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48 results for Spivak normal fibration

Research shows reducibility of low dimensional Poincaré complexes in certain cases.

problem The reducibility of Spivak normal fibrations of low dimensional Poincaré complexes.
method Analysis of Spivak normal fibrations and their reducibility properties.
result In dimensions less than 4, reducibility always exists; in dimension 4, it exists if orientable.

Contradicts claims about Poincaré complexes and homology manifolds.

problem Claims about Poincaré complexes and homology manifolds are contradicted.
method Constructs a Poincaré complex with specific properties to contradict the claims.
result A Poincaré complex with vanishing periodic total surgery obstruction is not necessarily homotopy equivalent to a homology manifold.

Study homology manifolds using spectral sheaves and spectral six functor formalism.

problem Characterize and understand homology manifolds through spectral sheaves.
method Adapt six functor formalism to spectral sheaves on locally compact Hausdorff spaces.
result Prove that compact ANR homology manifolds are Poincaré duality complexes.

New method normalizes Milnor fibrations for real analytic maps.

problem Existence of normalized Milnor fibrations for real analytic maps.
method Introducing a homeomorphism to transform a non-normalized Milnor fibration into a normalized one.
result Normalized map (h1f)/h1f(h^{-1}f)/||h^{-1}f|| defines a smooth locally trivial fibration on the sphere.

Study normal operators of double fibration transforms with conjugate points.

problem Normal operators of double fibration transforms with conjugate points.
method Stable conditions on the distribution of conjugate points, splitting into elliptic and Fourier integral operators.
result Normal operator splits into an elliptic pseudodifferential operator and Fourier integral operators.

This paper explores the relationship between generalized manifolds and Poincaré duality complexes.

problem Understanding the relationship between generalized manifolds and finite Poincaré duality complexes.
method Introducing Λ-Poincaré duality complexes, constructing 2-patch spaces, and using Gromov-Hausdorff metric.
result Generalized manifolds can be recognized within an enlarged class of Λ-Poincaré duality complexes.

Many systems of interest in science and engineering are made up of interacting subsystems. These subsystems, in turn, could be made up of collections of smaller interacting subsystems and so on. In a series of papers David Spivak with collaborators formalized these kinds of structures (systems of systems) as algebras o…

2016-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study two types of fibrations associated with a 3-dimensional unital associative irreducible algebra and their basic properties. We investigate trivial principal fibrations of degenerate semi-Euclidean sphere and their semi-conformal and projective models. We use Norden normalization method for constru…

2008-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores properties of shape mmsimpl_{ m simpl}-fibrators among Hopfian manifolds.

problem Characterizing shape mmsimpl_{ m simpl}-fibrators among Hopfian manifolds.
method Investigation of shape mmsimpl_{ m simpl}-fibrators among direct products of Hopfian manifolds.
result Direct products of Hopfian manifolds with coperfectly Hopfian fundamental groups are shape mmsimpl_{ m simpl}-fibrators.

Derived differential manifolds are constructed using the usual homotopy theory of simplicial rings of smooth functions. They are proved to be equivalent to derived differential manifolds of finite type, constructed using homotopy sheaves of homotopy rings (D.Spivak), thus preserving the classical cobordism ring. This r…

2011-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we prove that a normal subgroup N of an n-dimensional crystallographic group G determines a geometric fibered orbifold structure on the flat orbifold E^n/G, and conversely every geometric fibered orbifold structure on E^n/G is determined by a normal subgroup N of G, which is maximal in its commensurabili…

2008-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, helicoidal flat surfaces in the 33-dimensional sphere S3\mathbb{S}^3 are considered. A complete classification of such surfaces is given in terms of their first and second fundamental forms and by linear solutions of the corresponding angle function. The classification is obtained by using the Bianchi-S…

2016-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows scalar curvature of a specific type of manifold converges to -m outside singular points.

problem Analyzing scalar curvature of Kahler-Ricci flow on manifolds with positive Kodaira dimension.
method Calabi-Yau fibration and normalized Kahler-Ricci flow approach.
result Scalar curvature converges to -m outside singular points.

Constructs non-Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds with large Betti numbers.

problem Finding non-Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds with high Betti numbers.
method Smoothing normal crossing varieties to create K3 fibrations over smooth projective varieties.
result Examples of non-Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds with arbitrarily large 2nd Betti numbers.

Researchers create a projective space for quasimaps and study its connections to Calabi-Yau fibrations.

problem Understanding the moduli spaces of quasimaps and Calabi-Yau fibrations.
method Constructing a projective K-moduli space of quasimaps and investigating relationships with Calabi-Yau fibrations.
result Entire quasi-projectivity and ampleness of the CM line bundle on the normalization of the K-moduli space of Calabi-Yau fibrations.

This paper is devoted to the complete classification of space curves under affine transformations in the view of Cartan's theorem. Spivak has introduced the method but has not found the invariants. Furthermore, for the first time, we propound a necessary and sufficient condition for the invariants. Then, we study the s…

2007-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the existence of projectable GG-invariant Einstein metrics on the total space of GG-equivariant fibrations M=G/LG/KM=G/L\to G/K, for a compact connected semisimple Lie group GG. We obtain necessary conditions for the existence of such Einstein metrics in terms of appropriate Casimir operators, which is a generali…

2009-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Random high-dimensional manifolds lack totally geodesic submanifolds.

problem Understanding the structure of random high-dimensional manifolds.
method Analyzing totally geodesic submanifolds in generic Riemannian n-manifolds.
result Generic closed Riemannian n-manifolds for n≥4 have no nontrivial totally geodesic submanifolds.

Study finds conditions for finite-dimensional Lie group structure in basic automorphism groups of certain Cartan foliations.

problem Characterizing the basic automorphism groups of Cartan foliations.
method Analyzes sufficient conditions and estimates dimensions for basic automorphism groups of Cartan foliations covered by fibrations.
result Identifies sufficient conditions for the existence of a finite-dimensional Lie group structure in basic automorphism groups.

The article studies mapping properties of Radon transform and backprojection on a unit ball.

problem Polyhomogeneous mapping properties of Radon transform and backprojection operator on the unit ball.
method Constructs a double b-fibration to desingularize the point-hyperplane relation, provides formulas and sharper estimates.
result Sharper estimates on polyhomogeneous mapping properties of Radon transform and backprojection compared to classic estimates.

We consider normal almost contact structures on a Riemannian manifold and, through their associated sections of an ad-hoc twistor bundle, study their harmonicity, as sections or as maps. We rewrite these harmonicity equations in terms of the Riemann curvature tensor and find conditions relating the harmonicity of the a…

2011-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider manifolds endowed with a contact pair structure. To such a structure are naturally associated two almost complex structures. If they are both integrable, we call the structure a normal contact pair. We generalize the Morimoto's Theorem on product of almost contact manifolds to flat bundles. We construct som…

2008-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study projective structures and rational curves to understand Painlevé equations.

problem Analyzing projective structures and rational curves on surfaces.
method Analytic classification, normal forms, pencil/fibration decomposition, infinitesimal symmetries.
result Deduced transcendental results about Painlevé equations.

Study X-ray transform on manifolds, desingularize, and improve mapping properties.

problem Characterize mapping properties of X-ray transform and its adjoint on manifolds with strictly convex boundary.
method Use b-fibrations, desingularize, and apply Melrose's Pushforward Theorem to analyze polyhomogeneous functions.
result Improved mapping properties of X-ray transform and its adjoint, recovering sharp results.

In this work we study the existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics on the total space of homogeneous fibrations such that the fibers are totally geodesic manifolds. We obtain the Ricci curvature of an invariant metric with totally geodesic fibers and some necessary conditions for such a metric to be Einstein in terms …

2009-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

It was conjectured, twenty years ago, the following result that would generalize the so-called rank rigidity theorem for homogeneous Euclidean submanifolds: let M^n, n>=2, be a full and irreducible homogeneous submanifold of the sphere SN1RNS^{N-1}\subset R^N and such that the normal holonomy group is not transitive (on t…

2013-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study harmonicity of normal almost contact structures on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Understanding harmonicity of normal almost contact structures.
method Analyzing harmonicity through associated sections of a twistor bundle and rewriting equations in terms of curvature tensor.
result Conditions relating harmonicity of almost contact metric and almost complex structures.

We describe complex twistor spaces over inner 3-symmetric spaces G/HG/H, such that HH acts transitively on the fibre. Like in the symmetric case, these are flag manifolds G/KG/K where KK is the centralizer of a torus in GG. Moreover, they carry an almost complex structure defined using the horizontal distribution of t…

2006-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Motivated by the picture of mirror symmetry suggested by Strominger, Yau and Zaslow, we made a conjecture concerning the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Calabi-Yau n-folds (with Ricci-flat Kähler metric) as one approaches a large complex structure limit point in moduli; a similar conjecture was made independently by Kontsev…

2000-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A very important class of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds are the so-called normal homogeneous spaces, which have associated a canonical connection. In this work we obtain geometrically the (connected component of the) group of affine transformations with respect to the canonical connection for a normal homogeneous sp…

2009-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The study proves that certain surface singularities are planar only for AnA_n-singularities.

problem Characterizing planar links of normal surface singularities.
method Using contact structures and symplectic fillings, the study applies obstructions to canonical contact structures.
result Links of isolated singularities of surfaces in the complex 3-space are planar only for AnA_n-singularities.

Study local curvature of Kähler-Ricci flow on semi-ample manifolds.

problem Local curvature estimates of long-time solutions to Kähler-Ricci flow.
method Local curvature estimates using semi-ample canonical line bundles.
result Set of singular fibers where curvature blows up is independent of initial metric.

Applying logarithmic transformations along 2-tori, we construct a generalized complex structure J_n with n type changing luci for every n0n\geq 0 on genus 1-Lefschetz fibrations with a cusp neighborhood, which include elliptic surfaces with non-zero euler characteristic. Applying a technique of broken Lefschetz fibrati…

2013-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This thesis studies geometric structures using Lie algebroids to simplify singular behavior.

problem Understanding and simplifying geometric structures with singularities.
method Developed a framework using Lie algebroids to lift and study geometric structures.
result Lifted structures to Lie algebroid versions, making them less singular and easier to study.

Study nondegenerate fibrations of Euclidean spaces and their relation to sphere fibrations.

problem Classify and understand nondegenerate fibrations of Euclidean spaces.
method Topological and geometric analysis of nondegenerate fibrations, including continuity at infinity.
result Prove that every germ of a nondegenerate fibration extends to a global fibration.

New Poisson and near-symplectic structures found on 6D wrinkled fibrations.

problem Finding compatible geometric structures on 6D wrinkled fibrations.
method Extending wrinkled fibrations to 6D and proving the existence of rank-2 Poisson structures and near-symplectic structures.
result 6D wrinkled fibrations can be equipped with Poisson and near-symplectic structures.

Singular fibrations over surfaces generalize Lefschetz fibrations and have new construction methods.

problem Understanding and constructing singular fibrations over surfaces.
method Explains how to construct examples of singular fibrations with a single singularity and outlines previous results.
result Closed orientable 4-manifolds with large first Betti number and vanishing second Betti number do not admit singular fibrations.

Third in a series, this paper constructs non-trivial Cayley fibrations with conical singularities.

problem Constructing non-trivial Cayley fibrations with conical singularities.
method Using gluing methods and stability results for weak and usual fibrations.
result Construction of examples of Cayley fibrations on twisted connected sum G2G_2 manifolds.