Geometriae DedicataPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1007/s10711-024-00954-8
Thomas A Ivey, Spiro Karigiannis
{"title":"<ArticleTitle xmlns:ns0=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\">Cohomogeneity one solitons for the isometric flow of <ns0:math><ns0:msub><ns0:mtext>G</ns0:mtext> <ns0:mn>2</ns0:mn></ns0:msub> </ns0:math> -structures.","authors":"Thomas A Ivey, Spiro Karigiannis","doi":"10.1007/s10711-024-00954-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-024-00954-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We consider the existence of cohomogeneity one solitons for the isometric flow of <math><msub><mtext>G</mtext> <mn>2</mn></msub> </math> -structures on the following classes of torsion-free <math><msub><mtext>G</mtext> <mn>2</mn></msub> </math> -manifolds: the Euclidean <math> <msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow> <mn>7</mn></msup> </math> with its standard <math><msub><mtext>G</mtext> <mn>2</mn></msub> </math> -structure, metric cylinders over Calabi-Yau 3-folds, metric cones over nearly Kähler 6-manifolds, and the Bryant-Salamon <math><msub><mtext>G</mtext> <mn>2</mn></msub> </math> -manifolds. In all cases we establish existence of global solutions to the isometric soliton equations, and determine the asymptotic behaviour of the torsion. In particular, existence of shrinking isometric solitons on <math> <msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow> <mn>7</mn></msup> </math> is proved, giving support to the likely existence of type I singularities for the isometric flow. In each case, the study of the soliton equation reduces to a particular nonlinear ODE with a regular singular point, for which we provide a careful analysis. Finally, to simplify the derivation of the relevant equations in each case, we first establish several useful Riemannian geometric formulas for a general class of cohomogeneity one metrics on total spaces of vector bundles which should have much wider application, as such metrics arise often as explicit examples of special holonomy metrics.</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11442535/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367550","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}
Geometriae DedicataPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s10711-023-00862-3
Michael Dymond, Vojtěch Kaluža
{"title":"Divergence of separated nets with respect to displacement equivalence.","authors":"Michael Dymond, Vojtěch Kaluža","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00862-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00862-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We introduce a hierarchy of equivalence relations on the set of separated nets of a given Euclidean space, indexed by concave increasing functions <math><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>:</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>∞</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>→</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>∞</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math>. Two separated nets are called <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>-<i>displacement equivalent</i> if, roughly speaking, there is a bijection between them which, for large radii <i>R</i>, displaces points of norm at most <i>R</i> by something of order at most <math><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math>. We show that the spectrum of <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>-displacement equivalence spans from the established notion of <i>bounded displacement equivalence</i>, which corresponds to bounded <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>, to the indiscrete equivalence relation, corresponding to <math><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>∈</mo><mi>Ω</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math>, in which all separated nets are equivalent. In between the two ends of this spectrum, the notions of <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>-displacement equivalence are shown to be pairwise distinct with respect to the asymptotic classes of <math><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math> for <math><mrow><mi>R</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>∞</mi></mrow></math>. We further undertake a comparison of our notion of <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>-displacement equivalence with previously studied relations on separated nets. Particular attention is given to the interaction of the notions of <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math>-displacement equivalence with that of <i>bilipschitz equivalence</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10656347/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464551","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":"Knot groups, quandle extensions and orderability","authors":"Idrissa Ba, Mohamed Elhamdadi","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00876-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00876-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper gives a new way of characterizing L-space 3-manifolds by using orderability of quandles. Hence, this answers a question of Clay et al. (Question 1.1 of Can Math Bull 59(3):472–482, 2016). We also investigate both the orderability and circular orderability of dynamical extensions of orderable quandles. We give conditions under which the conjugation quandle on a group, as an extension of the conjugation of a bi-orderable group by the conjugation of a right orderable group, is right orderable. We also study the right circular orderability of link quandles. We prove that the <i>n</i>-quandle <span>(Q_n(L))</span> of the link quandle of a link <i>L</i> in the 3-sphere is not right circularly orderable and hence it is not right orderable. But on the other hand, we show that there are infinitely many links for which the <i>p</i>-enveloping group of the link quandle is right circularly orderable for any prime integer <i>p</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139061686","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}
Benjamin Brück, Francesco Fournier-Facio, Clara Löh
{"title":"Median quasimorphisms on $${{,mathrm{{CAT}},}}(0)$$ cube complexes and their cup products","authors":"Benjamin Brück, Francesco Fournier-Facio, Clara Löh","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00870-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00870-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cup products provide a natural approach to access higher bounded cohomology groups. We extend vanishing results on cup products of Brooks quasimorphisms of free groups to cup products of median quasimorphisms, i.e., Brooks-type quasimorphisms of group actions on <span>({{,mathrm{{CAT}},}}(0))</span> cube complexes. In particular, we obtain such vanishing results for groups acting on trees and for right-angled Artin groups. Moreover, we outline potential applications of vanishing results for cup products in bounded cohomology.</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139029383","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":"Relations with a fixed interval exchange transformation","authors":"Magali Jay","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00868-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00868-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>We study the group of all interval exchange transformations (IETs). Katok asked whether it contains a free subgroup. We show that for every IET <em>S</em>, there exists a dense open set <span> <span>(Omega (S))</span> </span> of admissible IETs such that the group generated by <em>S</em> and any <span> <span>(Tin Omega (S))</span> </span> is not free of rank 2. This extends a result by Dahmani et al. (Groups Geom Dyn 7(4):883–910, 2013): the group generated by a generic pair of elements of IET([0;1)) is not free (assuming a suitable condition on the underlying permutation).</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138687579","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":"Correction: An improved bound on the optimal paper Moebius band","authors":"Richard Evan Schwartz","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00869-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00869-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138578926","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":"Moduli spaces of polygons and deformations of polyhedra with boundary","authors":"Sasha Anan’in, Dmitrii Korshunov","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00834-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00834-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We prove a conjecture of Ian Agol: all isometric realizations of a polyhedral surface with boundary sweep out an isotropic subset in the Kapovich-Millson moduli space of polygons isomorphic to the boundary. For a generic polyhedral disk we show that boundaries of its isometric realizations make up a Lagrangian subset. As an application of this result, we conclude that a generic equilateral polygon cannot be domed (in the sense of a problem of Kenyon, Glazyrin and Pak).</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138578924","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":"Vanishing theorem on parabolic Kähler manifolds","authors":"Teng Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00872-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00872-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we consider the semipositive (resp. nef) line bundle on compact Kähler parabolic (resp. hyperbolic) manifolds. We prove some vanishing theorems for the <span>(L^{2})</span>-harmonic (<i>n</i>, <i>q</i>)-form of the holomorphic line bundles over complete Kähler manifolds.</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138579028","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":"Low dilatation pseudo-Anosovs on punctured surfaces and volume.","authors":"Shixuan Li","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00860-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00860-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism <i>f</i> on a closed surface of genus <span>(gge 2)</span>, for which the entropy is on the order <span>(frac{1}{g})</span> (the lowest possible order), Farb-Leininger-Margalit showed that the volume of the mapping torus is bounded, independent of <i>g</i>. We show that the analogous result fails for a surface of fixed genus <i>g</i> with <i>n</i> punctures, by constructing pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism with entropy of the minimal order <span>(frac{log n}{n})</span>, and volume tending to infinity.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560724","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":"Harmonic maps between 2-dimensional simplicial complexes: conformal and singular metrics","authors":"Brian Freidin, Victòria Gras Andreu","doi":"10.1007/s10711-023-00871-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-023-00871-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study metrics on two-dimensional simplicial complexes that are conformal either to flat Euclidean metrics or to the ideal hyperbolic metrics described by Charitos and Papadopoulos. Extending the results of our previous paper, we prove existence, uniqueness, and regularity results for harmonic maps between two such metrics on a complex.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":55103,"journal":{"name":"Geometriae Dedicata","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560422","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}