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Study maximal antipodal sets in exceptional symmetric spaces.

No exceptional orbits found in Hilbert spaces actions.

Combining M-algebra and hyperbolic involutory algebra extends exceptional tangent spaces to 11 dimensions.

Classifies totally geodesic submanifolds in exceptional symmetric spaces.

Researchers solved a 30-year-old conjecture about exceptional symmetric spaces.

A classification is given of the exceptional $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric spaces $G/K$ by A.Kollross, where $G$ is an exceptional compact Lie group or $S\!pin(8)$, and moreover the structure of $K$ is determined as Lie algebra. In the present article, we give a pair of commuting involutive automorphisms…

Study of exceptional algebroids in relation to type IIB superstrings.

Unified framework for exceptional and generalised geometry, and Poisson-Lie duality.

Catenoids in de Sitter $3$-space $S^3_1$ belong to a certain class of space-like constant mean curvature one surfaces. In a previous work, the authors classified such catenoids, and found that two different classes of countably many exceptional elliptic catenoids are not realized as closed subsets in $S^3_1$. Here we s…

We show that there are no tight nonholomorphic maps from irreducible domains into exceptional codomains, the only exception being the already known tight nonholomorphic maps from the Poincare disc. This follows up on previous work by the first author where this was shown for classical codomains.

The notion of (Z/2Z) x (Z/2Z)-symmetric spaces is a generalization of classical symmetric spaces, where the group Z/2Z is replaced by (Z/2Z) x (Z/2Z). In this article, a classification is given of the (Z/2Z) x (Z/2Z)-symmetric spaces G/K where G is an exceptional compact Lie group or Spin(8), complementing recent resul…

No standard compact Clifford-Klein forms found for exceptional Lie groups.

For the simply connected compact exceptional Lie group $E_8$, we determine the structure of subgroup $(E_8)^{σ, σ'}$ of $E_8$ which is the intersection $(E_8)^σ\cap (E_8)^{σ'}$. Then the space $E_8/(E_8)^{σ, σ'}$ is the exceptional $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$- symmetric space of type EVIII-VIII-VIII, and that we…

A new quantum relation connects exceptional Lie algebras and knots.

A knot in the 3-sphere is called an L--space knot if it admits a nontrivial Dehn surgery yielding an L--space. Like torus knots and Berge knots, many L--space knots admit also a Seifert fibered surgery. We give a concrete example of a hyperbolic, L-space knot which has no exceptional surgeries, in particular, no Seifer…

Study on $G_{2}$ actions on symmetric spaces, focusing on orbit properties.

We prove that compact quaternionic-Kähler manifolds of positive scalar curvature admit no almost complex structure, even in the weak sense, except for the complex Grassmannians $Gr_2(C^{n+2})$. We also prove that irreducible inner symmetric spaces $M^{4n}$ of compact type are not weakly complex, except for spheres and …

The compact simply connected Riemannian 4-symmetric spaces were classified by J.A. Jim{é}nez. As homogeneous manifolds, these spaces are of the $G/H$, where $G$ is a connected compact simple Lie group with an automorphism $\tildeγ$ of oder 4 and $H$ is a fixed points subgroup $G^γ$ of $G$. In the present article, for t…

We describe simply connected compact exceptional simple Lie groups in very elementary way. We first construct all simply connected compact exceptional Lie groups G concretely. Next, we find all involutive automorphisms of G, and determine the group structures of the fixed points subgroup. They correspond to the classif…

Unified solution to M-theory problems using super-exceptional geometry.

The hidden M-algebra is integrated into a super-Lie group, allowing for compactification of extra dimensions.

We find braid positive presentations for most L-space knots, except one, and explore related knot properties.

Study of exceptional algebroids in type IIA string theory.

Baker showed that 10 of the 12 classes of Berge knots are obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5-chain link. In this article we enumerate all hyperbolic knots in S^3 obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5 chain link that realize the maximal known distances between slopes corresponding to exceptional (le…

Study complete space-like stationary surfaces with graphical Gauss image, estimating exceptional values and classifying degenerate surfaces.

We show that the horofunction boundary of Teichmüller space with Thurston's Lipschitz metric is the same as the Thurston boundary. We use this to determine the isometry group of the Lipschitz metric, apart from in some exceptional cases. We also show that the Teichmüller spaces of different surfaces, when endowed with …

Elliptic curves and braid groups linked through configuration spaces.

The main goal of this paper is to reveal the geometric meaning of the maximal number of exceptional values of Gauss maps for several classes of immersed surfaces in space forms, for example, complete minimal surfaces in the Euclidean three-space, weakly complete improper affine spheres in the affine three-space and wea…

Proves rational slopes characterize knot 5_2, except for integers.

We perform a systematic study of the image of the Gauss map for complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean four-space. In particular, we give a geometric interpretation of the maximal number of exceptional values of the Gauss map of a complete orientable minimal surface in Euclidean four-space. We also provide optimal resu…

Let J be the exceptional Jordan algebra over R and J^C its complexification. Then the simply connected compact exceptional Lie group F_4 acts on J and F_4 has three orbit types which are F_4/F_4, F_4/Spin(9), F_4/Spin(8). Similarly the simply connected compact exceptional Lie group E_6 acts on J^C and E_6 has five orbi…

We show that there exist infinitely many pairs of distinct knots in the 3-sphere such that each pair can yield homeomorphic lens spaces by the same Dehn surgery. Moreover, each knot of the pair can be chosen to be a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot, except that both cannot be satellite knots simultaneo…

If a hyperbolic 3-manifold admits an exceptional Dehn filling, then the length of the slope of that Dehn filling is known to be at most six. However, the bound of six appears to be sharp only in the toroidal case. In this paper, we investigate slope lengths of other exceptional fillings. We construct hyperbolic 3-manif…

R. Lutz introduced the notion of $\varGamma$-symmetric space as a generalization of the classical notion of symmetric space in 1981, where $\varGamma$ is a finite abelian group. In the present article, as $\varGamma=\varmathbb{Z}_3 \times \varmathbb{Z}_3$, we give the automorphisms $\tildeσ_3, \tildeτ_3$ of order $3$ o…

Sphere bundles over 4-manifolds are trivial after looping, except for two cases.

This is a survey on the construction of a canonical or "octonionic Kähler" 8-form, representing one of the generators of the cohomology of the four Cayley-Rosenfeld projective planes. The construction, in terms of the associated even Clifford structures, draws a parallel with that of the quaternion Kähler 4-form. We po…

We prove local existence of complex-valued harmonic morphisms from any Riemannian homogeneous spaces of positive curvature, except the Berger space Sp(2)/SU(2).

Study automorphisms and subgroups of exceptional Lie group E8.

We give an explicit classification of maximal antipodal sets in any irreducible compact symmetric space except for spin groups and half spin groups, and some quotient symmetric spaces associated to them.

Y-algebroids generalize symmetry structures for string/M-theory compactifications.

We prove an equidistribution result for totally geodesic submanifolds in a compact locally symmetric space. In the case of Hermitian locally symmetric spaces, this gives a convergence theorem for currents of integration along totally geodesic subvarieties. As a corollary, we obtain that on a complex surface which is a …

We give a construction of $G_2$ and $Spin(7)$ instantons on exceptional holonomy manifolds constructed by Bryant and Salamon, by using an ansatz of spherical symmetry coming from the manifolds being the total spaces of rank-4 vector bundles. In the $G_2$ case, we show that, in the asymptotically conical model, the conn…

The study shows instability in certain Riemannian manifolds with real Killing spinors.

In this paper we prove the conjecture of Alexander and Currier that states, except for covering maps of equidistant surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space, a complete, nonnegatively curved immersed hypersurface in hyperbolic space is necessarily properly embedded.

Complete classification of sub-Riemannian spaces with step and rank three.

The elliptic 3-manifolds are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, that is, those that have finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) Smale Conjecture asserts that for any elliptic 3-manifold M, the inclusion from the isometry group of M to the diffeomorphism group of M…

Classifies exceptional Legendrian realizations of Hopf link connected sums.

Let S be a non-exceptional oriented surface of finite type. We classify all Radon measures on the space of measured geodesic laminations for S which are invariant under the mapping class group.