arXiv research

Explicitly constructed 5-manifolds tessellated by prisms.

Heegaard diagrams for 5-manifolds help in understanding their structure.

Smoothly embed 3-manifolds in 5-manifolds, simplifying topological to smooth.

New 5D hyperbolic shapes that wrap around a circle found.

New 5-manifolds allow Sasaki-Einstein structures.

A 5-manifold fibers over a circle with nonpositive curvature.

Complete obstruction found for 2-spheres in 5-manifolds to be isotopic.

Paper confirms Hamilton-Tian conjecture for specific Sasakian manifolds.

The aim of this paper is to study compact 5--manifolds which admit fixed point free circle actions. The first result implies that the torsion in the second homology and the second Stiefel--Whitney class have to satisfy strong restrictions. We then show that for simply connected 5--manifolds these restrictions are neces…

New 5-manifold without 'spine' challenges deformation conjecture.

We consider hypersurfaces in Einstein-Sasaki 5-manifolds which are tangent to the characteristic vector field. We introduce evolution equations that can be used to reconstruct the 5-dimensional metric from such a hypersurface, analogous to the (nearly) hypo and half-flat evolution equations in higher dimensions. We use…

New 5-manifold found with zero Ricci curvature.

Resolves singular fibers of a 5-manifold with $S^1$ action.

Using recent work on high dimensional Lutz twists and families of Weinstein structures we show that any almost contact structure on a 5-manifold is homotopic to a contact structure.

We consider a fixed contact 3-manifold that admits infinitely many compact Stein fillings which are all homeomorphic but pairwise non-diffeomorphic. Each of these fillings gives rise to a closed contact 5-manifold described as a contact open book whose page is the filling at hand and whose monodromy is the identity sym…

According to Giroux, contact manifolds can be described as open books whose pages are Stein manifolds. For 5-dimensional contact manifolds the pages are Stein surfaces, which permit a description via Kirby diagrams. We introduce handle moves on such diagrams that do not change the corresponding contact manifold. As an …

In this paper, an explicit classification result for certain 5-manifolds with fundamental group Z/2 is obtained. These manifolds include total spaces of circle bundles over simply-connected 4-manifolds.

We classify $5$-manifolds with fundamental group $\mathbb Z$ and $π_{2}$ a finitely generated abelian group in terms of the cup product on the second cohomology of the universal covering. The classification result is applied to study simple knots $k \colon S^{3} \subset S^{5}$ and the question, which compact topologica…

The paper solves a 5-manifold foliation problem using a Sasaki-Ricci flow.

The paper characterizes Pfaffian embeddings from 2,3,5-manifolds to 7-dimensional isotropic spaces.

The abstract discusses metrics with positive biorthogonal curvature on 5-manifolds.

We make some elementary observations concerning subcritically Stein fillable contact structures on 5-manifolds. Specifically, we determine the diffeomorphism type of such contact manifolds in the case the fundamental group is finite cyclic, and we show that on the 5-sphere the standard contact structure is the unique s…

We give necessary and sufficient topological conditions for the existence of an irreducible ${\rm SO}(3)$-structure on a $5$-manifold. Using these conditions we provide some new examples of $5$-manifolds with an irreducible ${\rm SO}(3)$-structure.

We classify compact oriented $5$-manifolds with free fundamental group and $π_{2}$ a torsion free abelian group in terms of the second homotopy group considered as $π_1$-module, the cup product on the second cohomology of the universal covering, and the second Stiefel-Whitney class of the universal covering. We apply t…

In this paper, we classify all the orientable hyperbolic 5-manifolds that arise as a hyperbolic space form $H^5/Γ$ where $Γ$ is a torsion-free subgroup of minimal index of the congruence two subgroup $Γ^5_2$ of the group $Γ^5$ of positive units of the Lorentzian quadratic form $x_1^2+...+x_5^2-x_6^2$. We also show that…

A series of examples of toric Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds is constructed. These are submanifolds of toric 3-Sasaki 7-manifolds and such a Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifold corresponds uniquely to a toric 3-Sasaki 7-manifold. This produces examples of quasi-regular Sasaki-Einstein structures on every #k(S^2 xS^3), for k odd. T…

Analytic torsion defined for rank 2 distributions on 5-manifolds.

The aim of this paper is to study compact 5--manifolds which carry a positive Sasakian structure. Strong restrictions are derived for the integral homology groups. In some cases, all positive Sasakian structures are classified. A key step is to study log Del Pezzo surfaces whose boundary divisor contains positive genus…

We show that a connection with skew-symmetric torsion satisfying the Einstein metricity condition exists on an almost contact metric manifold exactly when it is D-homothetic to a cosymplectic manifold. In dimension five, we get that the existence of a connection with skew torsion satisfying the Einstein metricity condi…

Closed Riemannian 4 or 5-manifolds contain branched immersed closed minimal surfaces.

New invariant distinguishes Legendrian surfaces in 5-manifolds.

We show that a closed, simply-connected, non-negatively curved 5-manifold admitting an effective, isometric $T^2$ action is diffeomorphic to one of $S^5$, $S^3\times S^2$, $S^3\tilde{\times} S^2$ (the non-trivial $S^3$-bundle over $S^2$) or the Wu manifold $SU(3)/SO(3)$.

Quasi-holomorphic homotopies of immersions of 3-manifolds into 5-manifolds

Proves rigidity of stable free boundary hypersurfaces in 5-manifolds.

In this paper, we study smooth, semi-free actions on closed, smooth, simply connected manifolds, such that the orbit space is a smoothable manifold. We show that the only simply connected $5$-manifolds admitting a smooth, semi-free circle action with fixed-point components of codimension $4$ are connected sums of $S^3$…

We construct aspherical closed orientable 5-manifolds with perfect fundamental group. This completes part of our study (with D.H.Kochloukova and I.Lima) of $PD_n$-groups with pro-$p$ completion a pro-$p$ Poincaré duality group of dimension $\leq{n-2}$. We also consider the question of whether there are any examples wit…

We present a general procedure to construct 6-dimensional manifolds with SU(3)-structure from SU(2)-structure 5-manifolds. We thereby obtain half-flat cylinders and sine-cones over 5-manifolds with Sasaki-Einstein SU(2)-structure. They are nearly Kahler in the special case of sine-cones over Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds…

We consider the question whether an orientable 5-manifold can be equipped with a rank two distribution of Cartan type and what 2-plane bundles can be realized. We obtain a complete answer for open manifolds. In the closed case, we settle the topological part of this problem and present partial results concerning its ge…

Invariant description of SU(2)-structures on 5-manifolds developed.

First example of a 5D manifold with K-contact but no Sasakian structure.

We give a correspondence between toric 3-Sasaki 7-manifolds S and certain toric Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds M. These 5-manifolds are all diffeomorphic to k#(S^2\times S^3), where k=2b_2(S)+1, and are given by a pencil of Sasaki embeddings of M in S and are given concretely by the zero set of a component of the 3-Sasaki…

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: On the one side we would like to close a gap on the classification of vector bundles over $5$-manifolds. Therefore it will be necessary to study quaternionic line bundles over $5$-manifolds which are in $1-1$ correspondence to elements in the first cohomotopy group $π^4(M)=[M,S^4]…

We consider contact structures on simply-connected 5-manifolds which arise as circle bundles over simply-connected symplectic 4-manifolds and show that invariants from contact homology are related to the divisibility of the canonical class of the symplectic structure. As an application we find new examples of inequival…

Embeddings of surfaces in 5-manifolds are classified by an invariant.

Study on negative Sasakian structures on specific 5-manifolds.

The paper proves finite Urysohn 1-width for 4 and 5 manifolds with positive biRicci curvature.

This paper constructs symplectic surfaces in 4-manifolds with transversal intersections.

We study 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that admit an almost contact metric structure. We classify these structures by their intrinsic torsion and review the literature in terms of this scheme. Moreover, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of metric connections with vectorial, totally…