arXiv research

Integrability of mean curvature near degenerate points in Heisenberg group.

The study shows that nonpositively curved 4-manifolds with zero Euler characteristic have degenerating Ricci curvature.

Conservation laws vanishing along characteristic directions of a given system of PDEs are known as characteristic conservation laws, or characteristic integrals. In 2D, they play an important role in the theory of Darboux-integrable equations. In this paper we discuss characteristic integrals in 3D and demonstrate that…

The paper proves rigidity for warped product spaces with degenerate ends.

Unified interpretation of sub-Riemannian Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces in 3D contact manifolds.

There is a remarkable type of field of two-planes special to four dimensions known as an Engel distributions. They are the only stable regular distributions besides the contact, quasi-contact and line fields. If an arbitrary two-plane field on a four-manifold is slightly perturbed then it will be Engel at generic point…

Classifies 3D non-degenerate left-symmetric algebras.

We complete the remaining cases of the conjecture predicting existence of infinitely many rational curves on K3 surfaces in characteristic zero, prove almost all cases in positive characteristic and improve the proofs of the previously known cases. To achieve this, we introduce two new techniques in the deformation the…

We study a generalization of constant Gauss curvature -1 surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, based on Lorentzian harmonic maps, that we call pseudospherical frontals. We analyze the singularities of these surfaces, dividing them into those of characteristic and non-characteristic type. We give methods for constructing all n…

The paper finds at least four prime closed characteristics on star-shaped hypersurfaces in 8D space.

Study oscillatory integrals with degenerate singular points in multivariable phase functions.

Researchers prove smoothings for surfaces with triple points.

We consider the Cauchy problem for a second order quasi-linear partial differential equation with an admissible parabolic degeneration such that the given functions described the initial conditions are defined on a closed interval. We study also a variant of the inverse problem of the Cauchy problem and prove that the …

Paper studies invariant distributions of bi-Hamiltonian structures.

We study the effect of two types of degeneration of the Riemannian metric on the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator on surfaces. In both cases we prove that the first eigenvalue of the round sphere is an optimal asymptotic upper bound. The first type of degeneration is concentration of the density to a point with…

Study higher genus polylogarithms under Riemann surface degenerations.

In this paper, we study the well-posedness of boundary value problems for a special class of degenerate elliptic equations coming from geometry. Such problems is intimately tied to rigidity problem arising in infinitesimal isometric deformation, The characteristic form of this class of equations is changing its signs i…

A mixed type surface is a connected regular surface in a Lorentzian 3-manifold with non-empty spacelike and timelike point sets. The induced metric of a mixed type surface is a signature-changing metric, and their lightlike points may be regarded as singular points of such metrics. In this paper, we investigate the beh…

Degenerations of rank-two bundles on threefolds lead to isolated point singularities, with rigidity and bubbling properties.

We investigate the combinatorial Ricci flow on a surface of nonpositive Euler characteristic when the necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of the combinatorial Ricci flow is not valid. This observation addresses one of questions raised by B. Chow and F. Luo.

Let M be a compact surface of negative Euler characteristic and let C(M) be the deformation space of convex real projective structures on M. For every choice of pants decomposition for M, there is a well known parameterization of C(M) known as the Goldman parameterization. In this paper, we study how some geometric pro…

Paper extends previous result on hypersurfaces with degenerate light-like points.

Constructing solutions to the heterotic G$_2$ system on specific types of manifolds.

The paper studies critical points in overparameterized neural networks, identifying a star locus and degenerate critical points.

A connected regular surface in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space is called a mixed type surface if the spacelike, timelike and lightlike point sets are all non-empty. Lightlike points on mixed type surfaces may be regarded as singular points of the induced metrics. In this paper, we introduce the L-Gauss map around non-degener…

We study non-degenerate CR geometries of hypersurface type that are symmetric in the sense that, at each point, there is a CR transformation reversing the CR distribution at that point. We show that such geometries are either flat or homogeneous. We show that non-flat non-degenerate symmetric CR geometries of hypersurf…

Analytic torsion behavior studied for degenerating manifolds with equivariant bundles.

Consider a constant mean curvature immersion $F:U(\subset \boldsymbol{R}^n)\to M$ into an arbitrary Lorentzian $(n+1)$-manifold $M$. A point $o\in U$ is called a light-like point if the first fundamental form $ds^2$ of $F$ degenerates at $o$. We denote by $B_F$ the determinant function of the symmetric matrix associate…

Consider degenerations of Abelian differentials with prescribed number and multiplicity of zeros and poles. Motivated by the theory of limit linear series, we define twisted canonical divisors on pointed nodal curves to study degenerate differentials, give dimension bounds for their moduli spaces, and establish smootha…

Study bifurcations of curves on surfaces in Minkowski 3-space.

New insights into black hole horizons from asymptotic expansions.

We show that non-degenerate hyperquadrics in R^{n+2} admit no skew branes. Stated more traditionally, a compact codimension-one immersed submanifold of a non-degenerate hyperquadric of euclidean space must have parallel tangent spaces at two distinct points. Similar results have been proven by others, but (except for e…

We formulate and prove an analog of the Hopf Index Theorem for Riemannian foliations. We compute the basic Euler characteristic of a closed Riemannian manifold as a sum of indices of a non-degenerate basic vector field at critical leaf closures. The primary tool used to establish this result is an adaptation to foliati…

Takamura established a theory on splitting families of degenerations of complex curves. He introduced a powerful method for constructing a splitting family, called a barking family, in which there appear not only a singular fiber over the origin but also singular fibers over other points, called subordinate fibers. In …

New proof of Khovanov-Rozansky homology base point independence in finite characteristic.

Study on hypersurfaces with minimized distance between rulings.

In this paper, we study the collapsing behaviour of negative Kähler-Einstein metrics along degenerations of canonical polarized manifolds. We prove that for a toroidal degeneration of canonical polarized manifolds with the total space $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial, the Kähler-Einstein metrics on fibers collapse to a lower dim…

We prove that the level sets of a real C^s function of two variables near a non-degenerate critical point are of class C^[s/2] and apply this to the study of planar sections of surfaces close to the singular section by the tangent plane at hyperbolic points or elliptic points, and in particular at umbilic points. We al…

We study singularities of Gauss maps of fronts and give characterizations of types of singularities of Gauss maps by geometric properties of fronts which are related to behavior of bounded principal curvatures. Moreover, we investigate relation between a kind of boundedness of Gaussian curvatures near cuspidal edges an…

We say that a fixed point of a diffeomorphism is non-degenerate if 1 is not an eigenvalue of the linearization at the fixed point. We use pseudo-holomorphic curves techniques to prove the following: the inclusion map $i: \text{Diff} ^{1} (S ^{2} ) \to \text{Diff} (S^2)$ vanishes on all homotopy groups, where $\text{D…

Study characterizes points on projective surfaces using a cubic form.

This paper continues the previous studies in two papers of Huang-Yin [HY3-4] on the flattening problem of a CR singular point of real codimension two sitting in a submanifold in ${\mathbb C}^{n+1}$ with $n+1\ge 3$, whose CR points are non-minimal. Partially based on the geometric approach initiated in [HY3] and a forma…

In this note we study the localization of Futaki-Morita integrals at isolated degenerate zeros by giving a streamlined exposition in the spirit of Bott and implement the localization procedure for a holomorphic vector field on $CP^n$ with a maximally degenerate zero, giving an essentially unique formula for the Futaki-…

Smooth functions on manifolds with degenerate singular submanifolds

A new invariant captures geometric features of circle embeddings.

The paper finds geodesics in Kähler potentials with no degeneration.

We show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, i.e. for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups witho…

Study non-degenerate singular points of Poisson-Nijenhuis structures.