In this paper, we show that a closed manifold $M^{n+1} (ngeq 7)$ endowed with a $C^infty$-generic (Baire sense) metric contains infinitely many singular minimal hypersurfaces with optimal regularity.
{"title":"Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in higher-dimensional closed manifolds with generic metrics","authors":"Yangyang Li","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1686931604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1686931604","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we show that a closed manifold $M^{n+1} (ngeq 7)$ endowed with a $C^infty$-generic (Baire sense) metric contains infinitely many singular minimal hypersurfaces with optimal regularity.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45587256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Let $N$ be a smooth manifold that is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to a closed hyperbolic manifold $M$. In this paper, we study the extent to which $N$ admits as much symmetry as $M$. Our main results are examples of $N$ that exhibit two extremes of behavior. On the one hand, we find $N$ with maximal symmetry, i.e. Isom($M$) acts on $N$ by isometries with respect to some negatively curved metric on $N$. For these examples, Isom($M$) can be made arbitrarily large. On the other hand, we find $N$ with little symmetry, i.e. no subgroup of Isom($M$) of "small" index acts by diffeomorphisms of $N$. The construction of these examples incorporates a variety of techniques including smoothing theory and the Belolipetsky-Lubotzky method for constructing hyperbolic manifolds with a prescribed isometry group.
{"title":"Symmetries of exotic negatively curved manifolds","authors":"Mauricio Bustamante, Bena Tshishiku","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1645207478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1645207478","url":null,"abstract":"Let $N$ be a smooth manifold that is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to a closed hyperbolic manifold $M$. In this paper, we study the extent to which $N$ admits as much symmetry as $M$. Our main results are examples of $N$ that exhibit two extremes of behavior. On the one hand, we find $N$ with maximal symmetry, i.e. Isom($M$) acts on $N$ by isometries with respect to some negatively curved metric on $N$. For these examples, Isom($M$) can be made arbitrarily large. On the other hand, we find $N$ with little symmetry, i.e. no subgroup of Isom($M$) of \"small\" index acts by diffeomorphisms of $N$. The construction of these examples incorporates a variety of techniques including smoothing theory and the Belolipetsky-Lubotzky method for constructing hyperbolic manifolds with a prescribed isometry group.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45108434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We show that if the variety of minimal rational tangents (VMRT) of a uniruled projective manifold at a general point is projectively equivalent to that of a symplectic or an odd-symplectic Grassmannian, the germ of a general minimal rational curve is biholomorphic to the germ of a general line in a presymplectic Grassmannian. As an application, we characterize symplectic and odd-symplectic Grassmannians, among Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, by their VMRT at a general point and prove their rigidity under global K"ahler deformation. Analogous results for $G/P$ associated with a long root were obtained by Mok and Hong-Hwang a decade ago by using Tanaka theory for parabolic geometries. When $G/P$ is associated with a short root, for which symplectic Grassmannians are most prominent examples, the associated local differential geometric structure is no longer a parabolic geometry and standard machinery of Tanaka theory cannot be applied because of several degenerate features. To overcome the difficulty, we show that Tanaka's method can be generalized to a setting much broader than parabolic geometries, by assuming a pseudo-concavity type condition that certain vector bundles arising from Spencer complexes have no nonzero sections. The pseudo-concavity type condition is checked by exploiting geometry of minimal rational curves.
{"title":"Characterizing symplectic Grassmannians by varieties of minimal rational tangents","authors":"Jun-Muk Hwang, Qifeng Li","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1632506422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1632506422","url":null,"abstract":"We show that if the variety of minimal rational tangents (VMRT) of a uniruled projective manifold at a general point is projectively equivalent to that of a symplectic or an odd-symplectic Grassmannian, the germ of a general minimal rational curve is biholomorphic to the germ of a general line in a presymplectic Grassmannian. As an application, we characterize symplectic and odd-symplectic Grassmannians, among Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, by their VMRT at a general point and prove their rigidity under global K\"ahler deformation. Analogous results for $G/P$ associated with a long root were obtained by Mok and Hong-Hwang a decade ago by using Tanaka theory for parabolic geometries. When $G/P$ is associated with a short root, for which symplectic Grassmannians are most prominent examples, the associated local differential geometric structure is no longer a parabolic geometry and standard machinery of Tanaka theory cannot be applied because of several degenerate features. To overcome the difficulty, we show that Tanaka's method can be generalized to a setting much broader than parabolic geometries, by assuming a pseudo-concavity type condition that certain vector bundles arising from Spencer complexes have no nonzero sections. The pseudo-concavity type condition is checked by exploiting geometry of minimal rational curves.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41571614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the first step of proving the Hodge-FVH correspondence recently proposed in [17], we derive the Virasoro constraints and the Dubrovin-Zhang loop equation for special cubic Hodge integrals. We show that this loop equation has a unique solution, and provide a new algorithm for the computation of these Hodge integrals. We also prove the existence of gap phenomenon for the special cubic Hodge free energies.
{"title":"The loop equation for special cubic Hodge integrals","authors":"Si‐Qi Liu, Di Yang, You-jin Zhang, C. Zhou","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1659987894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1659987894","url":null,"abstract":"As the first step of proving the Hodge-FVH correspondence recently proposed in [17], we derive the Virasoro constraints and the Dubrovin-Zhang loop equation for special cubic Hodge integrals. We show that this loop equation has a unique solution, and provide a new algorithm for the computation of these Hodge integrals. We also prove the existence of gap phenomenon for the special cubic Hodge free energies.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45417448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we first introduce quermassintegrals for free boundary hypersurfaces in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean unit ball. Then we solve some related isoperimetric type problems for convex free boundary hypersurfaces, which lead to new Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities. In particular, for $n=2$ we obtain a Minkowski-type inequality and for $n=3$ we obtain an optimal Willmore-type inequality. To prove these estimates, we employ a specifically designed locally constrained inverse harmonic mean curvature flow with free boundary.
{"title":"Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for convex hypersurfaces with free boundary in a ball","authors":"Julian Scheuer, Guofang Wang, C. Xia","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1645207496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1645207496","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we first introduce quermassintegrals for free boundary hypersurfaces in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean unit ball. Then we solve some related isoperimetric type problems for convex free boundary hypersurfaces, which lead to new Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities. In particular, for $n=2$ we obtain a Minkowski-type inequality and for $n=3$ we obtain an optimal Willmore-type inequality. To prove these estimates, we employ a specifically designed locally constrained inverse harmonic mean curvature flow with free boundary.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42972548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recently, Huang, Lutwak, Yang & Zhang discovered the duals of Federer’s curvature measures within the dual Brunn-Minkowski theory and stated the “Minkowski problem” associated with these new measures. As they showed, this dual Minkowski problem has as special cases the Aleksandrov problem (when the index is 0) and the logarithmic Minkowski problem (when the index is the dimension of the ambient space) — two problems that were never imagined to be connected in any way. Huang, Lutwak, Yang & Zhang established sufficient conditions to guarantee existence of solution to the dual Minkowski problem in the even setting. In this work, existence of solution to the even dual Minkowski problem is established under new sufficiency conditions. It was recently shown by Böröczky, Henk & Pollehn that these new sufficiency conditions are also necessary.
{"title":"Existence of solutions to the even dual Minkowski problem","authors":"Yiming Zhao","doi":"10.4310/JDG/1542423629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/JDG/1542423629","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, Huang, Lutwak, Yang & Zhang discovered the duals of Federer’s curvature measures within the dual Brunn-Minkowski theory and stated the “Minkowski problem” associated with these new measures. As they showed, this dual Minkowski problem has as special cases the Aleksandrov problem (when the index is 0) and the logarithmic Minkowski problem (when the index is the dimension of the ambient space) — two problems that were never imagined to be connected in any way. Huang, Lutwak, Yang & Zhang established sufficient conditions to guarantee existence of solution to the dual Minkowski problem in the even setting. In this work, existence of solution to the even dual Minkowski problem is established under new sufficiency conditions. It was recently shown by Böröczky, Henk & Pollehn that these new sufficiency conditions are also necessary.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4310/JDG/1542423629","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41599438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we prove that the generic singularity of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $mathbb R^3$ modelled by closed self-shrinkers with multiplicity has multiplicity one. Together with the previous result by Colding-Minicozzi in [CM12], we conclude that the only generic singularity of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $mathbb R^3$ modelled by closed self-shrinkers is a multiplicity one sphere. We also construct particular perturbation of the flow to avoid those singularities with multiplicity higher than one. Our result partially addresses the well-known multiplicity one conjecture by Ilmanen.
{"title":"Local entropy and generic multiplicity one singularities of mean curvature flow of surfaces","authors":"Ao Sun","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1685121322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1685121322","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we prove that the generic singularity of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $mathbb R^3$ modelled by closed self-shrinkers with multiplicity has multiplicity one. Together with the previous result by Colding-Minicozzi in [CM12], we conclude that the only generic singularity of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $mathbb R^3$ modelled by closed self-shrinkers is a multiplicity one sphere. We also construct particular perturbation of the flow to avoid those singularities with multiplicity higher than one. Our result partially addresses the well-known multiplicity one conjecture by Ilmanen.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44989525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We use the construction of unfolded Seiberg-Witten Floer spectra of general 3-manifolds defined in our previous paper to extend the notion of relative Bauer-Furuta invariants to general 4-manifolds with boundary. One of the main purposes of this paper is to give a detailed proof of the gluing theorem for the relative invariants.
{"title":"Unfolded Seiberg–Witten Floer spectra, II: Relative invariants and the gluing theorem","authors":"Tirasan Khandhawit, Jianfeng Lin, H. Sasahira","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1686931602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1686931602","url":null,"abstract":"We use the construction of unfolded Seiberg-Witten Floer spectra of general 3-manifolds defined in our previous paper to extend the notion of relative Bauer-Furuta invariants to general 4-manifolds with boundary. One of the main purposes of this paper is to give a detailed proof of the gluing theorem for the relative invariants.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48752093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We prove a convergence result for a family of Yang-Mills connections over an elliptic $K3$ surface $M$ as the fibers collapse. In particular, assume $M$ is projective, admits a section, and has singular fibers of Kodaira type $I_1$ and type $II$. Let $Xi_{t_k}$ be a sequence of $SU(n)$ connections on a principal $SU(n)$ bundle over $M$, that are anti-self-dual with respect to a sequence of Ricci flat metrics collapsing the fibers of $M$. Given certain non-degeneracy assumptions on the spectral covers induced by $barpartial_{Xi_{t_k}}$, we show that away from a finite number of fibers, the curvature $F_{Xi_{t_k}}$ is locally bounded in $C^0$, the connections converge along a subsequence (and modulo unitary gauge change) in $L^p_1$ to a limiting $L^p_1$ connection $Xi_0$, and the restriction of $Xi_0$ to any fiber is $C^{1,alpha}$ gauge equivalent to a flat connection with holomorphic structure determined by the sequence of spectral covers. Additionally, we relate the connections $Xi_{t_k}$ to a converging family of special Lagrangian multi-sections in the mirror HyperK"ahler structure, addressing a conjecture of Fukaya in this setting.
{"title":"Adiabatic limits of anti-self-dual connections on collapsed $K3$ surfaces","authors":"V. Datar, Adam Jacob, Yuguang Zhang","doi":"10.4310/JDG/1622743140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/JDG/1622743140","url":null,"abstract":"We prove a convergence result for a family of Yang-Mills connections over an elliptic $K3$ surface $M$ as the fibers collapse. In particular, assume $M$ is projective, admits a section, and has singular fibers of Kodaira type $I_1$ and type $II$. Let $Xi_{t_k}$ be a sequence of $SU(n)$ connections on a principal $SU(n)$ bundle over $M$, that are anti-self-dual with respect to a sequence of Ricci flat metrics collapsing the fibers of $M$. Given certain non-degeneracy assumptions on the spectral covers induced by $barpartial_{Xi_{t_k}}$, we show that away from a finite number of fibers, the curvature $F_{Xi_{t_k}}$ is locally bounded in $C^0$, the connections converge along a subsequence (and modulo unitary gauge change) in $L^p_1$ to a limiting $L^p_1$ connection $Xi_0$, and the restriction of $Xi_0$ to any fiber is $C^{1,alpha}$ gauge equivalent to a flat connection with holomorphic structure determined by the sequence of spectral covers. Additionally, we relate the connections $Xi_{t_k}$ to a converging family of special Lagrangian multi-sections in the mirror HyperK\"ahler structure, addressing a conjecture of Fukaya in this setting.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42240777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold and ${phi_lambda }$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions, $-Delta_gphi_lambda =lambda^2 phi_lambda$. Given a smooth submanifold $H subset M$ of codimension $kgeq 1$, we find conditions on the pair $(M,H)$, even when $H={x}$, for which $$ Big|int_Hphi_lambda dsigma_HBig|=OBig(frac{lambda^{frac{k-1}{2}}}{sqrt{log lambda}}Big)qquad text{or}qquad |phi_lambda(x)|=OBig(frac{lambda ^{frac{n-1}{2}}}{sqrt{log lambda}}Big), $$ as $lambdato infty$. These conditions require no global assumption on the manifold $M$ and instead relate to the structure of the set of recurrent directions in the unit normal bundle to $H$. Our results extend all previously known conditions guaranteeing improvements on averages, including those on sup-norms. For example, we show that if $(M,g)$ is a surface with Anosov geodesic flow, then there are logarithmically improved averages for any $Hsubset M$. We also find weaker conditions than having no conjugate points which guarantee $sqrt{log lambda}$ improvements for the $L^infty$ norm of eigenfunctions. Our results are obtained using geodesic beam techniques, which yield a mechanism for obtaining general quantitative improvements for averages and sup-norms.
{"title":"Improvements for eigenfunction averages: An application of geodesic beams","authors":"Y. Canzani, J. Galkowski","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1689262062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1689262062","url":null,"abstract":"Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold and ${phi_lambda }$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions, $-Delta_gphi_lambda =lambda^2 phi_lambda$. Given a smooth submanifold $H subset M$ of codimension $kgeq 1$, we find conditions on the pair $(M,H)$, even when $H={x}$, for which $$ Big|int_Hphi_lambda dsigma_HBig|=OBig(frac{lambda^{frac{k-1}{2}}}{sqrt{log lambda}}Big)qquad text{or}qquad |phi_lambda(x)|=OBig(frac{lambda ^{frac{n-1}{2}}}{sqrt{log lambda}}Big), $$ as $lambdato infty$. These conditions require no global assumption on the manifold $M$ and instead relate to the structure of the set of recurrent directions in the unit normal bundle to $H$. Our results extend all previously known conditions guaranteeing improvements on averages, including those on sup-norms. For example, we show that if $(M,g)$ is a surface with Anosov geodesic flow, then there are logarithmically improved averages for any $Hsubset M$. We also find weaker conditions than having no conjugate points which guarantee $sqrt{log lambda}$ improvements for the $L^infty$ norm of eigenfunctions. Our results are obtained using geodesic beam techniques, which yield a mechanism for obtaining general quantitative improvements for averages and sup-norms.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42279484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}