{"title":"Torsion-free connections on G-structures","authors":"Brice Flamencourt","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove that for a Lie group <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>SO</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>⊂</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>⊂</mo><msub><mrow><mi>GL</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, any <em>G</em>-structure on a smooth manifold can be endowed with a torsion free connection which is locally the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian metric in a given conformal class. In this process, we classify the admissible groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102075"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138095784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legendre magnetic flows for totally η-umbilic real hypersurfaces in a complex hyperbolic space","authors":"Qingsong Shi , Toshiaki Adachi","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>We study trajectories for Sasakian magnetic fields on horospheres, on geodesic spheres and on tubes around totally geodesic complex hypersurfaces in a complex </span>hyperbolic space. Considering the </span>subbundle<span><span> formed by unit tangent vectors orthogonal to the </span>characteristic vector field, flows associated with trajectories on this subbundle are smoothly conjugate to each other for each geodesic sphere, and are classified into two and three classes for a horosphere and for each tube, respectively.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138136107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vector bundles on real abelian varieties","authors":"Archana S. Morye","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper is about real holomorphic vector bundles<span> on real abelian varieties. The main result of the paper gives several conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a holomorphic connection on a real holomorphic vector bundle over a real abelian variety. Also proved is an analogue, for real abelian varieties, of a result of Simpson, which gives a criterion for a holomorphic vector bundle to arise by successive extensions of stable vector bundles with vanishing Chern classes.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102077"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138136106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holomorphic projective connections on surfaces","authors":"Oumar Wone","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study complex analytic projective connections on the plane. We characterize some of them in terms of their families of integral curves. We also give a beginning of classification of second order odes polynomial in the first and second derivatives, and with holomorphic coefficients.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102076"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134656276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The maximal curves and heat flow in general-affine geometry","authors":"Yun Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In Euclidean geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a </span><em>straight line</em>. Chern made a conjecture (cf. <span>[11]</span><span>) in 1977 that an affine maximal graph of a smooth and locally uniformly convex function on two-dimensional Euclidean space </span><span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> must be a <span><em>paraboloid</em></span><span>. In 2000, Trudinger and Wang completed the proof of this conjecture in affine geometry (cf. </span><span>[47]</span>). (<em>Caution: in these literatures, the term “affine geometry” refers to “equi-affine geometry”</em>.) A natural problem arises: Whether the <span><em>hyperbola</em></span> is a general-affine maximal curve in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span><span>? In this paper, by utilizing the evolution equations for curves, we obtain the second variational formula for general-affine extremal curves in </span><span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>, and show the general-affine maximal curves in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> are much more abundant and include the explicit curves <span><math><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msup><mspace></mspace><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>α</mi><mspace></mspace><mtext>is a constant and</mtext><mspace></mspace><mi>α</mi><mo>∉</mo><mo>{</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></mfrac><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>}</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>x</mi><mi>log</mi><mo></mo><mi>x</mi></math></span><span>. At the same time, we generalize the fundamental theory of curves in higher dimensions, equipped with </span><span><math><mtext>GA</mtext><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mtext>GL</mtext><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>⋉</mo><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></math></span><span><span>. Moreover, in general-affine plane geometry, an isoperimetric inequality<span> is investigated, and a complete classification of the solitons for general-affine heat flow is provided. We also study the local existence, uniqueness, and long-term behavior of this general-affine heat flow. A closed embedded curve will converge to an </span></span>ellipse when evolving according to the general-affine heat flow is proved.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102079"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134656172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The lifts of surfaces in neutral 4-manifolds into the 2-Grassmann bundles","authors":"Naoya Ando","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>A twistor lift of a space-like or time-like surface in a neutral hyperKähler 4-manifold with zero </span>mean curvature vector is given by a (para)holomorphic function, which yields (para)holomorphicity of the </span>Gauss maps of space-like or time-like surfaces in </span><span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span><span><span> with zero mean curvature vector. For a space-like or time-like surface in an oriented neutral 4-manifold with zero mean curvature vector such that both twistor lifts belong to the kernel of the curvature tensor, its (para)complex quartic differential is holomorphic. If both twistor lifts of a time-like surface with zero mean curvature vector have light-like or zero </span>covariant derivatives<span>, then either the shape operator with respect to a light-like normal vector field vanishes or all the shape operators of the surface are light-like or zero. Examples with the former (resp. latter) property are given by the conformal Gauss maps of time-like surfaces of Willmore type with zero paraholomorphic quartic differential (resp. time-like surfaces in 4-dimensional neutral space forms based on the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations).</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102073"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136696820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moment maps and isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres — Grassmannian cases","authors":"Shinobu Fujii","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We expect that every Cartan–Münzner polynomial of degree four can be described as a squared-norm of a moment map for a Hamiltonian action. Our expectation is known to be true for Hermitian cases, that is, those obtained from the isotropy representations of compact irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces of rank two. In this paper, we prove that our expectation is true for the Cartan–Münzner polynomials obtained from the isotropy representations of Grassmannian manifolds of rank two over <span><math><mi>R</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>C</mi></math></span> or <span><math><mi>H</mi></math></span>. The quaternion cases are the first non-Hermitian examples that our expectation is verified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102072"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91959400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rarita-Schwinger fields on nearly Kähler manifolds","authors":"Soma Ohno , Takuma Tomihisa","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study Rarita-Schwinger fields on 6-dimensional compact strict nearly Kähler manifolds. In order to investigate them, we clarify the relationship between some differential operators for the Hermitian connection and the Levi-Civita connection. As a result, we show that the space of Rarita-Schwinger fields coincides with the space of harmonic 3-forms. Applying the same technique to deformation theory, we also find that the space of infinitesimal deformations of Killing spinors coincides with the direct sum of a certain eigenspace of the Laplace operator and the space of Killing spinors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102068"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926224523000943/pdfft?md5=630b11c08c25cdf884db86fa0e59240a&pid=1-s2.0-S0926224523000943-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92045302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Periodic discrete Darboux transforms","authors":"Joseph Cho , Katrin Leschke , Yuta Ogata","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We express Darboux transformations of discrete polarised curves as parallel sections of discrete connections in the quaternionic formalism. This immediately leads to the linearisation of the monodromy of the transformation. We also consider the integrable reduction to the case of discrete bicycle correspondence. Applying our method to the case of discrete circles, we obtain closed-form discrete parametrisations of all (closed) Darboux transforms and (closed) bicycle correspondences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49749602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geometric integral formulas of cylinders within slabs","authors":"Ximo Gual-Arnau","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present new expressions for the integrals of mean curvature of domains in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> by means of sections with cylinders. Then, we combine these expressions with the corresponding version of the invariant density of affine subspaces in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></math></span>, in order to obtain pseudo-rotational formulae for all the integrals of mean curvature of ∂<em>K</em>. As particular cases, we present pseudo-rotational integral formulas for the volume, area, integral of mean curvature, and Euler-Poincaré characteristic of a connected domain of <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>, whose boundary is a surface, considering slabs in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> whose central plane passes through a fixed point, and cylinders contained in these slabs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49749802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}