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In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski $3-$ space has degenerate planar normal sections. Then we study lightlike surfaces with non-degenerate planar normal sections a…

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

An n-dimensional submanifold X of a projective space P^N (C) is called tangentially degenerate if the rank of its Gauss mapping γ: X ---> G (n, N) satisfies 0 < rank γ< n. The authors systematically study the geometry of tangentially degenerate submanifolds of a projective space $P^N (\mathbf{C})$. By means of the foca…

Study of polygon degeneration to segments in complex space.

Study of symplectic manifolds degenerating into singular spaces.

Develops new Poisson structures for moduli spaces.

Study degenerate Bianchi transformations for pseudo-spherical submanifolds in 5D space.

The paper discovers new ways Riemann surfaces can degenerate.

Study real semi-stable degenerations and describe real loci via blow-ups.

Study on hypersurfaces with minimized distance between rulings.

Study higher rank inner products and their tilings to describe tori degenerations.

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…

In this note, we extend the notion of a Monge hypersurface from its roots in semi-Euclidean space to more general spaces. For the degenerate case, the geometry of these structures is studied using the Bejancu-Duggal method of screen distributions.

Study on Calabi-Yau metrics and their degenerations.

The dual variety X* for a smooth n-dimensional variety X of the projective space P^N is the set of tangent hyperplanes to X. In the general case, the variety X* is a hypersurface in the dual space (P^N)*. If dim X* < N - 1, then the variety X is called dually degenerate. The authors refine these definitions for a varie…

We prove a rigidity of the lightcone in Minkowski space. It is essentially the unique space endowed with a degenerate Riemannian metric, of lightlike type, and supporting an isometric non-proper action of a semi-simple group.

We study Yamabe metrics, and the moduli space of Yamabe metrics, on an arbitrary closed 3-manifold M. The main focus is on the boundary behavior of the moduli space, i.e. the behavior of degenerating sequences of unit volume Yamabe metrics on M. It is proved that such degenerations, when non-trivial in a certain sense,…

This paper is the first arising from our project announced in math.AG/0211094, "Affine manifolds, log structures, and mirror symmetry." We aim to study mirror symmetry by studying the log structures of Illusie-Fontaine and Kato on degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds. The basic idea is that one can associate to certai…

Let $M$ be a hyperkaehler manifold, and $η$ a closed, positive (1,1)-form which is degenerate everywhere on $M$. We associate to $η$ a family of complex structures on $M$, called a degenerate twistor family, and parametrized by a complex line. When $η$ is a pullback of a Kaehler form under a Lagrangian fibration $L$, a…

In this paper the notion of an M-th order invariant bilinear differential pairing is introduced and a formal definition is given. If the manifold has an AHS structure, then various first order pairings are constructed. This yields a classification of all first order invariant bilinear differential pairings on homogeneo…

Study degenerations of Kähler-Einstein metrics on surfaces.

We study one parameter degenerations of complex projective manifolds by introducing certain type of Hodge metrics coming from the pluricanonical forms. We show that degenerations with at most canonical singularities are all in the finite distance boundary of moduli spaces. We also propose the converse to be true in the…

In this Thesis, I investigate how Fano manifolds equipped with a Kahler-Einstein metric can degenerate as metric spaces (in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology) and some of the relations of this question with Algebraic Geometry, in particular in the direction of the study of moduli spaces and their compactifications.

Maximal regularity for nonuniformly parabolic problems with normal degeneration.

Study optimal degenerations of Fano threefolds, proving K-polystability and Kähler-Ricci solitons.

The paper finds geodesics in Kähler potentials with no degeneration.

The paper adapts metrics to anti-de Sitter structures, characterizing their degeneracies.

Study on solutions of Yamabe-type equations on projective spaces.

The paper connects hyperpolygon spaces to Higgs bundle moduli spaces via degenerations.

Lecture notes on using non-Archimedean geometry for complex variety degenerations.

In this paper we explore the connection between special degenerations of algebraic manifolds and geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics. We provide a new and general geometric construction of nontrivial solutions for the geodesic equation. We show how to associate to any special nontrivial degeneration a geodesic of …

Study Lie algebras with complex structures, focusing on degenerations and deformations.

Stability of Morse index for harmonic maps on degenerating surfaces analyzed.

The paper classifies degenerate almost complex surfaces in a nearly Kähler space.

We discuss contact invariant structures on the space of solutions of a third-order ordinary differential equation. Associated to any third-order differential equation modulo contact transformations, Chern introduced a degenerate conformal Lorentzian metric on the space of 2-jets of functions of one variable. When the W…

Develops analogs of character varieties for algebraic correspondences, proving boundedness and compactifications.

Motivated by applications to probability and mathematical finance, we consider a parabolic partial differential equation on a half-space whose coefficients are suitably Holder continuous and allowed to grow linearly in the spatial variable and which become degenerate along the boundary of the half-space. We establish e…

Introduces new limit spaces for degenerating Calabi-Yau families.

The paper studies hanging chains and surfaces in degenerate geometries.

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…

The article resolves complex structures in transport twistor spaces, proving a Newlander-Nirenberg theorem.

We study the limiting behavior of eigenfunctions/eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a family of Riemannian metrics that degenerates on a hypersurface. Our results generalize earlier work concerning the degeneration of hyperbolic surfaces.

We study isometric cohomogeneity one actions on the (n+1)-dimensional Minkowski space up to orbit-equivalence. We give examples of isometric cohomogeneity one actions on the Minkowski space whose orbit spaces are non-Hausdorff. We show that there exist isometric cohomogeneity one actions on the Minkowski space which ar…

We describe typical degenerations of quadratic differentials thus describing ``generic cusps'' of the moduli space of meromorphic quadratic differentials with at most simple poles. The part of the boundary of the moduli space which does not arise from ``generic'' degenerations is often negligible in problems involving …

In this paper we deal with curves with degeneration degree two in pseudo-Euclidean spaces of index two. We characterize Bertrand curves. We show a correspondence between the evolute of a null curve and the involute of a certain spacelike curve in the $6-$dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index two. Also we characte…

Using results from our companion article [arXiv:1112.4824v2] on a Schauder approach to existence of solutions to a degenerate-parabolic partial differential equation, we solve three intertwined problems, motivated by probability theory and mathematical finance, concerning degenerate diffusion processes. We show that th…

Using the parameterisation of the deformation space of GHMC anti-de Sitter structures on $S \times \mathbb{R}$ by the cotangent bundle of the Teichmüller space of $S$, we study how some geometric quantities, such as the Lorentzian Hausdorff dimension of the limit set, the width of the convex core and the Hölder exponen…

We study an infinite dimensional ASD moduli space over the cylinder. Our main result is the formula of its local mean dimension. A key ingredient of the argument is the notion of non-degenerate ASD connections. We develop its deformation theory and show that there exist sufficiently many non-degenerate ASD connections …