arXiv research

The Yamabe flow on flat manifolds converges to a scalar flat metric.

Study on harmonic forms on K3 surfaces converging to a flat 4D orbifold.

Study shows tori metrics converging to flat under specific conditions.

The study proves leafwise flat forms for Gauduchon metrics on Inoue-Bombieri surfaces.

A natural question in mathematical general relativity is how the ADM mass behaves as a functional on the space of asymptotically flat 3-manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature. In previous results, lower semicontinuity has been established by the first-named author for pointed $C^2$ convergence, and more generally by…

The paper examines conditions for Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of metric quotients and provides examples of conic-flat surfaces.

Surface diffusion and mean curvature flows converge to stable critical sets in flat tori.

The study computes indicial roots and metric convergence orders for Ricci-flat conifolds.

We show that for a noncollapsing sequence of closed, connected, oriented Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature uniformly bounded from below and diameter uniformly bounded above, Gromov-Hausdorff convergence essentially agrees with intrinsic flat convergence.

We prove under suitable hypotheses that convergence of integral varifolds implies convergence of associated mod 2 flat chains and subsequential convergence of associated integer-multiplicity rectifiable currents. The convergence results imply restrictions on the kinds of singularities that can occur in mean curvature f…

New manifolds with negative curvature limit to one with negative curvature.

Investigates stability of piecewise flat Ricci flow using analysis and simulations.

The paper proves stability of the positive mass theorem using intrinsic flat convergence.

Enhances deep learning by boosting generalization and convergence.

Herein we present open problems and survey examples and theorems concerning sequences of Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower bounds on scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Examples of Gromov and of Ilmanen which naturally ought to have certain limit spaces do not converge with respect to smooth or Gromov-Hausdo…

Here we explore a variety of properties of intrinsic flat convergence. We introduce the sliced filling volume and interval sliced filling volume and explore the relationship between these notions, the tetrahedral property and the disappearance of points under intrinsic flat convergence. We prove two new Gromov-Hausdorf…

Study introduces fractional mass concept for surfaces, proving its convergence.

Study on metric spaces with properties (ETR), (LBD) and their convergence.

We prove a curvature pinching result for the Ricci flow on asymptotically flat manifolds: if an asymptotically flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ has scale-invariant integral norm of curvature sufficiently pinched relative to the inverse of its Sobolev constant, then the Ricci flow starting from this manifold exists …

The paper proves stability of manifolds with boundary under volume and distance constraints.

Study shows how flat flow solutions in 2D converge to disks.

Study shows convergence of volumes on manifolds with boundary under area constraints.

Study shows smooth convergence of round surfaces in flat space-time models.

Using a recently developed piecewise flat method, numerical evolutions of the Ricci flow are computed for a number of manifolds, using a number of different mesh types, and shown to converge to the expected smooth behaviour as the mesh resolution is increased. The manifolds were chosen to have varying degrees of homoge…

Study of Calabi-Yau manifold degenerations near complex structure limits.

Study proves uniqueness of asymptotic limits for specific manifolds.

We investigate the Kahler-Ricci flow on holomorphic fiber spaces whose generic fiber is a Calabi-Yau manifold. We establish uniform metric convergence to a metric on the base, away from the singular fibers, and show that the rescaled metrics on the fibers converge to Ricci-flat Kahler metrics. This strengthens previous…

Zeroth-order methods favor flat minima in machine learning.

The paper examines convergence of currents and forms under smooth diffeomorphisms.

This is an intuitive survey of extrinsic and intrinsic notions of convergence of manifolds complete with pictures of key examples and a discussion of the properties associated with each notion. We begin with a description of three extrinsic notions which have been applied to study sequences of submanifolds in Euclidean…

Paper classifies solutions to oriented associativity equations on flat F-manifolds.

We prove that, starting at an initial metric $g(0)=e^{2u_0}(dx^2+dy^2)$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with bounded scalar curvature and bounded $u_0$, the Ricci flow $\partial_t g(t)=-R_{g(t)}g(t)$ converges to a flat metric on $\mathbb{R}^2$.

Paper studies convergence of nonnegative scalar curvature metrics to a specific limit space.

We present a rigorous homogenization theorem for distributed dislocations. We construct a sequence of locally-flat Riemannian manifolds with dislocation-type singularities. We show that this sequence converges, as the dislocations become denser, to a flat non-singular Weitzenböck manifold, i.e. a flat manifold endowed …

Study semicontinuity of capacity in non-smooth spaces using intrinsic flat convergence.

Discrete forms of the scalar, sectional and Ricci curvatures are constructed on simplicial piecewise flat triangulations of smooth manifolds, depending directly on the simplicial structure and a choice of dual tessellation. This is done by integrating over volumes which include appropriate samplings of hinges for each …

We study a conformal flow for compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than two with boundary. Convergence to a scalar-flat metric with constant mean curvature on the boundary is established in dimensions up to seven, and in any dimensions if the manifold is spin or if it satisfies a generic condition.

Study shows convergence of certain metrics to flat torus.

We study the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem using the Intrinsic Flat Distance. In particular we consider the class of complete asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and no interior closed minimal surfaces whose boundaries are either outermost minimal h…

We study a fully nonlinear flow for conformal metrics. The long-time existence and the sequential convergence of flow are established for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application, we solve the $\sk$-Yamabe problem for locally conformal flat manifolds when $k \neq n/2$.

Study of mean curvature flow in de Sitter space, showing convergence to flat slicing.

Flow preserves volume on flat torus, converging to stable set.

Recall that Federer-Fleming defined the notion of flat convergence of submanifolds of Euclidean space to solve the Plateau problem. Here we prove the upper semicontinuity of Neumann eigenvalues of the submanifolds when they converge in the flat sense without losing volume. With an additional condition on the boundaries…

We study the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem (PMT) and the Riemannian Penrose Inequality (RPI) in the case where a region of an asymptotically flat manifold $M^3$ can be foliated by a smooth solution of Inverse Mean Curvature Flow (IMCF) which is uniformly controlled. We consider a sequence of regions of asympto…

We use the theory of rectifiable metric spaces to define a Dirichlet energy of Lipschitz functions defined on the support of integral currents. This energy is obtained by integration of the square of the norm of the tangential derivative, or equivalently of the approximate local dilatation, of the Lipschitz functions. …

We relate $L^p$ convergence of metric tensors or volume convergence to a given smooth metric to Intrinsic Flat and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence for sequences of Riemannian manifolds. We present many examples of sequences of conformal metrics which demonstrate that these notions of convergence do not agree in general ev…

Flow smooths Chern-Ricci-flat metrics on Hermitian manifolds.

Study heat flow on collapsing K3 surfaces, handling conic singularities.