arXiv research

New findings show fundamental group is not audible in spherical space forms.

We give a definition of `coherent tangent bundles', which is an intrinsic formulation of wave fronts. In our application of coherent tangent bundles for wave fronts, the first fundamental forms and the third fundamental forms are considered as induced metrics of certain homomorphisms between vector bundles. They satisf…

An expression for the first variation of the area functional of the second fundamental form is given for a hypersurface in a semi-Riemannian space. The concept of the "mean curvature of the second fundamental form" is then introduced. Some characterisations of extrinsic hyperspheres in terms of this curvature are given…

New insights into cohomology of closed 1-forms.

Letting $C$ be a compact $C^ω$-curve embedded in $\boldsymbol R^3$ ($C^ω$ means real analyticity), we consider a $C^ω$-cuspidal edge $f$ along $C$. When $C$ is non-closed, in the authors' previous works, the local existence of three distinct cuspidal edges along $C$ whose first fundamental forms coincide with that of $…

Abstract reviews recent Lagrangian analysis on immersions into higher dimensions.

Study properties of surfaces with nonvanishing third fundamental form.

We investigate some relations concerning the first and the second Beltrami operators corresponding to the fundamental forms I, II, III of a surface in the three-dimensional Euclidean space and we study surfaces which are of finite type in the sense of B.-Y. Chen with respect to the fundamental forms II and III.

We construct, for a homogeneous Lagrangian of arbitrary order in two independent variables, a differential 2-form with the property that it is closed precisely when the Lagrangian is null. This is similar to the property of the `fundamental Lepage equivalent' associated with first-order Lagrangians defined on jets of s…

We first consider immersions on compact manifolds with uniform $L^p$-bounds on the second fundamental form and uniformly bounded volume. We show compactness in arbitrary dimension and codimension, generalizing a classical result of J. Langer. In the second part, this result is used to deduce a localized version, being …

Study variational problems for integral invariants of maps between pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

Improved eigenvalue bounds for minimal hypersurfaces in spheres.

We construct, for a second-order homogeneous Lagrangian in two independent variables, a differential 2-form with the property that it is closed precisely when the Lagrangian is null. This is similar to the property of the 'fundamental Lepage equivalent' associated with first-order Lagrangians defined on jets of section…

We show that it is natural to consider the energy-momentum tensor associated with a spinor field as the second fundamental form of an isommetric immersion. In particular we give a generalization of the warped product construction over a Riemannian manifold leading to this interpretation. Special sections of the spinor …

A generalized Lepage form for second-order Lagrangians is described.

Develops analysis of weak immersions with bounded second fundamental forms in critical Sobolev space.

The classical Cartan's structural equations show in a compact way the relation between a connection and its curvature, and reveals their geometric interpretation in terms of moving frames. In order to study the mathematical properties of singularities, we need to study the geometry of manifolds endowed on the tangent b…

In the second, fourth and fifth authors' previous work, a duality on generic real analytic cuspidal edges in the Euclidean 3-space $\boldsymbol R^3$ preserving their singular set images and first fundamental forms, was given. Here, we call this an `isometric duality'. When the singular set image has no symmetries and d…

The paper proves the behavior of the second fundamental form for Kaehler submanifolds in Euclidean space.

Proves a weak version of Perdomo Conjecture on minimal hypersurfaces.

The paper studies rigidity and stability of minimal submanifolds in hyperbolic space.

The paper characterizes Whitney and contact Whitney spheres in complex and Sasakian space forms.

The study shows that the second fundamental form is intrinsic under certain conditions in space forms.

New tensors help determine if metrics are related to Poincaré-Einstein ones.

We study affine immersions as introduced by Nomizu and Pinkall. We classify those affine immersions of a surface in 4-space which are degenerate and have vanishing cubic form (i.e. parallel second fundamental form). This completes the classification of parallel surfaces of which the first results were obtained in the b…

Estimates the first eigenvalue of a Schrödinger operator on minimal submanifolds.

We study the second fundamental form of semi-isometric CR immersions from strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds into Kähler manifolds. As an application, we give a precise condition for the CR umbilicality of real hypersurfaces, extending an well-known theorem by Webster on the nonexistence of CR umbilical points on gener…

Study shows existence and uniqueness of periodic pseudospherical surfaces from Cauchy problems.

The expression for the variation of the area functional of the second fundamental form of a hypersurface in a Euclidean space involves the so-called "mean curvature of the second fundamental form". Several new characteristic properties of (hyper)spheres, in which the mean curvature of the second fundamental form occurs…

We study 3-manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^5$ with corank $1$ singularities. At the singular point we define the curvature locus using the first and second fundamental forms, which contains all the local second order geometrical information about the manifold.

A beta function for double layers is defined and analyzed.

Study proves higher-order conformal forms don't exist in odd dimensions.

Study Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces in complex space forms.

The paper defines and calculates fourth fundamental form and i-th curvatures for hypersurfaces in 4D Euclidean space.

A setting for global variational geometry on Grassmann fibrations is presented. The integral variational functionals for finite dimensional immersed submanifolds are studied by means of the fundamental Lepage equivalent of a homogeneous Lagrangian, which can be regarded as a generalization of the well-known Hilbert for…

Study finds all conformal minimal immersions of 2-spheres in a complex Grassmann manifold with parallel second fundamental form.

Study on immersions with flat normal bundle in curved spaces.

Let $(M, \partial M)$ be a compact 3-manifold with boundary, which admits a convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on $M$ such that the boundary is smooth and strictly convex. We show that the induced metrics on the boundary are exactly the metrics with curvature $K>-1$, and that the th…

Geometric theory of integration developed in SDG.

Study classifies 3D self-shrinkers with constant second form norm.

In Euclidean geometry, all metric notions (arc length for curves, the first fundamental form for surfaces, etc.) are derived from the Euclidean inner product on tangent vectors, and this inner product is preserved by the full symmetry group of Euclidean space (translations, rotations, and reflections). In equiaffine ge…

Paper classifies special Euclidean hypersurfaces with specific geometric properties.

We establish a method for giving lower bounds for the fundamental tone of elliptic operators in divergence form in terms of the divergence of vector fields. We then apply this method to the $L_{r}$ operator associated to immersed hypersurfaces with locally bounded $(r+1)$-th mean curvature $H_{r+1}$ of the space forms …

In this paper, we study warped product submanifolds of nearly trans-Sasakian manifolds. The non-existence of the warped product semi-slant submanifolds of the type $N_θ\times{_{f}N_T}$ is shown, whereas some characterization and new geometric obstructions are obtained for the warped products of the type $N_T\times{_{f}…

Non-degeneracy of critical points proven for manifold's squared norm of second fundamental form.

In this paper we show that a complete and non-compact surface immersed in the Euclidean space with quadratic extrinsic area growth has finite total curvature provided the surface has tamed second fundamental form and admits total curvature. In such a case we obtain as well a generalized Chern-Osserman inequality. In th…

We compute the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of a geodesic ball in a rotationally symmetric model space in terms of the moment spectrum for the Brownian motion exit times from the ball. This expression implies an estimate as exact as you want for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of a geodesic ball in these rotationally symm…

The object of study of this article is compact surfaces in the three-dimensional hyperbolic space with a positive-definite second fundamental form. It is shown that several conditions on the Gaussian curvature of the second fundamental form can be satisfied only by extrinsic spheres.