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The paper classifies and studies conformal variations of submanifolds.

New classification of hypersurfaces with conformal variations.

New variational principles found for conformal geodesics.

Variationality of conformal geodesics fails in higher dimensions.

In 3D, conformal geodesics are variational.

Derives stress-energy identities in Liouville theory on compact surfaces.

A piecewise flat manifold is a triangulated manifold given a geometry by specifying edge lengths (lengths of 1-simplices) and specifying that all simplices are Euclidean. We consider the variation of angles of piecewise flat manifolds as the geometry varies in a particular way, which we call a conformal variation. This…

We derive a class of variational functionals which arise naturally in conformal geometry. In the special case when the Riemannian manifold is locally conformal flat, the functional coincides with the well studied functional which is the integration over the manifold of the k-symmetric function of the Schouten tensor of…

The paper studies metrics that match prescribed geodesics and introduces a variational problem.

A piecewise constant curvature manifold is a triangulated manifold that is assigned a geometry by specifying lengths of edges and stipulating that for a chosen background geometry (Euclidean, hyperbolic, or spherical), each simplex has an isometric embedding into the background geometry with the chosen edge lengths. Ad…

Study on conical singularities in 2D surfaces, deriving Polyakov formulas.

Conformally variational Riemannian invariants (CVIs), such as the scalar curvature, are homogeneous scalar invariants which arise as the gradient of a Riemannian functional. We establish a wide range of stability and rigidity results involving CVIs, generalizing many such results for the scalar curvature.

We define a new formal Riemannian metric on a conformal class in the context of the $v_{\frac{n}{2}}$-Yamabe problem. Our construction leads to a new variational characterization and a new parabolic flow approach to this problem. Moreover, this variational framework suggests that solutions to this problem are unique in…

Conformal invariance plays a significant role in many areas of Physics, such as conformal field theory, renormalization theory, turbulence, general relativity. Naturally, it also plays an important role in geometry: theory of Riemannian surfaces, Weyl tensors, $Q$-curvature, Yang-Mills fields, etc... We shall be concer…

Study identifies obstructions for solving a 4th-order boundary problem.

Minimal surfaces in harmonic conformally flat space are studied.

Compact formulas for Yang-Mills conditions on conformal manifolds.

The abstract discusses nonuniqueness results for specific Riemannian invariants.

The Willmore energy, alias bending energy or rigid string action, and its variation-the Willmore invariant-are important surface conformal invariants with applications ranging from cell membranes to the entanglement entropy in quantum gravity. In work of Andersson, Chrusciel, and Friedrich, the same invariant arises as…

Constrained Willmore surfaces are conformal immersions of Riemann surfaces that are critical points of the Willmore energy $W=\int H^2$ under compactly supported infinitesimal conformal variations. Examples include all constant mean curvature surfaces in space forms. In this paper we investigate more generally the crit…

New invariant connects boundary PDEs and conformal geometry.

We study the conformally invariant variational problem for time-like curves in the $n$-dimensional Einstein universe defined by the conformal strain functional. We prove that the stationary curves are trapped into an Einsetin universe of dimension $2$, $3$ or $4$. We study the linearly-full stationary curves in a four-…

Study local diffeomorphisms of conformal circles in pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

Study connects K3 surfaces to holomorphic metrics, solving complex structure variation.

Discrete conformal maps on surfaces with vertex decorations are studied.

Proposes a new variational principle for Einstein gravity.

Polyconvex energies with conformal invariance have smooth stationary points outside a discrete set.

The paper establishes a connection between force-free fields and conformally geodesic fields.

Study connects weighted isoperimetric problems to nonlocal elliptic operator extensions.

In this article we study constrained variational problems in one independent variable defined on the space of integral curves of a Frenet system in a homogeneous space G/H. We prove that if the Lagrangian is G-invariant and coisotropic then the extremal curves can be found by quadratures. Our proof is constructive and …

Study eigenvalues of conformal Laplacian under Sire-Xu normalization.

We develop the calculus for hypersurface variations based on variation of the hypersurface defining function. This is used to show that the functional gradient of a new Willmore-like, conformal hypersurface energy agrees exactly with the obstruction to smoothly solving the singular Yamabe problem for conformally compac…

There is a Lorenzian group acting on the conformal space ${\mathbb Q}^n_p$. We study the regular submanifolds in the conformal space ${\mathbb Q}^n_p$ and construct general submanifold theory in the conformal space ${\mathbb Q}^n_p$. Finally we give the first variation formula of the Willmore volume functional of subma…

In this note, we compute the second variational formula for the functional $\int_M v^{(6)}(g)dv_g$, which was introduced by Graham-Juhl and the first variational formula was obtained by Chang-Fang. We also prove that Einstein manifolds (with dimension $\ge 7$) with positive scalar curvature is a strict local maximum wi…

The paper constructs new bimetric conformal invariants using metric perturbations.

We construct a series of conformally invariant differential operators acting on weighted trace-free symmetric 2-tensors by a method similar to Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling's. For compact conformal manifolds of dimension even and greater than or equal to four with vanishing ambient obstruction tensor, one of these operat…

Unified approach for predicting missing segments in partially observed functions.

The main result is the identification of the orthogonal complement of the subalgebra of conformal vector field inside the algebra of all vector fields of a compact flat 2-manifold. As a fundamental tool, the complete Hodge decomposition for manifold with boundary is used. The identification allows the derivation of gov…

Motivated by recent progress on a spinorial analogue of the Yamabe problem in the geometric literature, we study a conformally invariant spinor field equation on the $m$-sphere, $m\geq2$. Via variational methods and the spinorial Weierstraß representation, we study the problem of prescribing mean curvature for the imme…

Study on Yang-Mills equations on conformally compact manifolds, finding obstructions and asymptotics.

We analyze the structure of the boundary terms in the conformal anomaly integrated over a manifold with boundaries. We suggest that the anomalies of type B, polynomial in the Weyl tensor, are accompanied with the respective boundary terms of the Gibbons-Hawking type. Their form is dictated by the requirement that they …

In this paper we consider the coupled system given by the first variation of the conformal Dirac-Einstein functional. We will show existence of solutions by means of perturbation methods.

A neural network method tackles high-dimensional diffeomorphic mapping problems.

The paper studies volumes of conformally flat manifolds in light-cone geometry.

We show that the energy density of critical points of a class of conformally invariant variational problems with small energy on the unit 2-disk B_1 lies in the local Hardy space h^1(B_1). As a corollary we obtain a new proof of the energy convexity and uniqueness result for weakly harmonic maps with small energy on B_…

We define a new formal Riemannian metric on a conformal classes of four-manifolds in the context of the $σ_2$-Yamabe problem. Exploiting this new variational structure we show that solutions are unique unless the manifold is conformally equivalent to the round sphere.

Study of deformations of Virasoro symmetries using variational bihamiltonian cohomology.

Develops a unified framework for computing n-dimensional quasi-conformal mappings.