Study geodesics of meromorphic connections on Riemann surfaces.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behaviors of geodesics in meromorphic connections.
method Use branched affine structure induced by Fuchsian meromorphic connections.
result Examples of geodesics with infinitely many self-intersections and peculiar omega-limit sets.
Classifies meromorphic affine connections on complex surfaces.
problem Investigating uniformization in higher dimensions with singularities.
method Extending work on holomorphic connections, classifying meromorphic connections on compact surfaces.
result Classification of meromorphic affine connections on compact complex surfaces.
Classifies connected components of meromorphic differentials with residue conditions.
problem Understanding the structure of meromorphic differentials with residue constraints.
method Analyzes the multi-scale compactification and residue conditions.
result Classified connected components of generalized strata of meromorphic differentials.
The paper studies complex affine structures near irregular singularities.
problem Understanding complex affine structures near irregular singularities.
method Introducing local invariants and a Delaunay decomposition.
result Upper bounds on the complexity of the Delaunay decomposition.
The paper explores meromorphic connections over Frobenius manifolds.
problem Existence and uniqueness of meromorphic connections.
method Holomorphic bundles with meromorphic connections, conjecture proof.
result Proof of conjecture in 2D cases.
This paper explores how local behavior of meromorphic connections on the projective line determines the global connection.
problem Determining the global meromorphic connection based on specified local behavior at singular points.
method Expository discussion of various problems related to meromorphic connections with specified local behavior, including Deligne-Simpson and rigidity problems.
result The existence and nonemptiness of moduli spaces of meromorphic connections with specified local behavior.
This paper classifies components of meromorphic differential strata.
problem Understanding the boundary of multi-scale compactification of meromorphic differentials.
method Classifying connected components of residueless meromorphic differentials.
result Classification of connected components of strata of residueless meromorphic differentials.
The paper studies deformations and confluences of singularities in meromorphic connections and quadratic differentials.
problem Understanding singularities and deformations in meromorphic connections and quadratic differentials.
method Local formal invariants and jets of meromorphic quadratic differentials, universal isomonodromic deformation, unfolded Stokes phenomenon, horizontal and vertical foliations.
result Establishes a correspondence between local formal invariants and jets of meromorphic quadratic differentials, describing parameter spaces and moduli spaces.
Normal forms found for meromorphic connections over a specific F-manifold.
problem Characterizing meromorphic connections over a specific F-manifold.
method Finding normal forms for Euler fields and meromorphic connections.
result Characterized Euler fields induced by (TE)-structures. For each connected complex reductive group G, we find a family of new examples of complex quasi-Hamiltonian G-spaces with G-valued moment maps. These spaces arise naturally as moduli spaces of (suitably framed) meromorphic connections on principal G-bundles over a disc, and they generalise the conjugacy class example o…
The paper establishes a correspondence between Higgs torsors and connections on curves.
problem Establishing a correspondence between Higgs torsors and connections on curves.
method Introduced a stability condition on filtered Stokes local systems and used it to prove a one-to-one correspondence.
result One-to-one correspondence between stable meromorphic parahoric Higgs torsors and stable meromorphic parahoric connections.
We describe the moduli spaces of meromorphic connections on trivial holomorphic vector bundles over the Riemann sphere with at most one (unramified) irregular singularity and arbitrary number of simple poles as Nakajima's quiver varieties. This result enables us to solve partially the additive irregular Deligne-Simpson…
We consider those simply connected isothermic surfaces for which their Hopf differential factorizes into a real function and a meromorphic quadratic differential that has a zero or pole at some point, but is nowhere zero and holomorphic otherwise. Upon restriction to a simply connected patch that does not contain the z…
Study the geometry of twistor spaces with rotating circle action.
problem Holomorphic symplectic geometry of twistor spaces.
method Interpreting Hitchin's meromorphic connection and studying critical points of moment maps.
result Residue of Hitchin's meromorphic connection serves as a moment map for the circle action.
Identifies holonomy of affine surfaces via meromorphic connections.
problem Holonomy of complex affine surfaces.
method Moduli space of complex affine surfaces and meromorphic connections.
result Holonomy map is a submersion for non-finite-area translation surfaces.
Study of meromorphic connections and their spectral duals in gl3(C).
problem Exploring ℏ-deformed meromorphic connections and their spectral duals. method Using apparent singularities and their dual partners as Darboux coordinates, the Hamiltonian evolutions and reductions are derived.
result Spectral duality extends to Hamiltonian evolutions, tau-functions, and Hermitian matrix models on both sides.
Employing Morse theory for the global control of monodromy and the method of analytic discs for local extension, we establish a version of the global Hartogs extension theorem in a singular setting: for every domain D of an (n-1)-complete normal complex space X of pure dimension n >= 2 and for every compact set K in D …
In this paper, we study the translation surfaces corresponding to meromorphic differentials on compact Riemann surfaces. We compute the number of connected components of the corresponding strata of the moduli space. We show that in genus greater than or equal to two, one has up to three components with a similar descri…
The study characterizes a complex curve of residueless meromorphic differentials on elliptic curves.
problem Characterizing the locus of residueless meromorphic differentials on elliptic curves.
method Multi-scale compactification of strata, formulas for genus and degree of maps, distinguishing components.
result Complete classification of connected components of residueless loci in exceptional strata.
We investigate the Lawson genus 2 surface by methods from integrable system theory. We prove that the associated family of flat connections comes from a family of flat connections on a 4−punctured sphere. We describe the symmetries of the holonomy and show that it is already determined by the holonomy around one of…
For any connected component H0 of the space of real meromorphic functions we build a compactification N(H0) of the space H0. Then we express the Euler characteristics of the spaces H0 and N(H0) in terms of topological invariants of functions from H0.
Study meromorphic open-string vertex algebras and modules over Riemannian manifolds.
problem Characterize meromorphic open-string vertex algebras and their modules over Riemannian manifolds.
method Explicitly determine bases for meromorphic open-string vertex algebras and their modules, using parallel tensors and eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator.
result Every irreducible module of a specific type is completely reducible if every composition factor is generated by eigenfunctions of eigenvalue p(p−1)K for some p∈Z+. The paper counts ends of differential forms on surfaces.
problem Counting ends of meromorphic 1-forms on Riemann surfaces.
method Degeneration techniques and moduli space construction.
result Enumeration of ends for meromorphic 1-forms.
Geometric approach to meromorphic differentials' periods and their holonomy representations.
problem Characterizing representations of meromorphic differentials' periods.
method Constructing translation structures with prescribed holonomy.
result Generalization of Haupt's classical result to meromorphic differentials.
Let M be a Riemannian manifold. For p∈M, the tensor algebra of the negative part of the (complex) affinization of the tangent space of M at p has a natural structure of a meromorphic open-string vertex algebra. These meromorphic open-string vertex algebras form a vector bundle over M with a connection. We …
Study symplectic structures in moduli spaces of meromorphic connections.
problem Understanding symplectic structures in moduli spaces of meromorphic connections.
method Explicit and infinite dimensional description of symplectic structures.
result Intrinsic symplectic description of isomonodromic deformation equations.
Modular curves X1(N) parametrize elliptic curves with a point of order N. They can be identified with connected components of projectivized strata PH(a,−a) of meromorphic differentials. As strata of meromorphic differentials, they have a canonical walls-and-chambers structure defined by the …
Paper defines quasi-Strebel structures for meromorphic k-differentials and proves their existence.
problem Existence of quasi-Strebel structures for meromorphic k-differentials.
method Introduced quasi-Strebel structures and proved their existence for meromorphic k-differentials.
result Every differential of even order k > 2 satisfying certain conditions admits a quasi-Strebel structure.
The base space of a semi-universal unfolding of a hypersurface singularity carries a rich geometric structure, which was axiomatized as a CDV-structure by C. Hertling. For any CDV-structure on a Frobenius manifold M, the pull-back of the (1,0)-tangent bundle of M to the product of M by the complex line carries two natu…
Summary of main work 1999-2012
Constructs metrics on Riemann surfaces with singularities.
problem Creating constant curvature metrics on surfaces with specific singularities.
method Using meromorphic 1-forms and ODEs to construct conformal metrics.
result Classified constant curvature metrics on S2 with two conical singularities. Connected boundaries of strata of differentials are always connected in various compactifications.
problem Understanding the connectedness of boundaries of differentials' strata in various compactifications.
method Explicit degeneration techniques, algebraic compactifications, and properties of Teichmüller curves.
result The boundaries of differentials' strata are always connected in any complete algebraic compactification.
New surfaces found in 5D space.
problem Constructing smooth embedded special Legendrian surfaces in \(\mathbb S^5\).
method Combining implicit function theorem, loop algebra-valued meromorphic connections, and character variety analysis.
result First genus > 1 embedded special Legendrian surfaces in \(\mathbb S^5\).
We introduce a weak concept of Morita equivalence, in the birational context, for Poisson modules on complex normal Poisson projective varieties. We show that Poisson modules, on projective varieties with mild singularities, are either rationally Morita equivalent to a flat partial holomorphic sheaf, or a sheaf with a …
We study framed translation surfaces corresponding to meromorphic differentials on compact Riemann surfaces, for which a horizontal separatrix is marked for each pole or zero. Such geometric structures naturally appear when studying flat geometry surfaces "near" the Deligne-Mumford boundary.We compute the number of con…
Study of symplectic groupoids from tt*-Toda equations.
problem Geometry of meromorphic connections with irregular singularities.
method Holomorphic symplectic groupoid structure over Steinberg cross section.
result Proves the space of tt*-Toda connections is a symplectic Lie groupoid.
In translation surfaces of finite area (corresponding to holomorphic differentials), directions of saddle connections are dense in the unit circle. On the contrary, saddle connections are fewer in translation surfaces with poles (corresponding to meromorphic differentials). The Cantor-Bendixson rank of their set of dir…
The paper connects isomonodromic and isospectral deformations for sl2(C) connections.
problem Connecting isomonodromic and isospectral deformations for sl2(C) connections. method Explicitly constructing Lax pairs and Darboux coordinates to bridge isomonodromic and isospectral deformations.
result Explicit change of Darboux coordinates to match spectral invariants, solving an open issue.
Study of asymptotics of meromorphic 3D-index as q approaches 1.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of a meromorphic function related to 3D-index.
method Developed a conjectural asymptotic approximation using stationary phase analysis of a circle-valued angle structure integral.
result Found connections to angle structures and volume optimization.
Moduli spaces of quadratic differentials with prescribed singularities are not necessarily connected. We describe here all cases when they have a special hyperelliptic connected component. We announce the general classification theorem: up to the four exceptional cases in low genera the strata of meromorphic quadratic …
On a complex curve, we establish a correspondence between integrable connections with irregular singularities, and Higgs bundles such that the Higgs field is meromorphic with poles of any order. The moduli spaces of these objects are obtained by fixing at each singularity the polar part of the connection. We prove that…
Study describes how to realize periods of meromorphic differentials with specific properties.
problem Realizing meromorphic differentials with given zeros, poles, and topological constraints.
method Complete description of period representations for specified conditions on Riemann surfaces.
result A comprehensive method for realizing meromorphic differentials with prescribed characteristics.
We consider compact minimal surfaces f:M→S3 of genus 2 which are homotopic to an embedding. We assume that the associated holomorphic bundle is stable. We prove that these surfaces can be constructed from a globally defined family of meromorphic connections by the DPW method. The poles of the meromorphic co…
Constructs a function to prove meromorphic differential strata don't have complete subvarieties.
problem Proving meromorphic differential strata don't contain complete subvarieties.
method Explicit construction of a strictly plurisubharmonic function.
result Proves meromorphic differential strata do not contain positive-dimensional complete subvarieties.
Study angle structures on 3-manifolds, linking to representation theory.
problem Understanding spaces of angle structures on 3-manifolds.
method Cohomology groups and geometric bijections.
result Establishes a bijection between angle structures and obstruction classes.
The Hurwitz space is the moduli space of pairs (X,f) where X is a compact Riemann surface and f is a meromorphic function on X. We study the Laplace operator Δ∣df∣2 of the flat singular Riemannian manifold (X,∣df∣2). We define a regularized determinant for Δ∣df∣2 and study it as a functional on t…
We provide a novel proof that the set of directions that admit a saddle connection on a meromorphic quadratic differential with at least one pole of order at least two is closed, which generalizes a result of Bridgeland and Smith, and Gaiotto, Moore, and Neitzke. Secondly, we show that this set has finite Cantor-Bendix…
Study rationality of meromorphic functions between real algebraic sets in the plane.
problem Understanding rationality of meromorphic functions mapping real algebraic sets to complex algebraic sets.
method Using Schwarz reflection functions and theory of meromorphic functions.
result For certain real algebraic sets, meromorphic functions are rational.