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Generalizes complex manifolds to manifolds with corners and generalized corners.

Extends corner structure study to general case, constructs normal Trans-Sasakian structures.

We construct a smooth Lie group structure on the group of real analytic diffeomorphisms of a compact analytic manifold with corners. This generalises the known analogous results in the situation where the real analytic manifold has no corners. Additionally our approach uses a different construction.

Manifolds with boundary and with corners form categories ${\bf Man}\subset{\bf Man^b}\subset{\bf Man^c}$. A manifold with corners $X$ has two notions of tangent bundle: the tangent bundle $TX$, and the b-tangent bundle ${}^bTX$. The usual definition of smooth structure uses $TX$, as $f:X\to\mathbb{R}$ is defined to be …

The study defines differential forms and currents on orbifolds with corners.

If $X$ is a manifold then the set $C^\infty(X)$ of smooth functions $f:X\to\mathbb R$ is a $C^\infty$-ring, a rich algebraic structure with many operations. $C^\infty$-schemes are schemes over $C^\infty$-rings, a way of using Algebro-Geometric techniques in Differential Geometry. They include smooth manifolds, but also…

We prove that in a class of non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds corners are not length minimizing. This extends the results [4]. As an application of our main result we complete and simplify the analysis in [6], showing that in a 4-dimensional sub-Riemannian structure suggested by Agrachev and Gauthier all length-…

Corners can be identified by a drum's sound spectrum.

In conventional Differential Geometry one studies manifolds, locally modelled on ${\mathbb R}^n$, manifolds with boundary, locally modelled on $[0,\infty)\times{\mathbb R}^{n-1}$, and manifolds with corners, locally modelled on $[0,\infty)^k\times{\mathbb R}^{n-k}$. They form categories ${\bf Man}\subset{\bf Man^b}\sub…

Manifolds without boundary, and manifolds with boundary, are universally known in Differential Geometry, but manifolds with corners (locally modelled on [0,\infty)^k x R^{n-k}) have received comparatively little attention. The basic definitions in the subject are not agreed upon, there are several inequivalent definiti…

Proves spacetime positive mass theorem with corners.

This paper is concerned with pseudodifferential calculus on manifolds with fibred corners. Following work of Connes, Monthubert, Skandalis and Androulidakis, we associate to every manifold with fibred corners a longitudinally smooth groupoid which algebraic and differential structure is explicitely described. This grou…

We uncover and highlight relations between the M-branes in M-theory and various topological invariants: the Hopf invariant over $\mathbb{Q}$, $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_2$, the Kervaire invariant, the $f$-invariant, and the $ν$-invariant. This requires either a framing or a corner structure. The canonical framing pro…

Bordered Floer homology assigns invariants to 3-manifolds with boundary, such that the Heegaard Floer homology of a closed 3-manifold, split into two pieces, can be recovered as a tensor product of the bordered invariants of the pieces. We construct cornered Floer homology invariants of 3-manifolds with codimension-2 c…

New curvature measures for 4D manifolds with corners defined and related to Gauss-Bonnet.

Defines products for fibered corners manifolds, generalizing resolutions.

Extends 4D cornered skein theory to surfaces, proving gluing formulas.

Solves relative isoperimetric problem on polygonal domains, focusing on corners.

We give elementary constructions of manifold with corner structures and associative gluing maps on compactifications of spaces of infinite, half infinite, and finite Morse flow lines.

Paper proves corner connection tiles can represent knots with fewer tiles.

Fourth-order problem on half-ball with corner behavior.

We introduce the notions of the caustic-equivalence and the weak caustic-equivalence relations of reticular Lagrangian maps in order to give a generic classification of caustics on a corner. We give the figures of all generic caustics on a corner in a smooth manifold of dimension 2 and 3.

This paper considers asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds with a finite boundary intersecting the usual infinite boundary -- cornered asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds -- and proves a theorem of Cartan-Hadamard type near infinity for the normal exponential map on the finite boundary. As a main application, a normal fo…

Currents with corners help count triangulations on surfaces.

New tile types for knots and links reduce complexity.

New heat trace coefficients reveal curvature effects in polygonal domains.

Lipshitz, Ozsváth and Thurston defined a bordered Heegaard Floer invariant CFDA for 3-manifolds with two boundary components, including mapping cylinders for surface diffeomorphisms. We define a related invariant for certain 4-dimensional cobordisms with corners, by associating a morphism F from CFDA(f) to CFDA(g) to e…

Bordered Floer homology associates to a parametrized oriented surface a certain differential graded algebra. We study the properties of this algebra under splittings of the surface. To the circle we associate a differential graded 2-algebra, the nilCoxeter sequential 2-algebra, and to a surface with connected boundary …

We study metrics with positive scalar curvatures in domains with corners and suggest possible extensions of the concept of positive scalar curvature to singular spaces.

In this paper we present another notion of a smooth manifold with corners and relate it to the commonly used concept in the literature. Afterwards we introduce complex manifolds with corners and show that if $M$ is a compact (respectively complex) manifold with corners and $K$ is a smooth (respectively complex) Lie gro…

Proves Gromov's conjecture and answers Stoker's polyhedron conjecture.

M-theory can be defined on closed manifolds as well as on manifolds with boundary. As an extension, we show that manifolds with corners appear naturally in M-theory. We illustrate this with four situations: The lift to bounding twelve dimensions of M-theory on Anti de Sitter spaces, ten-dimensional heterotic string the…

This paper makes a formal study of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics given, as conformal infinity, a conformal manifold with boundary. The space on which such an Einstein metric exists thus has a finite boundary in addition to the usual infinite boundary and a corner where the two meet. On the finite boundary …

Positive mass theorem for non-smooth metrics on flat manifolds with corners.

This article is a survey of recent work of the author, together with Markus Banagl, Eric Leichtnam, Rafe Mazzeo, and Paolo Piazza, on the Hodge theory of stratified spaces. We discuss how to resolve a Thom-Mather stratified space to a manifold with corners with an iterated fibration structure and the generalization of …

We introduce the notion of reticular Legendrian unfoldings in order to investigate stabilities of bifurcations of wavefronts generated by a hypersurface germ with a boundary, a corner, or an r-corner in a smooth n dimensional manifold. We define several stabilities of reticular Legendrian unfoldings and prove that they…

For every connected manifold with corners we use a homology theory called conormal homology, defined in terms of faces and incidences and whose cycles correspond geometrically to corner's cycles. Its Euler characteristic (over the rationals, dimension of the total even space minus the dimension of the total odd space),…

The paper constructs submanifolds with corners in Delzant polytopes from affine subspaces.

This paper is a short version of some joint work with Stefan Haller. It describes the structure of "smooth manifold with corners" on the space of possibly broken instantons and on the completion of unstable manifolds of a generic smooth vector field. The result is stated in Theorem 1.4.

Given a connected manifold with corners of any codimension there is a very basic and computable homology theory called conormal homology defined in terms of faces and orientations of their conormal bundles, and whose cycles correspond geometrically to corner's cycles. Our main theorem is that, for any manifold with cor…

New framework for logarithmically divergent integrals on manifolds with corners.

Defines s-manifolds and s-manifolds with corners for symplectic applications.

We use PDE methods as developed for the Liouville equation to study the existence of conformal metrics with prescribed singularities on surfaces with boundary, the boundary condition being constant geodesic curvature. Our first result shows that a disk with two corners admits a conformal metric with constant Gauss curv…

New method reveals corners of drum shapes.

Introduces generalized products for pseudodifferential operators on manifolds with corners.

We concretely construct a 2-categorically extended TQFT that extends the Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT to cobordisms with corners. The source category will be a well chosen 2-category of decorated cobordisms with corners and the target bicategory will be the Kapranov-Voevodsky 2-vector spaces.

We extend the notion of reticular Legendrian unfoldings in order to investigate multi-time bifurcations of wavefronts generated by an r-corner. We give a classification list of generic and stable bifurcations with two time parameter and give all generic figures in the plane and the space.

In this paper we prove the propagation of singularities for the wave equation on differential forms with natural (i.e. relative or absolute) boundary conditions on Lorentzian manifolds with corners, which in particular includes a formulation of Maxwell's equations. These results are analogous to those obtained by the a…