolic PDEs, for which the existence/uniqueness and in some cases convergence of a solution are shown. Applications to the problem of prescribing the mean curvature function of a codimension-one foliation, and examples with harmonic and umbilical foliations (e.g., foliated surfaces) and with twisted product metrics are given.     

Non-parametric radially symmetric mean curvature flow with a free boundary

We study the mean curvature flow of radially symmetric graphs with prescribed contact angle on a fixed, smooth hypersurface in Euclidean space. In this paper we treat two distinct problems. The first problem has a free Neumann boundary only, while the second has two disjoint boundaries, a free Neumann boundary and a fixed Dirichlet height. We separate the two problems and prove that under certain initial conditions we have either long time existence followed by convergence to a minimal surface, or finite maximal time of existence at the end of which the graphs develop a curvature singularity. We also give a rate of convergence for the singularity.     

Type I Singularities in the Curve Shortening Flow Associated to a Density

We define Type I singularities for the mean curvature flow associated to a density \(\psi \) (\(\psi \)MCF ) and describe the blow-up at any singular time of these singularities. Special attention is paid to the case where the singularity comes from the part of the \(\psi \)-curvature due to the density. We describe a family of curves whose evolution under \(\psi \)MCF (in a Riemannian surface of non-negative curvature with a density that is singular at a geodesic of the surface) produces only Type I singularities and study the limits of their rescalings.     

Progress in the theory of singular Riemannian foliations

A singular foliation is called a singular Riemannian foliation (SRF) if every geodesic that is perpendicular to one leaf is perpendicular to every leaf it meets. A typical example is the partition of a complete Riemannian manifold into orbits of an isometric action.In this survey, we provide an introduction to the theory of SRFs, leading from the foundations to recent developments. Sketches of proofs are included and useful techniques are emphasized. We study the local structure of SRFs in general and under curvature conditions in particular. We also review the solution of the Palais–Terng problem on integrability of the horizontal distribution. Important special classes of SRFs, like polar and variationally complete foliations and their relations, are treated. A characterization of SRFs whose leaf space is an orbifold is given. Moreover, desingularizations of SRFs are studied and applications, e.g., to Molino?s conjecture, are presented.     

Riemannian Foliations and Eigenvalue Comparison

Eigenvalue comparison theorems for the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold generally give bounds for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue on balls in the manifold in terms of an eigenvalue arising from a geometrically or analytically simpler situation. Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theory assumes bounds on the curvature of the manifold and then compares this eigenvalue to the eigenvalue of a ball in a constant curvature space form. In this paper we examine the basic Laplacian – the appropriate Laplacian on functions that are constant on the leaves of the foliation. The main theorems generalize Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorem and other eigenvalue comparison theorems to the category of Riemannian foliations by estimating the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the basic Laplacian on a metric tubular neighborhood of a leaf closure. Several other facts about the the first eigenvalue of such foliated tubes as well as some needed facts about the tubes themselves are established. This comparison theory, like Cheng's theorem, remains valid for large tubes that are not homotopic to the middle leaf closure and that may have irregular boundaries. We apply these results to obtain upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the basic Laplacian on a closed manifold in terms of curvature bounds and the transverse diameter of the foliation.     

抛物方程的一种广义差分法(有限体积法)

广义差分法自1982年被提出,至今已获得很大发展（见[1]或[10],这种方法在国际上被称为有限体积（元）法（见[8],[9]）,它的主要优点是保持物理量的局部守恒性.文[3],[5]分别将三角形网格上的椭圆型方程的广义差分法（有限体积法）（见[2],[4]）推广到抛物型方程.我们知道三角形网格与四边形网格是两种基本的分割空间区域的方法,实践上使用哪一种网格,要根据空间区域的几何形状而定.文[7],[6]讨论了一般四边形网上椭圆型方程的广义差分法.本文以抛物方程为模型,取试探函数空间为一般四边形剖分上的等参双线性元,检验函数空间为对偶剖分上的分片常数,导出了一种新的有效的广义差分算法（有限体积算法）,证明了半离散与全离散格式的最佳H1误差估计.遇到的主要困难是双线性形式a（uh,Πh＊uh）     

A foliated metric rigidity theorem for higher rank irreducible symmetric spaces

LetF be a foliation of a compact manifold with a transverse invariant measure of finite total mass. We prove that ifF admits a leafwise metric such that every leaf is an irreducible symmetric space of noncompact type and higher rank, then any other leafwise metric of nonpositive curvature is also symmetric along any leaf in the support of the transverse measure. A rank one version of this result is also exposed.The second author is partially supported, by a Seed Grant from The Ohio State University.     

On the Dynamics of Uniform Finsler Manifolds of Negative Flag Curvature

The geodesic flow of a compact Finsler manifold with negative flag curvature is an Anosov flow [23]. We use the structure of the stable and unstable foliation to equip the geodesic ray boundary of the universal covering with a Hölder structure. Gromov's geodesic rigidity and the Theorem of Dinaburg--Manning on the relation between the topological entropy and the volume entropy are generalized to the case of Finsler manifolds.     

Foliations with leaves of nonpositive curvature

We answer a question of Gromov ([G2]) in the codimension 1 case: ifF is a codimension 1 foliation of a compact manifoldM with leaves of negative curvature, thenπ ₁(M) has exponential growth. We also prove a result analogous to Zimmer’s ([Z2]): ifF is a codimension 1 foliation on a compact manifold with leaves of nonpositive curvature, and ifπ ₁(M) has subexponential growth, then almost every leaf is flat. We give a foliated version of the Hopf theorem on surfaces without conjugate points. Partially supported by NSF Grant #DMS 9403870.     

Hyper-Lagrangian submanifolds of Hyperkähler manifolds and mean curvature flow

In this article, we define a new class of middle dimensional submanifolds of a Hyperkähler manifold which contains the class of complex Lagrangian submanifolds, and show that this larger class is invariant under the mean curvature flow. Along the flow, the complex phase map satisfies the generalized harmonic map heat equation. It is also related to the mean curvature vector via a first order differential equation. Moreover, we proved a result on nonexistence of Type I singularity.     

The Minkowski norm and Hessian isometry induced by an isoparametric foliation on the unit sphere

Science China Mathematics - Let Mt be an isoparametric foliation on the unit sphere (Sn?1(1), gst) with d principal curvatures. Using the spherical coordinates induced by Mt, we construct a...     

A gradient flow for the prescribed Gaussian curvature problem on a closed Riemann surface with conical singularity

In this note, we prove that the abstract gradient flow introduced by Baird-Fardoun-Regbaoui [2] is well-posed on a closed Riemann surface with conical singularity. Long time existence and convergence of the flow are proved under certain assumptions. As an application, the prescribed Gaussian curvature problem is solved when the singular Euler characteristic of the conical surface is non-positive.