arXiv research

A Steiner deltoid maintains constant area across all boundary points of an ellipse.

The paper studies singularities of pedal curves of hyperbolic frontals.

New Finsler metrics derived from pedal curves.

The pedal of a curve in the Euclidean plane is a classical subject which has a singular point at the inflection point of the original curve or the pedal point. The primitive of a curve is a curve given by the inverse construction for making the pedal. In this paper we consider the pedal of a quadratic curve. On of the …

Pedal curves derived from ellipses are invariant in area.

For the n-dimensional spherical pedal curve $ped_{γ,P}$ with respect to an n-dimensional spherical unit speed curve $γ$ and a given point $P \in S^n$, we define the spherical orthotomic curve of $γ$ relative to the point $P$, and classify singularities of spherical orthotomic curves.

Study circle families' envelopes and related curves.

Defines non-parabolic curves in spatial hybrid space with applications.

The calculus correspondence has been known to exist between generic pedal evolutions and generic wave front evolutions. In this paper, we first extend the known results on the calculus correspondence to evolutions with multi-parameters, and then give applications of calculus correspondence. Moreover, we discuss the pos…

In this paper, we introduce the notions of map-germs of pedal unfolding type and normalized Legendrian map-germs; and then we show that the fundamental theorem of calculus provides a natural one to one correspondence between Whitney umbrellas of pedal unfolding type and normalized swallowtails.

In this paper, it is shown that for an $n$-dimensional spherical unit speed curve $γ: I\to S^n$, a given point $P \in S^n$ and a point $s_0$ of the open interval $I$, the spherical orthotomic curve-germ $ort_{γ, P}: (I, s_0)\to S^n$ of $γ$ relative to $P$ is $\mathcal{L}$-equivalent to the spherical pedal curve-germ $p…

Given a simple closed plane curve $Γ$ of length $L$ enclosing a compact convex set $K$ of area $F$, Hurwitz found an upper bound for the isoperimetric deficit, namely $L^2-4πF\leq π|F_{e}|$, where $F_{e}$ is the algebraic area enclosed by the evolute of $Γ$. In this note we improve this inequality finding strictly posi…

Legendre curves are smooth plane curves which may have singular points, but still have a well defined smooth normal (and corresponding tangent) vector field. Because of the existence of singular points, the usual curvature concept for regular curves cannot be straightforwardly extended to these curves. However, Fukunag…

We study the Teichmüller space of negatively curved metrics on a high dimensional manifold, with applications to bundles with negatively curved fibers.

We show that the space of negatively curved metrics of a closed negatively curved Riemannian $n$-manifold, $n\geq 10$, is highly non-connected.

We show that the space of nonpositively curved metrics of a negatively curved manifold is highly non connected.

A simplicial complex is called negatively curved if all its simplices are isometric to simplices in hyperbolic space, and it satisfies Gromov's Link Condition. We prove that, subject to certain conditions, a compact graph of spaces whose vertex spaces are negatively curved 2-complexes, and whose edge spaces are points …

In this paper we study non-negatively curved and rationally elliptic GKM$_4$ manifolds and orbifolds. We show that their rational cohomology rings are isomorphic to the rational cohomology of certain model orbifolds. These models are quotients of isometric actions of finite groups on non-negatively curved torus orbifol…

New Einstein metrics found on complex manifolds.

Paper shows regions close to negatively curved metrics are minimal fillings and rigid.

Study on closed curves on negatively curved surfaces, linking number formula, and restrictions.

New Einstein metrics found in curved spaces.

We define the notions of $S_t^1\times S_s^1$-valued lightcone Gauss maps, lightcone pedal surface and Lorentzian lightcone height function of Lorentzian surface in semi-Euclidean 4-space and established the relationships between singularities of these objects and geometric invariants of the surface as applications of s…

We compute the $L^p$-cohomology spaces of some negatively curved manifolds. We deal with two cases: manifolds with finite volume and sufficiently pinched negative curvature, and conformally compact manifolds.

In this note, we study the radius of positively curved or non-negatively curved Alexandrov space with strictly convex boundary, with convexity measured by the Base-Angle defined by Alexander and Bishop. We also estimate the volume of the boundary of non-negatively curved spaces as well as the rigidity case, which can b…

The paper extends Heintze-Kobayashi-Wolf theory to negatively curved homogeneous Finsler manifolds.

This is a survey on known results and open problems about Smooth and PL-Rigidity Problem for negatively curved locally symmetric spaces. We also review some developments about studying the basic topological properties of the space of negatively curved Riemannian metrics and the Teichmuller space of negatively curved me…

Linear bound on Betti numbers of negatively curved orbifolds.

The study finds sparse sets that uniquely determine metrics on negatively curved manifolds.

We study the moduli space of negatively curved metrics of a hyperbolic manifold.

We prove that if a closed, smooth, simply-connected 4-manifold with a circle action admits an almost non-negatively curved sequence of invariant Riemannian metrics, then it also admits a non-negatively curved Riemannian metric invariant with respect to the same action. The same is shown for torus actions of higher rank…

We show that certain aspherical manifolds arising from hyperplane arrangements in negatively curved manifolds have relatively hyperbolic fundamental group.

We prove that the Teichmüller space $\mathcal{T}^{<0}(M)$ of negatively curved metrics on a hyperbolic manifold $M$ has nontrivial $i$-th rational homotopy groups for some $i> \dim M$. Moreover, some elements of infinite order in $π_i B\mbox{Diff}(M)$ can be represented by bundles over $S^i$ with fiberwise negatively c…

We classify closed, simply-connected, non-negatively curved 6-manifolds of almost maximal symmetry rank up to equivariant diffeomorphism.

We compute the space of $L^2$ harmonic forms (outside the middle degrees) on negatively curved Kaehler manifolds of finite volume.

We give examples of pinched negatively curved manifolds for which the Ricci flow does not converge smoothly.

New theorem shows certain curved surfaces are uniquely identified by their geodesic lengths.

Conditions ensure constant curvature in negatively curved manifolds.

The paper finds many negatively curved Kähler metrics on complex manifolds.

In this paper we announce the following result: ``Every manifold of dimension $\ge3$ admits a complete negatively Ricci curved metric.'' Furthermore we describe some sharper results and sketch proofs.

We use classical results in smoothing theory to extract information about the rational homotopy groups of the space of negatively curved metrics on a high dimensional manifold. It is also shown that smooth M-bundles over spheres equipped with fiberwise negatively curved metrics, represent elements of finite order in th…

Sharp spectral estimates for negatively curved foliations.

In this paper we prove that for all $n=4k-2$, $k\ge2$ there exists closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds $M$ with negative sectional curvature that do not have the homotopy type of a locally symmetric space, such that $π_{1}(\mathcal{T}^{<0}(M))$ is non-trivial. $\mathcal{T}^{<0}(M)$ denotes the Teichmüller space…

We study noncompact, complete, finite volume, negatively curved manifolds $M$. We construct $M$ with infinitely generated fundamental groups in all dimensions $n \geq 2$. We construct $M$ whose cusp cross sections are compact hyperbolic manifolds in all dimension $n\geq 3$. In contrast we show that if sectional curvatu…

Answering a question by Margulis we prove that the conclusion of Selberg's Lemma fails for discrete isometry groups of negatively curved Hadamard manifolds.

In this short note we survey some results about the fundamental group of a compact negatively curved manifold. In particular, we review a theorem of Gusevskij, it states that the fundamental group of a compact negatively curved manifold does not belong to $\mathcal{C},$ where $\mathcal{C}$ is the smallest class of grou…

We give examples of harmonic maps between negatively curved manifolds with special properties. These negatively curved manifolds do not have the homotopy type of a locally symmetric space.

Lower bound for Steklov eigenvalues on negatively curved manifolds.