Scattering Rigidity for Analytic Riemannian Manifolds with a Possible Magnetic Field

Consider a compact manifold M with boundary ∂ M endowed with a Riemannian metric g and a magnetic field Ω. Given a point and direction of entry at the boundary, the scattering relation Σ determines the point and direction of exit of a particle of unit charge, mass, and energy. In this paper we show that a magnetic system (M,∂ M,g,Ω) that is known to be real-analytic and that satisfies some mild restrictions on conjugate points is uniquely determined up to a natural equivalence by Σ. In the case that the magnetic field Ω is taken to be zero, this gives a new rigidity result in Riemannian geometry that is more general than related results in the literature.     

Boundary reducible handle additions on simple 3-manifolds

Let M be a simple manifold, and F be a component of δM of genus two. For a slope γ on F, we denote by M（γ） the manifold obtained by attaching a 2-handle to M along a regular neighborhood of γon F. In this paper, we shall prove that there is at most one separating slope γ on F such that M（γ） is δ-reducible.     

Generalized gluing for Einstein constraint equations

In this paper we construct a family of new (topologically distinct) solutions to the Einstein constraint equations by performing the generalized connected sum (or fiber sum) of two known compact m-dimensional constant mean curvature solutions (M ₁, g ₁, Π₁) and (M ₂, g ₂,Π₂) along a common isometrically embedded k-dimensional sub-manifold (K, g _K ). Away from the gluing locus the metric and the second fundamental form of the new solutions can be chosen as close as desired to the ones of the original solutions. The proof is essentially based on the conformal method and the geometric construction produces a polyneck between M ₁ and M ₂ whose metric is modeled fiber-wise (i. e. along the slices of the normal fiber bundle of K) around a Schwarzschild metric; for these reasons the codimension n : =  m − k of K in M ₁ and M ₂ is required to be  ≥  3. In this sense our result is a generalization of the Isenberg–Mazzeo–Pollack gluing, which works for connected sum at points and in dimension 3. The solutions we obtain for the Einstein constraint equations can be used to produce new short time vacuum solutions of the Einstein system on a Lorentzian (m + 1)-dimensional manifold, as guaranteed by a well known result of Choquet-Bruhat.     

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.     

Global rigidity of holomorphic Riemannian metrics on compact complex 3-manifolds

We study compact complex 3-manifolds M admitting a (locally homogeneous) holomorphic Riemannian metric g. We prove the following: (i) If the Killing Lie algebra of g has a non trivial semi-simple part, then it preserves some holomorphic Riemannian metric on M with constant sectional curvature; (ii) If the Killing Lie algebra of g is solvable, then, up to a finite unramified cover, M is a quotient Γ\G, where Γ is a lattice in G and G is either the complex Heisenberg group, or the complex SOL group. S. Dumitrescu was partially supported by the ANR Grant BLAN 06-3-137237.     

Hyperbolic manifolds with convex boundary

Let (M,∂M) be a 3-manifold, which carries a hyperbolic metric with convex boundary. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on M such that the boundary is smooth and strictly convex. We show that the induced metrics on the boundary are exactly the metrics with curvature K>-1, and that the third fundamental forms of ∂M are exactly the metrics with curvature K<1, for which the closed geodesics which are contractible in M have length L>2π. Each is obtained exactly once. Other related results describe existence and uniqueness properties for other boundary conditions, when the metric which is achieved on ∂M is a linear combination of the first, second and third fundamental forms.     

Isoperimetric regions in spherical cones and Yamabe constants of M ×?S1

We study isoperimetric regions on Riemannian manifolds of the form (M ⁿ × (0, π), sin²(t)g + dt ²) where g is a metric of positive Ricci curvature ≥ n − 1. When g is an Einstein metric we use this to compute the Yamabe constant of (M ×\mathbbR, g+ dt² ){(M \times \mathbb{R}, g+ dt^2 )} and so to obtain lower bounds for the Yamabe invariant of M × S ¹.     

On the geometry of tangent hyperquadric bundles: CR and pseudoharmonic vector fields

We study the natural almost CR structure on the total space of a subbundle of hyperquadrics of the tangent bundle T(M) over a semi-Riemannian manifold (M, g) and show that if the Reeb vector ξ of an almost contact Riemannian manifold is a CR map then the natural almost CR structure on M is strictly pseudoconvex and a posteriori ξ is pseudohermitian. If in addition ξ is geodesic then it is a harmonic vector field. As an other application, we study pseudoharmonic vector fields on a compact strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold M, i.e. unit (with respect to the Webster metric associated with a fixed contact form on M) vector fields X ε H(M) whose horizontal lift X↑ to the canonical circle bundle S¹ → C(M) → M is a critical point of the Dirichlet energy functional associated to the Fefferman metric (a Lorentz metric on C(M)). We show that the Euler–Lagrange equations satisfied by X^↑ project on a nonlinear system of subelliptic PDEs on M. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C50, 53C25, 32V20     

Graded metrics adapted to splittings

Homogeneous graded metrics over split ℤ₂-graded manifolds whose Levi-Civita connection is adapted to a given splitting, in the sense recently introduced by Koszul, are completely described. A subclass of such is singled out by the vanishing of certain components of the graded curvature tensor, a condition that plays a role similar to the closedness of a graded symplectic form in graded symplectic geometry: It amounts to determining a graded metric by the data {g, ω, Δ′}, whereg is a metric tensor onM, ω 0 is a fibered nondegenerate skewsymmetric bilinear form on the Batchelor bundleE → M, and Δ′ is a connection onE satisfying Δ′ω = 0. Odd metrics are also studied under the same criterion and they are specified by the data {κ, Δ′}, with κ ∈ Hom (TM, E) invertible, and Δ′κ = 0. It is shown in general that even graded metrics of constant graded curvature can be supported only over a Riemannian manifold of constant curvature, and the curvature of Δ′ onE satisfiesR ^Δ′ (X,Y)² = 0. It is shown that graded Ricci flat even metrics are supported over Ricci flat manifolds and the curvature of the connection Δ′ satisfies a specific set of equations. 0 Finally, graded Einstein even metrics can be supported only over Ricci flat Riemannian manifolds. Related results for graded metrics on Ω(M) are also discussed. Partially supported by DGICYT grants #PB94-0972, and SAB94-0311; IVEI grant 95-031; CONACyT grant #3189-E9307.     

Contact metric manifolds with <Emphasis Type="Italic">η</Emphasis>-parallel torsion tensor

We show that a non-Sasakian contact metric manifold with η-parallel torsion tensor and sectional curvatures of plane sections containing the Reeb vector field different from 1 at some point, is a (k, μ)-contact manifold. In particular for the standard contact metric structure of the tangent sphere bundle the torsion tensor is η-parallel if and only if M is of constant curvature, in which case its associated pseudo-Hermitian structure is CR- integrable. Next we show that if the metric of a non-Sasakian (k, μ)-contact manifold (M, g) is a gradient Ricci soliton, then (M, g) is locally flat in dimension 3, and locally isometric to E ⁿ⁺¹ × S ⁿ (4) in higher dimensions.      

On metrizable enveloping semigroups

When a topological group G acts on a compact space X, its enveloping semigroup E(X) is the closure of the set of g-translations, g ∈ G, in the compact space X ^X . Assume that X is metrizable. It has recently been shown by the first two authors that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) X is hereditarily almost equicontinuous; (2) X is hereditarily nonsensitive; (3) for any compatible metric d on X the metric d _G (x, y) ≔ sup{d(gx, gy): g ∈ G} defines a separable topology on X; (4) the dynamical system (G, X) admits a proper representation on an Asplund Banach space. We prove that these conditions are also equivalent to the following: the enveloping semigroup E(X) is metrizable.     

Uniform boundedness of level structures on abelian varieties over complex function fields

Let X = Ω/Γ be a smooth quotient of a bounded symmetric domain Ω by an arithmetic subgroup . We prove the following generalization of Nadel's result: for any non-negative integer g, there exists a finite étale cover X_g = Ω/Γ(g) of X determined by a subgroup depending only on g, such that for any compact Riemann surface R of genus g and any non-constant holomorphic map f : R → X_g^* from R into the Satake-Baily-Borel compactification X_g^* of X_g, the image f(R) lies in the boundary ∂X_g: = X^*_g\X_g. Nadel proved it for g = 0 or 1. Moreover, for any positive integer n and any non-negative integer g≥0, we show that there exists a positive number a(n,g) depending only on n and g with the following property: a principally polarized non-isotrivial n-dimensional abelian variety over a complex function field of genus g does not have a level-N structure for N≥a(n,g). This was proved by Nadel for g = 0 or 1, and by Noguchi for arbitrary g under the additional hypothesis that the abelian variety has non-empty singular fibers.     

Systolic volume of hyperbolic manifolds and connected sums of manifolds

The systolic volume of a closed n-manifold M is defined as the optimal constant σ(M) satisfying the inequality vol(M, g) ≥ σ(M) sys(M, g) ⁿ between the volume and the systole of every metric g on M. First, we show that the systolic volume of connected sums of closed oriented essential manifolds is unbounded. Then, we prove that the systolic volume of every sequence of closed hyperbolic (three-dimensional) manifolds is also unbounded. These results generalize systolic inequalities on surfaces in two different directions.      

Einstein–Weyl structures on contact metric manifolds

In this paper we study Einstein-Weyl structures in the framework of contact metric manifolds. First, we prove that a complete K-contact manifold admitting both the Einstein-Weyl structures W ^± = (g, ±ω) is Sasakian. Next, we show that a compact contact metric manifold admitting an Einstein-Weyl structure is either K-contact or the dual field of ω is orthogonal to the Reeb vector field, provided the Reeb vector field is an eigenvector of the Ricci operator. We also prove that a contact metric manifold admitting both the Einstein-Weyl structures and satisfying is either K-contact or Einstein. Finally, a couple of results on contact metric manifold admitting an Einstein-Weyl structure W = (g, f η) are presented.      

Heegaard Genus Formula for Haken Manifolds

Suppose M is a compact orientable 3-manifold and a properly embedded orientable boundary incompressible essential surface. Denote the completions of the components of M – Q with respect to the path metric by M ¹, ...,M ^k . Denote the smallest possible genus of a Heegaard splitting of M, or M ^j respectively, for which ∂M, or ∂M ^j respectively, is contained in one compression body by g(M, ∂M), or g(M ^j , ∂M ^j ) respectively. Denote the maximal number of non-parallel essential annuli that can be simultaneously embedded in M ^j by n _j . Then

A simple proof on the non-existence of shrinking breathers for the Ricci flow

Suppose M is a compact n-dimensional manifold, n≥ 2, with a metric g _ij (x, t) that evolves by the Ricci flow ∂ _t g _ij = −2R _ij in M× (0, T). We will give a simple proof of a recent result of Perelman on the non-existence of shrinking breather without using the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Mathematics Subject Classification (1991) Primary 58J35, 53C44 Secondary 58C99     

Blaschke's rolling theorem for manifolds¶with boundary

For a complete Riemannian manifold M with compact boundary ∂M denote by $\Cut$ the cut locus of $\f M$ in M. The rolling radius of M is roll(M)≔ dist(∂M, ?_{∂ M} ). Let Focal(∂M) be the focal distance of ∂M in M. Then conditions are given that imply the equality roll(M)= Focal(∂M). This generalizes Blaschke's rolling theorem from bounded convex domains in Euclidean space to more general Euclidean domains and to Riemannian manifolds with boundary. Received: 28 August 1998 / Revised version: 8 February 1999     

A x -operator on complete riemannian manifolds

In this paper we give a generalisation of Kostant’s Theorem about theA _x -operator associated to a Killing vector fieldX on a compact Riemannian manifold. Kostant proved (see [6], [5] or [7]) that in a compact Riemannian manifold, the (1, 1) skew-symmetric operatorA _x =L _x −≡ _x associated to a Killing vector fieldX lies in the holonomy algebra at each point. We prove that in a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) theA _x -operator associated to a Killing vector field, with finite global norm, lies in the holonomy algebra at each point. Finally we give examples of Killing vector fields with infinite global norms on non-flat manifolds such thatA _x does not lie in the holonomy algebra at any point.     

Rigidity of Einstein 4-manifolds with positive curvature

An Einstein metric with positive scalar curvature on a 4-manifold is said to be normalized if Ric=1. A basic problem in Riemannian geometry is to classify Einstein 4-manifolds with positive sectional curvature in the category of either topology, diffeomorphism, or isometry. It is shown in this paper that if the sectional curvature K of a normalized Einstein 4-manifold M satisfies the lower bound K≥ε₀, ε₀≡(-23)/120≈0.102843, or condition (b) of Theorem 1.1, then it is isometric to either S ⁴, RP ⁴ with constant sectional curvature K=1/3, or CP ² with the normalized Fubini-Study metric. As a consequence, both the normalized moduli spaces of Einstein metrics which satisfy either one of the above two conditions on S ⁴ and CP ² contain only a single point. In particular, if M is a smooth 4-manifold which is homeomorphic to either S ⁴, RP ⁴, or CP ² but not diffeomorphic to any of the three manifolds, then it can not support any normalized Einstein metric which satisfies either one of the conditions. Oblatum 4-II-1999 & 4-V-2000?Published online: 16 August 2000     

Two-jets of conformal fields along their zero sets

The connected components of the zero set of any conformal vector field v, in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g) of arbitrary signature, are of two types, which may be called ‘essential’ and ‘nonessential’. The former consist of points at which v is essential, that is, cannot be turned into a Killing field by a local conformal change of the metric. In a component of the latter type, points at which v is nonessential form a relatively-open dense subset that is at the same time a totally umbilical submanifold of (M, g). An essential component is always a null totally geodesic submanifold of (M, g), and so is the set of those points in a nonessential component at which v is essential (unless this set, consisting precisely of all the singular points of the component, is empty). Both kinds of null totally geodesic submanifolds arising here carry a 1-form, defined up to multiplications by functions without zeros, which satisfies a projective version of the Killing equation. The conformal-equivalence type of the 2-jet of v is locally constant along the nonessential submanifold of a nonessential component, and along an essential component on which the distinguished 1-form is nonzero. The characteristic polynomial of the 1-jet of v is always locally constant along the zero set.