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Extends flat submanifold properties from hyperbolic plane to symmetric spaces.

A spacetime can be embedded in an enveloping space with all its extensions.

Flat subsets in Euclidean buildings are contained within apartments.

Local equivalence found between maximally symmetric rolling and flat Cartan distributions.

Let $M$ be a Riemannian globally symmetric space of compact type, $M'$ its set of maximal flat totally geodesic tori, and $\mathrm{ad}(M)$ its adjoint space. We show that the kernel of the maximal flat Radon transform $τ:L^2(M) \rightarrow L^2(M')$ is precisely the orthogonal complement of the image of the pullback map…

New proof confirms flat equilateral torus is λ1-maximal.

Generalizes Dolbeault cohomology computation to Levi-flat CR structures on compact Lie groups.

Local equivalence shown between specific distributions and flat Cartan distribution.

It is natural to expect and simple to prove that every conformally flat space possess the maximal number of conformal Killing vector fields (CKVs). On the other hand, it is interesting to ask whether the converse is true. Is conformal flatness a necessary condition for the existence of the maximal number of CKVs? In th…

It has been proved that there are no real hypersurfaces satisfying RA = 0 in non-flat complex space forms. In this paper we prove that the same is true in the case of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension, that is there are no CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension satisfying RA = 0 in non-flat complex space forms.

Projections from flats to maximal flats defined and studied.

In this paper, we study the CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension with flat normal connection of a complex projective space. We first investigate the position of the umbilical normal vector in the normal bundle, especially for the submanifolds of dimension 3. Then as the application, we prove the non-existence of a c…

We prove that every non-positively curved locally symmetric manifold M of finite volume contains a compact set K such that no periodic maximal flat can be homotoped out of K.

Let X be a symmetric space of non-compact type or a locally finite, strongly transitive Euclidean building, and let B denote the geodesic boundary of X. We reduce the study of visual limits of maximal flats in X to the study of limits of apartments in the spherical building B: this defines a natural, geometric compacti…

In this paper, we study the Ricci flat manifolds with maximal volume growth using Perelman's reduced volume of Ricci flow. We show that if $(M^n,g)$ is an noncompact complete Ricci flat manifold with maximal volume growth satisfying $|Rm|(x)\to 0$ as $d(x)=d_g(x,p)\to \infty$, then $M^n$ has the quadratic curvature dec…

Flat open manifolds with full first Betti number have zero curvature.

The notion of maximal extension of a globally hyperbolic space-time arises from the notion of maximal solutions of the Cauchy problem associated to the Einstein's equations of general relativity. In 1969 Choquet-Bruhat and Geroch proved that if the Cauchy problem has a local solution, this solution has a unique maximal…

Anosov subgroup equidistributes geodesics and holonomies on homogeneous spaces.

Sharp bounds for eigenfunctions on product spaces restricted to submanifolds.

Maximal spacetimes have unique past/future sets.

Study maximal hypersurfaces in open spacetimes using a maximum principle.

We study homologically maximizing timelike geodesics in conformally flat tori. A causal geodesic $γ$ in such a torus is said to be homologically maximizing if one (hence every) lift of $γ$ to the universal cover is arclength maximizing. First we prove a compactness result for homologically maximizing timelike geodesics…

The study extends Tutte's conflict graph concept to nonplanar graphs.

In this paper, under natural geometric and physical assumptions we provide new uniqueness and non-existence results for complete maximal hypersurfaces in spatially open Robertson-Walker spacetimes whose fiber is flat. Moreover, our results are applied to relevant spacetimes as the steady state spacetime, Einstein-de Si…

Characterizes polygonal surfaces in pseudo-hyperbolic spaces.

Flat metrics on hyperbolic surfaces embed as polyhedral surfaces in (2+1)-spacetimes.

A maximal surface $\sb$ with isolated singularities in a complete flat Lorentzian 3-manifold $\N$ is said to be entire if it lifts to a (periodic) entire multigraph $\tilde{\sb}$ in $ł^3.$ In addition, $\sb$ is called of finite type if it has finite topology, finitely many singular points and $\tilde{\sb}$ is finitely …

The paper studies volumes of conformally flat manifolds in light-cone geometry.

We show that the solutions to the second-order differential equation associated to the generalised Chazy equation with parameters $k=2$ and $k=3$ naturally show up in the conformal rescaling that takes a representative metric in Nurowski's conformal class associated to a maximally symmetric $(2,3,5)$-distribution (desc…

We classify flat strict nearly Kähler manifolds with (necessarily) indefinite metric. Any such manifold is locally the product of a flat pseudo-Kähler factor of maximal dimension and a strict flat nearly Kähler manifold of split signature $(2m,2m)$ with $m\ge 3$. Moreover, the geometry of the second factor is encoded i…

Noncompact RCD spaces with maximal first Betti number are rigid.

Asymptotically flat manifolds with Euclidean volume growth are known to be ALE. In this paper, we consider a class of asymptotically flat manifolds with slower volume growth and prove that their asymptotic geometry is that of a fibration over an ALE manifold. In particular, we show that gravitational instantons with cu…

We study relatively hyperbolic Coxeter groups of type $HM$ with maximal Euclidean Coxeter subgroups of codimension 1. Our main result in this paper is that the dimension of these groups is bounded above.

We classify (up to local isometry) the maximally supersymmetric solutions of the eleven- and ten-dimensional supergravity theories. We find that the AdS solutions, the Hpp-waves and the flat space solutions exhaust them.

We study the large scale geometry of the mapping class group, MCG. Our main result is that for any asymptotic cone of MCG, the maximal dimension of locally compact subsets coincides with the maximal rank of free abelian subgroups of MCG. An application is an affirmative solution to Brock-Farb's Rank Conjecture which as…

The paper proves rigidity results for Einstein manifolds with specific geometric constraints.

Study constructs solutions for evolving hypersurfaces using inverse spacetime mean curvature.

We give an alternative proof of a result of Cantat and Dupont, showing that any automorphism of a K3 surface with measure of maximal entropy in the Lebesgue class must be a Kummer example. Our method exploits the existence of Ricci-flat metrics on K3s and also covers the non-projective case.

We show that timelike maximal cylinders in $\RR^{1 + 2}$ always develop singularities in finite time and that, infinitesimally at a generic singularity, their time slices are evolved by a rigid motion or a self-similar motion. We also prove a mild generalization in non-flat backgrounds.

Minkowski space is the local model of 3 dimensionnal flat spacetimes. Recent progress in the description of globally hyperbolic flat spacetimes showed strong link between Lorentzian geometry and Teichm{ü}ller space. We notice that Lorentzian generalisations of conical singularities are useful for the endeavours of desc…

The paper constructs a new Ricci-flat metric on almost abelian Lie groups.

Formula found for probability of random triangles on flat tori being homotopically trivial.

Maximizes capacity of extensions with fixed boundary data.

We use maximal periodic flats to show that on a finite volume irreducible locally symmetric manifold of dimension $\geq 3$, no metric $g$ has more symmetry than the locally symmetric metric. We also show that if $g$ is a finite volume metric that is not locally symmetric, then its lift to the universal cover has discre…

In this article, we introduce a new method (based on Perelman's lambda-functional) to study the stability of compact Ricci-flat metrics. Under the assumption that all infinitesimal Ricci-flat deformations are integrable we prove: (A) a Ricci-flat metric is a local maximizer of lambda in a C^2,alpha-sense iff its Lichne…

Research explores the space-like embeddings in pseudo-hyperbolic space, finding geometric frames and actions.

We study 3-dimensional non-Riemannian Lorentz geometries, i.e. compact locally homogeneous Lorentz 3-manifolds with non-compact (local) isotropy group. One result is that, up to a finite cover, all such manifolds admit Lorentz metrics of (non-positive) constant sectionnal curvature. If the geometry is maximal, then the…

We present a maximally supersymmetric IIB string background. The geometry is that of a conformally flat lorentzian symmetric space G/K with solvable G, with a homogeneous five-form flux. We give the explicit supergravity solution, compute the isometries, the 32 Killing spinors, and the symmetry superalgebra, and then d…