G. Belletti, Renaud Detcherry, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Tian Yang
{"title":"Growth of quantum $6j$-symbols and applications to the volume conjecture","authors":"G. Belletti, Renaud Detcherry, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Tian Yang","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1645207506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1645207506","url":null,"abstract":"We prove the Turaev-Viro invariants volume conjecture for complements of fundamental shadow links: an infinite family of hyperbolic link complements in connected sums of copies of $S^1times S^2$. The main step of the proof is to find a sharp upper bound on the growth rate of the quantum $6j-$symbol evaluated at $e^{frac{2pi i}{r}}.$ As an application of the main result, we show that the volume of any hyperbolic 3-manifold with empty or toroidal boundary can be estimated in terms of the Turaev-Viro invariants of an appropriate link contained in it. We also build additional evidence for a conjecture of Andersen, Masbaum and Ueno (AMU conjecture) about the geometric properties of surface mapping class groups detected by the quantum representations.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43976923","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}
{"title":"Blowups and blowdowns of geodesics in Carnot groups","authors":"Eero Hakavuori, E. Donne","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1680883578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1680883578","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides some partial regularity results for geodesics (i.e., isometric images of intervals) in arbitrary sub-Riemannian and sub-Finsler manifolds. Our strategy is to study infinitesimal and asymptotic properties of geodesics in Carnot groups equipped with arbitrary sub-Finsler metrics. We show that tangents of Carnot geodesics are geodesics in some groups of lower nilpotency step. Namely, every blowup curve of every geodesic in every Carnot group is still a geodesic in the group modulo its last layer. Then as a consequence we get that in every sub-Riemannian manifold any $s$ times iterated tangent of any geodesic is a line, where $s$ is the step of the sub-Riemannian manifold in question. With a similar approach, we also show that blowdown curves of geodesics in sub-Riemannian Carnot groups are contained in subgroups of lower rank. This latter result is also extended to rough geodesics.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43756235","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}
{"title":"Weakly symmetric pseudo–Riemannian nilmanifolds","authors":"J. Wolf, Zhiqi Chen","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1664378619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1664378619","url":null,"abstract":"In an earlier paper we developed the classification of weakly symmetric pseudo--riemannian manifolds $G/H$ where $G$ is a semisimple Lie group and $H$ is a reductive subgroup. We derived the classification from the cases where $G$ is compact. As a consequence we obtained the classification of semisimple weakly symmetric manifolds of Lorentz signature $(n-1,1)$ and trans--lorentzian signature $(n-2,2)$. Here we work out the classification of weakly symmetric pseudo--riemannian nilmanifolds $G/H$ from the classification for the case $G = Nrtimes H$ with $H$ compact and $N$ nilpotent. It turns out that there is a plethora of new examples that merit further study. Starting with that riemannian case, we see just when a given involutive automorphism of $H$ extends to an involutive automorphism of $G$, and we show that any two such extensions result in isometric pseudo--riemannian nilmanifolds. The results are tabulated in the last two sections of the paper.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135438","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}
{"title":"Poles of cubic differentials and ends of convex $mathbb{RP}^2$-surfaces","authors":"Xin Nie","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1679503805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1679503805","url":null,"abstract":"On any oriented surface, the affine sphere construction gives a one-to-one correspondence between convex $mathbb{RP}^2$-structures and holomorphic cubic differentials. Generalizing results of Benoist-Hulin, Loftin and Dumas-Wolf, we show that poles of order less than $3$ of cubic differentials correspond to finite volume ends of convex $mathbb{RP}^2$-structures, while poles of order at least $3$ correspond to geodesic or piecewise geodesic boundary components. More specifically, in the latter situation, we prove asymptotic results for the convex $mathbb{RP}^2$-structure around the pole in terms of the cubic differential.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379947","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}
Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, T. Ekholm, D. Tonkonog
{"title":"Refined disk potentials for immersed Lagrangian surfaces","authors":"Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, T. Ekholm, D. Tonkonog","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1664378618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1664378618","url":null,"abstract":"We define a refined Gromov-Witten disk potential of self-transverse monotone immersed Lagrangian surfaces in a symplectic 4-manifold as an element in a capped version of the Chekanov--Eliashberg dg-algebra of the singularity links of the double points (a collection of Legendrian Hopf links). We give a surgery formula that expresses the potential after smoothing a double point. \u0000We study refined potentials of monotone immersed Lagrangian spheres in the complex projective plane and find monotone spheres that cannot be displaced from complex lines and conics by symplectomorphisms. We also derive general restrictions on sphere potentials using Legendrian lifts to the contact 5-sphere.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44733601","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}
{"title":"Index theory and deformations of open nonnegatively curved manifolds","authors":"I. Belegradek","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1669998181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1669998181","url":null,"abstract":"We use an index-theoretic technique of Hitchin to show that the space of complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on certain open spin manifolds has nontrivial homotopy groups in infinitely many degrees. A new ingredient of independent interest is homotopy density of the subspace of metrics with cylindrical ends.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47745625","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}
{"title":"Minimal planes in asymptotically flat three-manifolds","authors":"L. Mazet, H. Rosenberg","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1649953568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1649953568","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we improve a result by Chodosh and Ketover. We prove that, in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold $M$ that contains no closed minimal surfaces, fixing $qin M$ and a $2$-plane $V$ in $T_qM$ there is a properly embedded minimal plane $Sigma$ in $M$ such that $qinSigma$ and $T_qSigma=V$. We also prove that fixing three points in $M$ there is a properly embedded minimal plane passing through these three points.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48580191","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}
{"title":"Morita equivalence and the generalized Kähler potential","authors":"Francis Bischoff, M. Gualtieri, M. Zabzine","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1659987891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1659987891","url":null,"abstract":"We solve the problem of determining the fundamental degrees of freedom underlying a generalized Kahler structure of symplectic type. For a usual Kahler structure, it is well-known that the geometry ...","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48637629","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}
{"title":"Geodesic nets with three boundary vertices","authors":"Fabian Parsch","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1631124286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1631124286","url":null,"abstract":"We prove that a geodesic net with three boundary (= unbalanced) vertices on a non-positively curved plane has at most one balanced vertex. We do not assume any a priori bound for the degrees of unbalanced vertices. The result seems to be new even in the Euclidean case. We demonstrate by examples that the result is not true for metrics of positive curvature on the plane, and that there are no immediate generalizations of this result for geodesic nets with four unbalanced vertices.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2018-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48277955","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}