We prove that a closed arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold with positive first betti number has virtually infinite first betti number.
Flat open manifolds with full first Betti number have zero curvature.
problem Maximal first Betti number rigidity for open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Proving rigidity for open manifolds with specific curvature conditions and Betti numbers.
result Open manifolds with maximal first Betti number are flat.
Lower Ricci curvature bound prevents first Betti number from dropping more than dimension in collapsing manifolds.
problem Understanding how the first Betti number behaves under manifold collapse with Ricci curvature bounds.
method Analyzing sequences of Riemannian manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds.
result The first Betti number cannot drop more than the dimension in collapsing manifolds.
Study rigidifies torus bundles under first Betti number constraints.
problem Understanding the structure of torus fibrations under first Betti number restrictions.
method Established rigidity results and necessary/sufficient conditions for topological splitting.
result Classification of torus bundles under specific Betti number constraints.
We show that asymptotically the first Betti number, or the arithmetic genus, of a Shimura curve satisfies the Gauss--Bonnet equality. We also show that the first Betti number of a congruence hyperbolic 3--orbifold asymptotically vanishes relatively to hyperbolic volume.
We prove that every finitely presented group with positive first ℓ2-Betti number that virtually surjects onto Z is acylindrically hyperbolic. In particular, this implies acylindrical hyperbolicity of finitely presented residually finite groups with positive first ℓ2-Betti number as well as groups …
We study Kahler manifolds-with-boundary, not necessarily compact, with weakly pseudoconvex boundary, each component of which is compact. If such a manifold K has l≥2 boundary components (possibly l=∞), then it has first betti number at least l−1, and the Levi form of any boundary component is zero. If $K…
Study estimates index of minimal hypersurfaces using Betti numbers.
problem Estimating the index of unstable minimal hypersurfaces.
method Extends previous method using first Betti number.
result Morse index is bounded by first Betti number.
Noncompact RCD spaces with maximal first Betti number are rigid.
problem Characterizing noncompact RCD spaces with maximal first Betti number.
method Analyzing properties of noncompact RCD spaces with maximal first Betti number.
result Spaces with maximal first Betti number are either flat Riemannian manifolds or metric products.
The first Betti number for a lattice in a classifying space for variations of Hodge structures vanishes.
The paper estimates Betti numbers for graphs with specific curvatures, proving bounds and characterizing rigidity.
problem Estimating Betti numbers for graphs with non-negative curvatures.
method Establishing Betti number estimates for graphs with non-negative Ollivier and Bakry-Émery curvatures.
result Upper bounds on the first Betti number for graphs with non-negative curvatures, with characterizations of rigidity.
We give examples of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds with first Betti number 2 and 3 for which no sequence of finite abelian covering spaces increases the first Betti number. For 3-manifolds M with first Betti number 2 we give a characterization in terms of some generalized self-linking numbers of M, for there to exis…
The article studies groups generated by products and wreath products, focusing on first Betti numbers of Morse function orbits.
problem Calculating first Betti numbers of orbit groups generated by products and wreath products.
method Analyzes algebraic properties of specific groups G, proving ranks of center and quotient by commutator subgroup coincide. result The rank of the quotient by commutator subgroup is a first Betti number of the orbit of Morse function.
Found the smallest 4-manifold with a specific Betti number.
problem Finding a 4-manifold with a specific Betti number.
method Provided an explicit example of a cork for a 4-manifold.
result First explicit example of a cork with second Betti number 9.
We give a characterization for the Alexander Polynomials of closed orientable 3-manifolds M with first Betti number 1, as well as some partial results for the characterization problem for M having first Betti number > 1. We first prove an analogue of a theorem of Levine: that the product of an Alexander polynomial of M…
Upper bounds on revised first Betti number and torus stability for RCD spaces.
problem Bounding the revised first Betti number and stability of RCD spaces.
method Proving an upper bound on the rank of the abelianised revised fundamental group and establishing torus stability.
result Spaces with saturated upper bound on revised first Betti number are mGH-close to flat tori.
We give lower bounds on the maximal injectivity radius for a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold M with first Betti number 2, under some additional topological hypotheses. A corollary of the main result is that if M has first Betti number 2 and contains no fibroid surface then its maximal injectivity radius exceeds…
New classification for Vaisman manifolds with specific properties.
problem Classifying Vaisman manifolds with large first Betti number and vanishing first basic Chern class.
method Analyzing properties and using diffeomorphism and complex structure invariance.
result Every Vaisman manifold with large first Betti number and vanishing first basic Chern class is diffeomorphic to a Kodaira-Thurston manifold.
Study on lens spaces bounding 4-manifolds with specific Betti numbers.
problem Which lens spaces can bound 4-manifolds with second Betti number one?
method Construction of specific 4-manifolds and analysis of lens space boundaries.
result Infinite families of lens spaces can bound 4-manifolds with second Betti number one, but not all.
The study finds large Betti numbers in minimal hypersurfaces with positive Ricci curvature.
problem Minimal hypersurfaces with large Betti numbers in manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.
method Constructing sequences of manifolds with embedded minimal hypersurfaces.
result Minimal hypersurfaces have unbounded first Betti numbers.
The paper calculates Betti numbers for special geometric manifolds with curvature constraints.
problem Estimating Betti numbers for nearly G2 and nearly Kähler manifolds with curvature bounds. method Using Weitzenböck formulas and bounds on sectional curvature to estimate Betti numbers.
result Sufficient conditions for vanishing certain Betti numbers based on sectional curvature bounds.
We calculate the Lefschetz number of a Galois automorphism in the cohomology of certain arithmetic congruence groups arising from orders in quaternion algebras over number fields. As an application we give a lower bound for the first Betti number of a class of arithmetically defined hyperbolic 3-manifolds and we deduce…
The paper bounds the first Betti number and discusses properties of Lefschetz fibrations.
problem Understanding the topology of Lefschetz fibrations.
method Analyzes upper bounds for the first Betti number, examines monodromy transitivity, and discusses potential fibrations.
result Upper bounds for the first Betti number and insights into Lefschetz fibration properties.
Positive braids have a signature bound by their Betti number.
problem Bounding the signature of positive braids.
method Using the first Betti number as a lower bound for the signature.
result The signature is bounded from below by one-quarter of the first Betti number.
New method to decompose 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature.
problem Understanding and decomposing 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature.
method 0 and 1-surgeries on topologically PSC 4-orbifolds.
result Every closed, oriented, topologically PSC 4-manifold can be obtained from a specific type of 4-orbifold.
Nonorientable spanning surfaces of periodic knots can have arbitrarily high first Betti number.
problem Periodic knots do not always have nonorientable spanning surfaces of high genus.
method Examples and calculations of nonorientable spanning surfaces of periodic knots.
result The first Betti number of nonorientable spanning surfaces can be arbitrarily large.
The study examines conditions for Haken 3-manifolds and their fundamental groups.
problem Conditions for Haken 3-manifolds and their fundamental groups.
method Conditions and finite-sheeted covers of integral homology three-spheres.
result Lower bound of 4 for first Betti number of certain covers.
Twists agrarian and ℓ2-Betti numbers for locally indicable groups.
problem Understanding ℓ2-Betti numbers of locally indicable groups. method Using generalised agrarian invariants and twisted Alexander-Thurston norms.
result Twisted ℓ2-Betti numbers are equal to usual ℓ2-Betti numbers rescaled by the dimension of the twisting representation. Let M be an n-dimensional Kähler manifold with numerically effective Ricci class. In this note we prove that, if the first Betti number b_1(M)=2n, then M is biholomorphic to the complex torus T^n_C.
In this note, we compute the virtual first Betti numbers of 4-manifolds fibering over S1 with prime fiber. As an application, we show that if such a manifold is symplectic with nonpositive Kodaira dimension, then the fiber itself is a sphere or torus bundle over S1. In a different direction, we prove that if the …
Study of twisted L2-Betti numbers in manifolds.
problem Vanishing of twisted L2-Betti numbers in lower dimensions. method Analysis of infinite cyclic covers and cohomology classes.
result Proves a conjecture connecting twisted L2-Euler characteristic to Thurston norm for certain manifolds. Geometrically, the first Betti number of orbits is linked to the Kronrod-Reeb graph.
problem Understanding the first Betti number of orbits of smooth functions.
method Established a correspondence between the first Betti number of f-orbits and the number of orbits of S′(f,V) on the Kronrod-Reeb graph. result The first Betti number of f-orbits is equal to the number of orbits of S′(f,V) on the Kronrod-Reeb graph. The paper proves a gap theorem for almost non-negatively curved manifolds.
problem Proving a gap theorem for almost non-negatively curved manifolds.
method Two novel technical tools: controlling the spreading of minimal geodesics and Ricci flow smoothing.
result Closed manifolds with bounded geometry are diffeomorphic to torus bundles.
Constructs examples of complex 3D shapes with specific properties.
problem Creating fibered three-manifolds with certain characteristics.
method Builds examples using handlebody bundles and polytopes.
result Examples of fibered three-manifolds with specific properties.
We study the Morse index of self-shrinkers for the mean curvature flow and, more generally, of f-minimal hypersurfaces in a weighted Euclidean space endowed with a convex weight. When the hypersurface is compact, we show that the index is bounded from below by an affine function of its first Betti number. When the fi…
The study bounds growth of Hodge numbers and computes L2-Betti numbers for irregular varieties.
problem Bounding growth of normalized Hodge numbers and computing L2-Betti numbers for irregular varieties. method Analysis of abelian covers, weak generic Nakano vanishing theorem, and convergence of plurigenera.
result Optimal bounds on the growth of normalized Hodge numbers and computation of L2-Betti numbers. Paper defines embolic volume and relates it to Betti number using the covering trick.
problem Relating embolic volume to topological invariants.
method Covering trick from systolic geometry applied to Berger's inequality.
result Relates embolic volume to the first Betti number.
First we recall homology groups of prer Lie superalgebras. Then introducing double weighted chain spaces, we deal with pre Lie superalgebra of multi-vector fields with polynomial coefficients on n-dimensional number space. The bracket is Schouten bracket. We have several results about Euler number and Betti numbers of …
We derive new estimates for the first Betti number of compact Riemannian manifolds. Our approach relies on the Birman-Schwinger principle and Schatten norm estimates for semigroup differences. In contrast to previous works we do not require any a priori ultracontractivity estimates and we provide bounds which explicitl…
Study bounds index of minimal hypersurfaces in curved spaces.
problem Bounding the index of minimal hypersurfaces.
method Proved linear index bound using first Betti number and curvature.
result Index is bounded below by a linear function of first Betti number.
The study proves the existence of many geodesics on complex manifolds.
problem Existence of closed geodesics on manifolds with non-trivial first Betti number.
method Combining Mañé's theorem with a new theorem about minimal geodesics and transverse homoclinic points.
result Proves the existence of infinitely many closed geodesics of arbitrary large length on manifolds with non-trivial first Betti number.
We consider Lorentzian manifolds with parallel light-like vector field V. Being parallel and light-like, the orthogonal complement of V induces a codimension one foliation. Assuming compactness of the leaves and non-negative Ricci curvature on the leaves it is known that the first Betti number is bounded by the dimensi…
Improved lower bound for geodesics on manifolds.
problem Finding a lower bound for the number of minimal geodesics on Riemannian manifolds.
method Refined Bangert's method using the stable norm unit ball on the first homology.
result Quadratic lower bound for the number of minimal geodesics.
The virtual Betti number conjecture states that any hyperbolic three-manifold has a finite cover with positive first Betti number. We show that this would follow if it were known that the derived series of the fundamental group G of a hyperbolic three-manifold satisfies a certain stability property. The stability pro…
Proves almost profinite rigidity for certain free-by-cyclic groups.
problem Profinite rigidity of free-by-cyclic groups.
method Analyzes ranks of fibres, characteristic polynomials, and stretch factors of monodromies.
result Generic free-by-cyclic groups are almost profinitely rigid.
We define for arbitrary modules over a finite von Neumann algebra $\cala$ a dimension taking values in [0,∞] which extends the classical notion of von Neumann dimension for finitely generated projective $\cala$-modules and inherits all its useful properties such as additivity, cofinality and continuity. This all…
The paper computes special values of combinatorial zeta functions to reveal topological properties of manifolds.
problem Counting geodesic paths in triangulations to infer topological invariants.
method Random walks on higher-dimensional skeletons of triangulations.
result Recovery of Betti numbers and linking numbers of manifolds.
It is known that alternative links are pseudoalternating. In 1983 Louis Kauffman conjectured that both classes are identical. In this paper we prove that Kauffman Conjecture holds for those links whose first Betti number is at most 2. However, it is not true in general when this value increases, as we also prove by fin…