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Paper proves flat 3-manifolds with positive mass have unique isoperimetric surfaces.

In this note we study constant mean curvature surfaces in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds. We prove that, in an asymptotically flat 3-manifold with positive mass, stable spheres of given constant mean curvature outside a fixed compact subset are unique. Therefore we are able to conclude that there is a unique foliation…

The study finds monotonic properties of harmonic functions on 3-manifolds with a flat end.

Conditions for flat 3-manifolds with diagonal metrics are identified.

4 flat 3-manifolds realized in hyperbolic 4-space.

Geodesic vector fields on flat 3-manifolds are related to contact structures.

In this paper I study the constant mean curvature surface in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with general asymptotics. Under some weak condition, I prove that outside some compact set in the asymptotically flat 3-manifold with positive mass, the foliation of stable spheres of constant mean curvature is unique.

Research shows curves in Walker 3-manifolds can lie in flat cylinders.

New invariant from quantum algebra for 3-manifold bundles.

The paper explores flat extensions of connections and their relation to Chern-Simons invariants.

Alternative proof of flatness for Ricci-pinched 3-manifolds.

Classifies 3-manifolds from cube identifications.

Study the mass of flat 3-manifolds with boundary using specific methods.

An (flat) affine $3$-manifold is a $3$-manifold with an atlas of charts to an affine space ${\mathbf R}^3$ with transition maps in the affine transformation group $Aff({\mathbf R}^3)$. Equivalently an affine $3$-manifold is a $3$-manifold with a flat torsion-free affine connection. We show that a closed affine $3$-mani…

Smoothly embed 3-manifolds in 5-manifolds, simplifying topological to smooth.

Study connects $G_2$-structures to flat connections on compact 3-manifolds.

Proves positive mass theorem for 3-manifolds with a boundary.

In this paper, we consider a closed 3-manifold $M$ with flat conformal structure $C$. We will prove that, if the Yamabe constant of $(M, C)$ is positive, then $(M, C)$ is Kleinian.

Given a group G, we use involutary Hopf G-coalgebras to define a scalar invariant of flat G-bundles over 3-manifolds. When G=1, this invariant equals to the one of 3-manifolds constructed by Kuperberg from involutary Hopf algebras. We give examples which show that this invariant is not trivial.

New invariant from non-acyclic flat connections.

4-manifolds show every flat 3-manifold as cusp sections.

We classify conformally flat Riemannian $3-$manifolds which possesses a free isometric $S^1-$action.

Resurgent analysis reveals full partition function for 3-manifold invariants.

Let $(M, g)$ be an asymptotically flat Riemannian $3$-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature and positive mass. We show that each leaf of the canonical foliation through stable constant mean curvature surfaces of the end of $(M, g)$ is uniquely isoperimetric for the volume it encloses.

The paper proves stability of positive mass theorem for flat 3-manifolds.

We consider the question whether a static potential on an asymptotically flat 3-manifold can have nonempty zero set which extends to the infinity. We prove that this does not occur if the metric is asymptotically Schwarzschild with nonzero mass. If the asymptotic assumption is relaxed to the usual assumption under whic…

Derive monotone quantities for harmonic functions on asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature.

We discuss the rigidity (or lack thereof) imposed by different notions of having an abundance of zero curvature planes on a complete Riemannian 3-manifold. We prove a rank rigidity theorem for complete 3-manifolds, showing that having higher rank is equivalent to having reducible universal covering. We also study 3-man…

This paper gives a new proof of a result of Geoff Mess that the linear holonomy group of a complete flat Lorentz 3-manifold cannot be cocompact in SO(2,1). The proof uses a signed marked Lorentzian length-spectrum invariant developed by G.Margulis, reinterpreted in terms of deformations of hyperbolic surfaces.

Geometrically, spherical 3-manifolds emerge from flat SU(2)-bundles over hyperbolic surfaces.

Compact flat surfaces of homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifolds with isometry group of dimension 4 are classified. Non-existence results for compact constant Gauss curvature surfaces in these 3-manifolds are established.

The study explores how 3-manifolds embed locally flatly in $S^4$.

The paper connects least area surfaces to quasi-normal surfaces in 3-manifolds.

Study shows how tangle moduli spaces relate to boundary surfaces.

The paper proves a quantum modularity conjecture for 3-manifolds.

We provide a new topological interpretation of the symplectic properties of gluing equations for triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, first discovered by Neumann and Zagier. We also extend the symplectic properties to more general gluings of PGL(2,C) flat connections on the boundaries of 3-manifolds with topologic…

A 3-manifold's Ricci pinching condition implies it's flat if it has Euclidean volume growth.

We provide an algebraic description of the Teichmüller space and moduli space of flat metrics on a closed manifold or orbifold and study its boundary, which consists of (isometry classes of) flat orbifolds to which the original object may collapse. It is also shown that every closed flat orbifold can be obtained by col…

There is a well-known problem about isospectrality of Riemannian manifolds: whether isospectral manifolds are isometric. In this work we give an answer to this problem for 3-dimensional compact flat manifolds.

We study in detail the closed flat Riemannian 3-manifolds.

The paper proves the existence of stable spheres in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds.

Study shows contractibility of certain metrics on 3-manifolds.

We describe the compact Lorentzian $3$-manifolds admitting a parallel lightlike vector field. The classification of compact Lorentzian $3$-manifolds admitting non-isometric affine diffeomorphisms follows, together with the complete description of these morphisms. Such a Lorentzian manifold is in some sense an equivaria…

Derives new monotone quantities for p-harmonic functions on asymptotically flat 3-manifolds.

Let $(M,g)$ be an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold containing no closed embedded minimal surfaces. We prove that for every point $p\in M$ there exists a complete properly embedded minimal plane in $M$ containing $p$.

Given a rank 2 hermitian bundle over a 3-manifold that is non-trivial admissible in the sense of Floer, one defines its Casson invariant as half the signed count of its projectively flat connections, suitably perturbed. We show that the 2-divisibility of this integer invariant is controlled in part by a formula involvi…

We study transverse-tracefree (TT)-tensors on conformally flat 3-manifolds $(M,g)$. The Cotton-York tensor linearized at $g$ maps every symmetric tracefree tensor into one which is TT. The question as to whether this is the general solution to the TT-condition is viewed as a cohomological problem within an elliptic com…

The study of stable minimal surfaces in Riemannian $3$-manifolds $(M, g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature has a rich history. In this paper, we prove rigidity of such surfaces when $(M, g)$ is asymptotically flat and has horizon boundary. As a consequence, we obtain an effective version of the positive mass theorem …