{"title":"Optimal transport approach to Michael–Simon–Sobolev inequalities in manifolds with intermediate Ricci curvature lower bounds","authors":"Kai-Hsiang Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09934-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09934-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We generalize McCann’s theorem of optimal transport to a submanifold setting and use it to prove Michael–Simon–Sobolev inequalities for submanifolds in manifolds with lower bounds on intermediate Ricci curvatures. The results include a variant of the sharp Michael–Simon–Sobolev inequality in Brendle’s (arXiv:2009.13717) when the intermediate Ricci curvatures are nonnegative.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138578073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From complex contact structures to real almost contact 3-structures","authors":"Eder M. Correa","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09935-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09935-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove that every complex contact structure gives rise to a distinguished type of almost contact metric 3-structure. As an application, we provide several new examples of manifolds which admit taut contact circles, taut and round almost cosymplectic 2-spheres, and almost hypercontact (metric) structures. These examples generalize the well-known examples of contact circles defined by the Liouville-Cartan forms on the unit cotangent bundle of Riemann surfaces. Further, we provide sufficient conditions for a compact complex contact manifold to be the twistor space of a positive quaternionic Kähler manifold.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138578040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos A. Alvarado, Tristan Ozuch, Daniel A. Santiago
{"title":"Families of degenerating Poincaré–Einstein metrics on (mathbb {R}^4)","authors":"Carlos A. Alvarado, Tristan Ozuch, Daniel A. Santiago","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09923-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09923-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We provide the first example of continuous families of Poincaré–Einstein metrics developing cusps on the trivial topology <span>(mathbb {R}^4)</span>. We also exhibit families of metrics with unexpected degenerations in their conformal infinity only. These are obtained from the Riemannian version of an ansatz of Debever and Plebański–Demiański. We additionally indicate how to construct similar examples on more complicated topologies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-023-09923-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commutativity of quantization with conic reduction for torus actions on compact CR manifolds","authors":"Andrea Galasso","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09931-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09931-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We define conic reductions <span>(X^{textrm{red}}_{nu })</span> for torus actions on the boundary <i>X</i> of a strictly pseudo-convex domain and for a given weight <span>(nu )</span> labeling a unitary irreducible representation. There is a natural residual circle action on <span>(X^{textrm{red}}_{nu })</span>. We have two natural decompositions of the corresponding Hardy spaces <i>H</i>(<i>X</i>) and <span>(H(X^{textrm{red}}_{nu }))</span>. The first one is given by the ladder of isotypes <span>(H(X)_{knu })</span>, <span>(kin {mathbb {Z}})</span>; the second one is given by the <i>k</i>-th Fourier components <span>(H(X^{textrm{red}}_{nu })_k)</span> induced by the residual circle action. The aim of this paper is to prove that they are isomorphic for <i>k</i> sufficiently large. The result is given for spaces of (0, <i>q</i>)-forms with <span>(L^2)</span>-coefficient when <i>X</i> is a CR manifold with non-degenerate Levi form.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-023-09931-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138454594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sasaki–Einstein 7-manifolds and Orlik’s conjecture","authors":"Jaime Cuadros Valle, Joe Lope Vicente","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09930-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09930-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the homology groups of certain 2-connected 7-manifolds admitting quasi-regular Sasaki–Einstein metrics, among them, we found 52 new examples of Sasaki–Einstein rational homology 7-spheres, extending the list given by Boyer et al. (Ann Inst Fourier 52(5):1569–1584, 2002). As a consequence, we exhibit new families of positive Sasakian homotopy 9-spheres given as cyclic branched covers, determine their diffeomorphism types and find out which elements do not admit extremal Sasaki metrics. We also improve previous results given by Boyer (Note Mat 28:63–105, 2008) showing new examples of Sasaki–Einstein 2-connected 7-manifolds homeomorphic to connected sums of <span>(S^3times S^4)</span>. Actually, we show that manifolds of the form <span>(#kleft( S^{3} times S^{4}right) )</span> admit Sasaki–Einstein metrics for 22 different values of <i>k</i>. All these links arise as Thom–Sebastiani sums of chain type singularities and cycle type singularities where Orlik’s conjecture holds due to a recent result by Hertling and Mase (J Algebra Number Theory 16(4):955–1024, 2022).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134796801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Berglund–Hübsch transpose rule and Sasakian geometry","authors":"Ralph R. Gomez","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09932-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09932-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We apply the Berglund–Hübsch transpose rule from BHK mirror symmetry to show that to an <span>(n-1)</span>-dimensional Calabi–Yau orbifold in weighted projective space defined by an invertible polynomial, we can associate four (possibly) distinct Sasaki manifolds of dimension <span>(2n+1)</span> which are <span>(n-1)</span>-connected and admit a metric of positive Ricci curvature. We apply this theorem to show that for a given K3 orbifold, there exist four seven-dimensional Sasakian manifolds of positive Ricci curvature, two of which are actually Sasaki–Einstein.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134796802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boundary properties for a Monge-Ampère equation of prescribed affine Gauss curvature","authors":"Yadong Wu","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09933-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09933-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Considering a Monge-Ampère equation with prescribed affine Gauss curvature, we first show the completeness of centroaffine metric on the convex domain and derive a gradient estimate of the convex solution and then give different orders of two eigenvalues of the Hessian with respect to the distance function. We also show that the curvature of level sets of the convex solution is uniformly bounded, and show that there exist a class of Euclidean-complete hyperbolic surfaces with prescribed affine Gauss curvature and with bounded affine principal curvatures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134796803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The metric structure of compact rank-one ECS manifolds","authors":"Andrzej Derdzinski, Ivo Terek","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09929-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09929-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with nonzero parallel Weyl tensor which are not locally symmetric are known as ECS manifolds. Every ECS manifold carries a distinguished null parallel distribution <span>(mathcal {D})</span>, the rank <span>(din {1,2})</span> of which is referred to as the rank of the manifold itself. Under a natural genericity assumption on the Weyl tensor, we fully describe the universal coverings of compact rank-one ECS manifolds. We then show that any generic compact rank-one ECS manifold must be <i>translational</i>, in the sense that the holonomy group of the natural flat connection induced on <span>(mathcal {D})</span> is either trivial or isomorphic to <span>({mathbb {Z}}_2)</span>. We also prove that all four-dimensional rank-one ECS manifolds are noncompact, this time without having to assume genericity, as it is always the case in dimension four.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-023-09929-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134797739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harmonic flow of geometric structures","authors":"Eric Loubeau, Henrique N. Sá Earp","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09928-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09928-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We give a twistorial interpretation of geometric structures on a Riemannian manifold, as sections of homogeneous fibre bundles, following an original insight by Wood (Differ Geom Appl 19:193–210, 2003). The natural Dirichlet energy induces an abstract harmonicity condition, which gives rise to a geometric gradient flow. We establish a number of analytic properties for this flow, such as uniqueness, smoothness, short-time existence, and some sufficient conditions for long-time existence. This description potentially subsumes a large class of geometric PDE problems from different contexts. As applications, we recover and unify a number of results in the literature: for the isometric flow of <span>(text {G}_2)</span>-structures, by Grigorian (Adv Math 308:142–207, 2017; Calculas Variat Partial Differ Equ 58:157, 2019), Bagaglini (J Geom Anal, 2009), and Dwivedi-Gianniotis-Karigiannis (J Geom Anal 31(2):1855-1933, 2021); and for harmonic almost complex structures, by He (Energy minimizing harmonic almost complex structures, 2019) and He-Li (Trans Am Math Soc 374(9):6179–6199, 2021). Our theory also establishes original properties regarding harmonic flows of parallelisms and almost contact structures.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-023-09928-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50491887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Justin Corvino, Elene Karangozishvili, Deniz Ozbay
{"title":"On the index of a free-boundary minimal surface in Riemannian Schwarzschild-AdS","authors":"Justin Corvino, Elene Karangozishvili, Deniz Ozbay","doi":"10.1007/s10455-023-09925-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-023-09925-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the index of a certain non-compact free-boundary minimal surface with boundary on the rotationally symmetric minimal sphere in the Schwarzschild-AdS geometry with <span>(m>0)</span>. As in the Schwarzschild case, we show that in dimensions <span>(nge 4)</span>, the surface is stable, whereas in dimension three, the stability depends on the value of the mass <span>(m>0)</span> and the cosmological constant <span>(Lambda <0)</span> via the parameter <span>(mu :=msqrt{-Lambda /3})</span>. We show that while for <span>(mu ge tfrac{5}{27})</span> the surface is stable, there exist positive numbers <span>(mu _0)</span> and <span>(mu _1)</span>, with <span>(mu _1<tfrac{5}{27})</span>, such that for <span>(0<mu <mu _0)</span>, the surface is unstable, while for all <span>(mu ge mu _1)</span>, the index is at most one.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-023-09925-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50450580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}