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A well-known property of the signature of closed oriented 4n-dimensional manifolds is Novikov additivity, which states that if a manifold is split into two manifolds with boundary along an oriented smooth hypersurface, then the signature of the original manifold equals the sum of the signatures of the resulting manifol…

Develops a new family of signature-changing models on metric manifolds.

The paper proves formulas and theorems for sub-signature operators on manifolds with or without boundaries.

The study constructs geometrically decomposable aspherical 4-manifolds with non-zero signature and explores their properties.

Building on the theory of elliptic operators, we give a unified treatment of the following topics: - the problem of homotopy invariance of Novikov's higher signatures on closed manifolds; - the problem of cut-and-paste invariance of Novikov's higher signatures on closed manifolds; - the problem of defining higher signa…

The paper defines a new functional and proves related theorems for manifolds with boundary.

This note shows every integer can be a signature of a hyperbolic 4-manifold.

Let us consider a compact oriented riemannian manifold M without boundary and of dimension n=4k. The signature of M is defined as the signature of a given quadratic form Q. Two different products could be used to define Q and they render equivalent definitions: the exterior product of 2k-forms and the cup product of co…

We define the Analytical signature, the Hodge signature and the de Rham signature for a foliated manifold with boundary with foliation transverse to the boundary. We show that all these signatures coincide and a Hirzebruch formula is valid.

Walker manifolds of signature (2,2) have been used to provide examples of Osserman and of conformal Osserman manifolds of signature (2,2). We study questions of geodesic completeness and Ricci blowup in this context.

We construct examples of nondegenerate CR manifolds with Levi form of signature $(p,q)$, $2\leq p\leq q$, which are compact, not locally CR flat, and admit essential CR vector fields. We also construct an example of a noncompact nondegenerate CR manifold with signature $(1,n-1)$ which is not locally CR flat and admits …

The holonomy algebras of Einstein not Ricci-flat pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary signature are classified. As illustrating examples, the cases of Lorentzian manifolds, pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature $(2,n)$ and the para-quaternionic-Kählerian manifolds with non-zero scalar curvature are considered. E…

For each pair $(e,σ)$ of integers satisfying $2e+3σ\ge 0$, $σ\leq -2$, and $e+σ\equiv 0\pmod{4}$, with four exceptions, we construct a minimal, simply connected symplectic 4-manifold with Euler characteristic $e$ and signature $σ$. We also produce simply connected, minimal symplectic 4-manifolds with signature zero (re…

New symplectic 4-manifolds with non-negative signatures are constructed using complex surfaces and quotients.

Possible holonomy algebras of pseudo-quaternionic-Kählerian manifolds of signature $(4,4)$ are classified. Using this, a new proof of the classification of simply connected pseudo-quaternionic-Kählerian symmetric spaces of signature $(4,4)$ is obtained.

Construct symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with any signature and spin type.

New exotic 4-manifolds with zero signature found.

We define and study the signature, A-hat genus and higher signatures of the quotient space of an $S^1$-action on a closed oriented manifold. We give applications to questions of positive scalar curvature and to an Equivariant Novikov Conjecture.

A theorem transforms Lorentzian to signature-changing metrics.

We give a survey on Meyer functions, with emphasis on their application to the signatures of fibered 4-manifolds.

Study shows non-orientable manifolds restrict signature-changing metrics globally.

We prove that the signature of an even, symmetric form on a finite rank integral lattice, has signature divisible by 8, provided its associated linking form vanishes in the Witt group of linking forms. Our result generalizes the well know fact that an even, unimodular form has signature divisible by 8. We give applicat…

Researchers prove an $L$-theoretic signature transfer in codimension 2.

Machine learning identifies 3-manifold triangulations using isomorphism signatures.

We show that for a C^infty stable map of an oriented 4-manifold into a 3-manifold, the algebraic number of singular fibers of a specific type coincides with the signature of the source 4-manifold.

Study explores embedding signature-changing manifolds into higher-dimensional spaces.

The paper revisits Rokhlin's divisibility theorem and its significance.

We define generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions of product type for Dirac operators associated to C*-vector bundles on the product of a compact manifold with boundary and a closed manifold. We prove a product formula for the K-theoretic index classes, which we use to generalize the product formula for th…

We prove that the higher signature for any close oriented manifold is a simple-homotopy invariant.

This paper continues math.DG/9903140. Here we construct a linking form on the torsion part of middle dimensional extended L^2 homology and cohomology of odd-dimensional manifolds. We give a geometric necessary condition when this linking form is hyperbolic. We compute this linking form in case when the manifold bounds.…

Cobordism and signatures of manifolds with similar fundamental groups.

We revisit the construction of signature classes in C*-algebra K-theory, and develop a variation that allows us to prove equality of signature classes in some situations involving homotopy equivalences of noncompact manifolds that are only defined outside of a compact set. As an application, we prove a counterpart for …

Researchers develop a formula to calculate rho invariant of Dehn surgeries on links.

Explicit formulas for Hattori-Stong integrability conditions and manifolds' signature properties.

Uniformly proves index invariance for signature operators on manifolds.

If M is a compact oriented manifold-with-boundary whose fundamental group is virtually nilpotent or Gromov-hyperbolic, we show that the higher signatures of M are oriented-homotopy invariants.

Researchers extend geodesic orbit properties to pseudo-Riemannian nilmanifolds of specific signature.

For a normal covering over a closed oriented topological manifold we give a proof of the L2-signature theorem with twisted coefficients, using Lipschitz structures and the Lipschitz signature operator introduced by Teleman. We also prove that the L-theory isomorphism conjecture as well as the C^*_max-version of the Bau…

Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of balanced signature which are both spacelike and timelike Jordan Osserman nilpotent of order 2 and of order 3 have been constructed previously. In this short note, we shall construct pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (2s,s) for any s (which is at least 2) which are spacelike Jordan …

In this paper, by combining modularity of the Witten genus and the modular forms constructed by Liu and Wang, we establish mod 3 congruence properties of certain twisted signatures of 24 dimensional string manifolds.

In this paper, we prove a number of inequalities between the signature and the Betti numbers of a 4-manifold with even intersection form. Furthermore, we introduce a new geometric group invariant and discuss some of its properties.

We develop the classification of weakly symmetric pseudo--riemannian manifolds $G/H$ where $G$ is a semisimple Lie group and $H$ is a reductive subgroup. We derive the classification from the cases where $G$ is compact, and then we discuss the (isotropy) representation of $H$ on the tangent space of $G/H$ and the signa…

New examples show some manifolds can't be decomposed.

This note proves that, as K-theory elements, the symbol classes of the de Rham operator and the signature operator on a closed manifold of even dimension are congruent mod 2. An equivariant generalization is given pertaining to the equivariant Euler characteristic and the multi-signature.

Classifies Heisenberg-invariant self-dual Einstein manifolds with explicit metrics.

Completeness theorem for flat pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (2,2).

In the algebraic context, we show that null Osserman, spacelike Osserman, and timelike Osserman are equivalent conditions for a model of signature (2,2). We also classify the null Jordan Osserman models of signature (2,2). In the geometric context, we show that a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of signature (2,2) is null Jo…

We express the signature modulo 4 of a closed, oriented, $4k$-dimensional $PL$ manifold as a linear combination of its Euler characteristic and the new absolute torsion invariant defined in Korzeniewski [11]. Let $F \to E \to B$ be a $PL$ fibre bundle, where $F$, $E$ and $B$ are closed, connected, and compatibly orient…