arXiv research

Functor connects symplectic and contact structures via cutting and blowups.

Modulo trivial exceptions, we show that smoothly nontrivial symplectic sums of symplectic 4-manifolds along surfaces of positive genus are never rational or ruled, and we enumerate each case in which they have Kodaira dimension zero (i.e., are blowups of symplectic 4-manifolds with torsion canonical class). In particul…

The standard contact structure on the three-sphere is invariant under the action of the cyclic group of order p yielding the lens space L(p,q). Therefore, every lens space carries a natural quotient contact structure Q. A theorem of Eliashberg and McDuff classifies the symplectic fillings of (L(p,1), Q) up to diffeomor…

The paper solves symplectic embedding problems in higher dimensions, proving new embedding conditions.

We classify the periodic Hamiltonian flows on compact four dimensional symplectic manifolds up to isomorphism of Hamiltonian S^1 spaces. Additionally, we show that all these spaces are Kaehler, that every such space is obtained from a simple model by a sequence of symplectic blowups, and that if the fixed points are is…

We consider structures analogous to symplectic Lefschetz pencils in the context of a closed 4-manifold equipped with a `near-symplectic' structure (ie, a closed 2-form which is symplectic outside a union of circles where it vanishes transversely). Our main result asserts that, up to blowups, every near-symplectic 4-man…

The paper explores symplectic foliations and their leaves on manifolds.

We introduce the $2$-nodal spherical deformation of certain singular fibers of genus $2$ fibrations, and use such deformations to construct various examples of simply connected minimal symplectic $4$-manifolds with small topology. More specifically, we construct new exotic minimal symplectic $4$-manifolds homeomorphic …

Characterizes elliptic operators on singular foliations.

Constructing compact non-Kähler manifolds with and without the Hard Lefschetz Condition

We study the classification of Lefschetz fibrations up to stabilization by fiber sum operations. We show that for each genus there is a `universal' fibration f^0_g with the property that, if two Lefschetz fibrations over S^2 have the same Euler-Poincare characteristic and signature, the same numbers of reducible singul…

Study Toda systems blowup masses linked to Weyl groups.

Paper analyzes blowup of regularized Jang solutions and constant expansion surfaces.

Global and local blowups of manifolds are proven equivalent.

Ancient ovals are key blowup limits in 3D Ricci flow near singularities.

We give conditions under which the blowup of an extremal Kähler manifold along a submanifold of codimension greater than two admits an extremal metric. This generalizes work of Arezzo-Pacard-Singer, who considered blowups in points.

The paper resolves singular foliations through a series of blowups.

Stable blowup solutions found for supercritical Yang-Mills equations.

Stable blowup profile identified for wave maps in all dimensions.

Kähler blowups can have scalar curvature arbitrarily close to any given metric.

Strict type-II blowup in harmonic map flow is proven to have Hölder continuous body map.

We pursue the symplectic description of toric Kahler manifolds. There exists a general local classification of metrics on toric Kahler manifolds equipped with Hamiltonian two-forms due to Apostolov, Calderbank and Gauduchon(ACG). We derive the symplectic potential for these metrics. Using a method due to Abreu, we rela…

The aim of this paper is to collect some facts about the blowup of Jang's equation. First, we discuss how to construct solutions that blow up at an outermost MOTS. Second, we exclude the possibility that there are extra blowup surfaces in data sets with non-positive mean curvature. Then we investigate the rate of conve…

Study the pullbacks and blowups of Lie algebroids and related structures.

The paper finds asymmetric Type-I blowup solutions for Yang-Mills flow.

Uniqueness of nondegenerate blowups for planar networks shown.

Wave maps with noise can lead to self-similar blowup from arbitrary initial data.

Study proves energy critical heat equation solutions are Type I blowups for n ≥ 7.

Study deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation on complex projective space blowup.

Stability of weighted extremal manifolds proven through blowups.

We construct minimal laminations with prescribed singularities on a line segment using perturbation techniques and PDE methods. In addition to the singular set, the rate of curvature blowup is also prescribable in our construction, and we show that all curvature blowup rates between quadratic and quartic arise. Our res…

Characterizes blowups of Dirac structures on manifolds.

We study almost-calibrated, $O(n)$-equivariant Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{C}^n$, and prove structural theorems about the Type I and Type II blowups of finite-time singularities. In particular, we prove that any Type I blowup of such a flow must be a special Lagrangian pair of transversely intersecting p…

We present natural and general ways of building Lie groupoids, by using the classical procedures of blowups and of deformations to the normal cone. Our constructions are seen to recover many known ones involved in index theory. The deformation and blowup groupoids obtained give rise to several extensions of $C^*$-algeb…

We describe a method for recursively calculating Gromov-Witten invariants of all blowups of the projective plane. This recursive formula is different from the recursive formulas due to Göttsche and Pandharipande in the zero genus case, and Caporaso and Harris in the case of no blowups. We use tropical curves and a recu…

Blowups of Kähler manifolds can inherit extremal metrics.

Yamabe invariants of certain non-Kähler surfaces are zero.

Proves invariance of weighted extremal Kähler metrics under smooth blowups.

We show relationships between uniform K-stability and plt blowups of log Fano pairs. We see that it is enough to evaluate certain invariants defined by volume functions for all plt blowups in order to test uniform K-stability of log Fano pairs. We also discuss the uniform K-stability of two log Fano pairs under crepant…

Study curvature of blown-up manifold, finds negative holomorphic sectional curvature.

Consider a vector bundle over a Kähler manifold which admits a Hermitian Yang-Mills connection. We show that the pullback bundle on the blowup of the Kähler manifold at a collection of points also admits a Hermitian Yang-Mills connection, for Kähler classes on the blowup which make the exceptional divisors small. Our p…

In the paper we formulate and derive the family blowup formula of family Seiberg-Witten invariants. The formula has been used in the enumerative application of counting singular curves on algebraic surfaces. We first give a topological derivation of the formula by using family index theorem. Then we define the algebrai…

We prove the expansion formula for the classical Futaki invariants on the blowup of Kähler surfaces, which explains the balancing condition of Arezzo-Pacard. The relation with Stoppa's result is also discussed.

The blow-down map is studied in Lie algebroid cohomology.

New method proves uniqueness in mean curvature flow.

Blowups of Kähler manifolds with extremal metrics inherit such metrics under stability conditions.

The paper constructs and analyzes self-similar blowup solutions for a wave map equation.

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.