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The ball maximizes the first biharmonic Steklov eigenvalue.

Two geodesic balls maximize the third Neumann eigenvalue in hyperbolic space.

Compactifies maximal component of surface group representations into a closed ball.

Study on second Robin eigenvalue for Laplacian on manifolds.

Constructs ε-splitting maps for geodesic balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.

We study multi-parameter Carnot-Caratheodory balls, generalizing results due to Nagel, Stein, and Wainger in the single parameter setting. The main technical result is seen as a uniform version of the theorem of Frobenius. In addition, we study maximal functions associated to certain multi-parameter families of Carnot-…

We introduce the non-pure versions of simplicial balls and spheres with minimum number of vertices. These are a special type of non-homogeneous balls and spheres (NH-balls and NH-spheres) satisfying a minimality condition on the number of maximal simplices. The main result is that minimal NH-balls and NH-spheres are pr…

Extends scaling maps theory to manifolds with boundary.

In constant curvatures spaces, there are a lot of characterizations of geodesic balls as optimal domain for shape optimization problems. Although it is natural to expect similar characterizations in rank one symmetric spaces, very few is known in this setting. In this paper we prove that, in a non-compact rank one symm…

Paper proves geodesic ball maximizes second Robin eigenvalue in non-compact symmetric spaces.

Optimal financial strategies minimize risk under uncertain models.

The paper examines Euclidean domains with nearly maximal Yamabe quotients.

Given a smooth simply connected planar domain, the area is bounded away from zero in terms of the maximal curvature alone. We show that in higher dimensions this is not true, and for a given maximal mean curvature we provide smooth embeddings of the ball with arbitrary small volume.

Sharp Veronese rigidity theorem for submanifolds of unit ball.

The study finds the optimal metrics for free boundary minimal surfaces in spherical caps.

We derive an explicit lower bound on the radius of a ball embedded in a quaternionic hyperbolic manifold.

In Euclidean and Hyperbolic space, and the hemisphere in $S^n$, geodesic balls maximize the gap $λ_2 - λ_1$ of Dirichlet eigenvalues, amoung domains with fixed $λ_1$. We prove an upper bound on $λ_2 - λ_1$ for domains in manifolds with certain curvature bounds. The inequality is sharp on geodesic balls in spaceforms.

Constructs minimal surfaces in balls, maximizing eigenvalues.

This study examines abnormal geodesics in 2D-Zermelo navigation problems, revealing their role in separating time minimal and maximal curves.

Let $B_1$ be a ball of radius $r_1$ in $S^n(\Hy^n)$, and let $B_0$ be a smaller ball of radius $r_0$ such that $\bar{B_0}\subset B_1$. For $S^n$ we consider $r_1< π$. Let $u$ be a solution of the problem $-\La u =1$ in $\Om := B_1\setminus \bar{B_0}$ vanishing on the boundary. It is shown that the associated functional…

We show that metrics that maximize the k-th Steklov eigenvalue on surfaces with boundary arise from free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball. We prove several properties of the volumes of these minimal submanifolds. For free boundary minimal submanifolds in the ball we show that the boundary volume is reduced up…

Motivated by Perelman's Pseudo Locality Theorem for the Ricci flow, we prove that if a Riemannian manifold has Ricci curvature bounded below in a metric ball which moreover has almost maximal volume, then in a smaller ball (in a quantified sense) it holds an almost-euclidean isoperimetric inequality. The result is actu…

The smallest $r$ so that a metric $r$-ball covers a metric space $M$ is called the radius of $M$. The volume of a metric $r$-ball in the space form of constant curvature $k$ is an upper bound for the volume of any Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $\geq k$ and radius $\leq r$. We show that when such a manifo…

In this article we prove first of all the nonexistence of holomorphic submersions other than covering maps between compact quotients of complex unit balls, with a proof that works equally well in a more general equivariant setting. For a non-equidimensional surjective holomorphic map between compact ball quotients, our…

This paper studies certain embedded spheres in closed affine manifolds. For $n \geq 3$, we investigate the dome bodies in a closed affine $n$-manifold $M$ with its boundary homeomorphic to a sphere under the assumption that a developing map restricted to a component of $\partial\hat{M}$ is an embedding onto a strictly …

We prove that curves indicated in the title exist. This results answers to a question posed by A.G.Vitushkin about 30 years ago. We also discuss the minimal number of boundary components of a curve in the unit ball passing through the center, under the condition that all these components are shorter than a given number…

Study free boundary minimal submanifolds in geodesic balls in hyperbolic and spherical spaces.

Let $M$ be a compact $n$-manifold of $\operatorname{Ric}_M\ge (n-1)H$ ($H$ is a constant). We are concerned with the following space form rigidity: $M$ is isometric to a space form of constant curvature $H$ under either of the following conditions: (i) There is $ρ>0$ such that for any $x\in M$, the open $ρ$-ball at $x^…

This paper proves a new, more precise version of Cheng's maximal diameter theorem for manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.

We consider the class of $λ$-concave bodies in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$; that is, convex bodies with the property that each of their boundary points supports a tangent ball of radius $1/λ$ that lies locally (around the boundary point) inside the body. In this class we solve a reverse isoperimetric problem: we show that the co…

We prove existence and regularity of metrics on a surface with boundary which maximize sigma_1 L where sigma_1 is the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue and L the boundary length. We show that such metrics arise as the induced metrics on free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball B^n for some n. In the case of the a…

Study controls curvature in Ricci flows using necks.

Let M be a complete n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, if the sobolev inqualities hold on M, then the geodesic ball has maximal volume growth; if the Ricci curvature of M is nonnegative, and one of the general Sobolev inequalities holds on M, then M is diffeomorphic to $R^{n}$.

New functionals defined for free boundary minimal submanifolds in higher dimensions.

The paper constructs free boundary minimal surfaces in product spaces using eigenvalue methods.

Let B be a thick spherical building equipped with its natural CAT(1) metric and let M be a proper, convex subset of B. If M is open or if M is a closed ball of radius pi/2, then the maximal subcomplex supported by the complement of M is spherical and non contractible.

This is the second paper of two in a series under the same title ([CRX]); both study the quantitative volume space form rigidity conjecture: a closed $n$-manifold of Ricci curvature at least $(n-1)H$, $H=\pm 1$ or $0$ is diffeomorphic to a $H$-space form if for every ball of definite size on $M$, the lifting ball on th…

If F is a family of mod 2 flat k-cycles in the unit n-ball, we lower bound the maximal volume of any cycle in F in terms of the homology class of F in the space of all cycles. We give examples to show that these lower bounds are fairly sharp.

We study the local Szegö-Weinberger profile in a geodesic ball $B_g(y_0,r_0)$ centered at a point $y_0$ in a Riemannian manifold $(\M,g)$. This profile is obtained by maximizing the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue $μ_2$ of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator $Δ_g$ on $\M$ among subdomains of $B_g(y_0,r_0)$ with fixed vol…

In this paper we prove that given a volume, among all domains with smooth boundary in rank-1 symmetric spaces of noncompact type, geodesic balls maximizes the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue. We also prove a comparison result for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue for domains in simply connected Riemannian manifolds…

This paper looks at the splitting problem for globally hyperbolic spacetimes with timelike Ricci curvature bounded below containing a (spacelike, acausal, future causally complete) hypersurface with mean curvature bounded from above. For such spacetimes we show a splitting theorem under the assumption of either the exi…

New algorithms solve linear bandits in high dimensions efficiently.

Higher surgeries preserve Steklov spectra in 3D and above.

In recent years, eigenvalue optimization problems have received a lot of attention, in particular, due to their connection with the theory of minimal surfaces. In the present paper we prove that on any orientable surface there exists a smooth metric maximizing the first normalized Steklov eigenvalue. For surfaces of ge…

We investigate representations of Kähler groups $Γ= π_1(X)$ to a semisimple non-compact Hermitian Lie group $G$ that are deformable to a representation admitting an (anti)-holomorphic equivariant map. Such representations obey a Milnor--Wood inequality similar to those found by Burger--Iozzi and Koziarz--Maubon. Thanks…

Upper bound found for first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue.

We show that the ball does not maximize the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue among all contractible domains of fixed boundary volume in $\mathbb{R}^n$ when $n \geq 3$. This is in contrast to the situation when $n=2$, where a result of Weinstock from 1954 shows that the disk uniquely maximizes the first Steklov eigenval…

Study finds surfaces in spherical caps that maximize modified energy.