arXiv research

Study on flat metrics on 3D and 4D manifolds, focusing on topology and algebra.

Topological manifolds can be embedded flatly in high-dimensional Euclidean space and are locally retracts.

Study describes flat metric moduli spaces on 4D manifolds.

Locally flat submanifolds have finite CW complex complements.

This paper completes globally hyperbolic conformally flat spacetimes, proving they are topological manifolds.

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

In this note we study whether specific elements in the second homology of specific simply connected closed $4$-manifolds can be represented by smooth or topologically flat embedded spheres.

In this note we prove some results in flat and differential $K$-theory. The first one is a proof of the compatibility of the differential topological index and the flat topological index by a direct computation. The second one is the explicit isomorphisms between Bunke-Schick differential $K$-theory and Freed-Lott diff…

In this paper we introduce the notion of almost flatness for (stably) relative bundles on a pair of topological spaces and investigate basic properties of it. First, we show that almost flatness of topological and smooth sense are equivalent. This provides a construction of an almost flat stably relative bundle by usin…

The results of the paper concern the topological structure of complete riemannian manifolds with cyclic holonomy groups and low-dimensional orientable complete flat manifolds. We also discuss related results such as the affine classification of orientable complete flat 4-manifolds, an algebraic criterion of an affine e…

Connected sums defined for codimension two locally flat submanifolds in higher dimensions.

Generalizes Thurston's asymmetric metric to flat metrics.

New examples show not all homology fiber bundles are topological.

A flat Klein bottle is visualized using origami.

New gravitational solitons and infinite topological manifolds found.

In this paper we find new examples of Riemannian manifolds with outermost apparent horizons with nonspherical topology, in dimensions four and above. More precisely, for any $n,m\ge1$, we construct asymptotically flat, scalar flat Riemannian manifolds containing smooth outermost minimal hypersurfaces with topology $S^n…

Paper proves a new criterion for time-like geodesics in flat spacetimes.

We construct infinite families of non-simply connected locally conformally flat (LCF) 4-manifolds realizing rich topological types. These manifolds have strictly negative scalar curvature and the underlying topological 4-manifolds do not admit any Einstein metrics. Such 4-manifolds are of particular interest as example…

We focus on the topology and dynamics of minimal sets and Levi-flats in surfaces of general type. Our method relies on the ergodic theory of Riemann surfaces laminations: we use harmonic measures and Lyapunov exponents. Our first result establishes that minimal sets have large Hausdorff dimension when a leaf is simply …

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

Since their introduction by Thurston, measured geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces occur in many contexts. In [Mor], we have introduced a notion of flat laminations on surfaces endowed with a half-translation structure (that is a singular flat surface with holonomy {+/-Id}, similar to geodesic laminations on hy…

Study on scalar-flat Kahler 4-manifolds with a continuous symmetry.

We study rank $1$ flat bundles over solvmanifolds whose cohomologies are non-trivial. By using Hodge theoretical properties for all topologically trivial rank $1$ flat bundles, we represent the structure theorem of Kähler solvmanifolds as extensions of Hasegawa's result and Benson-Gordon's result for nilmanifolds.

The study of tiling homology on flat surfaces, proving impossibility of certain tilings.

It is demonstrated that hypersurfaces with a flat centroaffine metric are governed by a system of nonlinear PDEs known as the equations of associativity of 2-dimensional topological field theory.

Criterion for surfaces in Heisenberg group to be graphs using flat cones.

We give topological conditions to ensure that a noncollapsed almost Ricci-flat 4-manifold admits a Ricci-flat metric. One sufficient condition is that the manifold is spin and has a nonzero A-hat genus. Another condition is that the fundamental group is infinite or, more generally, of sufficiently large cardinality.

Proves positive mass theorem for AF spin manifolds with conical singularities.

In [Mor], we have introduced a notion of flat laminations on surfaces endowed with a flat structure, similar to geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces. Here is a sequel to this article that aims at defining transversal measures on flat laminations similar to transversal measures on hyperbolic laminations, taking i…

For each composite number $n\ne 2^k$, there does not exist a single connected closed $(n+1)$-manifold such that any smooth, simply-connected, closed $n$-manifold can be topologically flat embedded into it. There is a single connected closed 5-manifold $W$ such that any simply-connected, 4-manifold $M$ can be topologica…

We show that the extrinsic diameter of immersed flat tori in the 3-sphere is $π$ under a certain topological condition for the projection of their asymptotic curves with respect to the Hopf fibration.

We give local criteria for smooth non-embeddablity of Levi-flat manifolds. For this purpose, we pose an analogue of Ueda theory on the neighborhood structure of hypersurfaces in complex manifolds with topologically trivial normal bundles.

Simplicial, piecewise-flat discretizations of manifolds provide a clear path towards curvature analysis on discrete geometries and for solutions of PDE's on manifolds of complex topologies. In this manuscript we review and expand on discrete exterior calculus methods using hybrid domains. We then analyze the geometric …

We prove that the topological locally flat slice genus of large torus knots takes up less than three quarters of the ordinary genus. As an application, we derive the best possible linear estimate of the topological slice genus for torus knots with non-maximal signature invariant.

New proof shows no equifocal submanifolds with non-flat sections in certain symmetric spaces.

New approach connects 3D Chern-Simons theory to spectral networks.

New metric reduces Weyl's energy in manifold connected sums.

Geodesic nets on flat spheres are studied using Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

The paper establishes inequalities for $p$-capacitary functions in flat half-spaces.

Anomaly flow studied on flat and non-flat nilmanifolds.

We study "flat knot types" of geodesics on compact surfaces M^2. For every flat knot type and any Riemannian metric g we introduce a Conley index associated with the curve shortening flow on the space of immersed curves on M^2. We conclude existence of closed geodesics with prescribed flat knot types, provided the asso…

In this paper, we study trigonal minimal surfaces in flat tori. First, we show a topological obstruction similar to that of hyperelliptic minimal surfaces. Actually, the genus of trigonal minimal surface in 3-dimensional flat torus must be 1 (mod 3). Next, we construct an explicit example in the higher codimensional ca…

Constructing exponential families from statistical manifolds.

This short survey illustrates the ideas of Teichmuller dynamics. As a model application we consider the asymptotic topology of generic geodesics on a "flat" surface and count closed geodesics and saddle connections. This survey is based on the joint papers with A.Eskin and H.Masur and with M.Kontsevich.

In this note we study the conformal metrics of constant $Q$ curvature on closed locally conformally flat manifolds. We prove that for a closed locally conformally flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 5$ and with Poincarë exponent less than $\frac {n-4}2$, the set of conformal metrics of positive constant $Q$ and positive …

Proves long-time Ricci flow existence and topological rigidity for pinched integral curvature manifolds.

We show that a unipotent vector bundle on a non-Kaehler compact complex manifold does not admit a flat holomorphic connection in general. We also construct examples of topologically trivial stable vector bundle on compact Gauduchon manifold that does not admit any unitary flat connection.

This paper explores how pairs of multicurves can be realized as cylinders on translation surfaces.