In this paper, we study compact generalized τ-quasi Ricci-harmonic metrics. In the first part, we explore conditions under which generalized τ-quasi Ricci-harmonic metrics are harmonic-Einstein and give some characterization results for it. In the second part, we obtain some rigidity results for compact (τ,ρ)-qu…
Proves harmonicity equivalence on manifold metrics.
problem Harmonicity of metrics on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
method Equivalence of harmonicity on manifold metrics and their lifts.
result Harmonicity of a metric is equivalent to its lifts' harmonicity.
Study harmonicity of metrics in generalized Kantowski-Sachs spacetime.
problem Harmonicity of metrics in generalized Kantowski-Sachs spacetime.
method Considered Sasaki, horizontal and complete lifts of generalized Kantowski-Sachs spacetime metrics to tangent bundle and studied their harmonicity.
result Characterized harmonicity properties of lifted metrics.
The paper examines metrics on foliated manifolds that have special geometric properties.
problem Characterizing metrics on foliated manifolds with specific harmonic properties.
method Examining the properties of bundle-like metrics on foliated manifolds.
result The interior product of basic harmonic forms is basic harmonic under certain conditions.
Study harmonic metrics on Higgs bundles on non-compact Riemann surfaces.
problem Proving the existence and uniqueness of harmonic metrics on Higgs bundles.
method Analyzing Higgs bundles equipped with a non-degenerate symmetric pairing on non-compact Riemann surfaces.
result Proving the existence and uniqueness of compatible harmonic metrics under certain conditions.
Study metric perturbations to make degenerate harmonic forms non-degenerate.
problem Dealing with degenerate harmonic 1-forms in Riemannian geometry.
method Combining analysis of local expansions with Nash-Moser implicit function theorem.
result Proves deformation to nearby non-degenerate Z/2-harmonic 1-forms.
The study of harmonicity for almost contact metric structures was initiated by Vergara-Díaz and Wood and continued by González-Dávila and the present author. By using the intrinsic torsion and some restriction on the type of almost contact metric structure, González-Dávila and the present author have characterised harm…
Study of harmonic maps on 2D simplicial complexes, proving existence and regularity.
problem Existence and regularity of harmonic maps between 2D simplicial complexes.
method Extending previous work, study metrics conformal to flat or ideal hyperbolic, proving existence, uniqueness, and regularity of harmonic maps.
result Existence, uniqueness, and regularity results for harmonic maps between 2D simplicial complexes.
Study on harmonicity of maps between different types of almost contact metric manifolds.
problem Understanding harmonicity of maps between various almost contact metric manifolds.
method Analyzing and deriving new results for different subclasses of almost contact metric manifolds.
result Obtained new results and recovered, generalized, and corrected known results.
Harmonic metrics are established for SO0(n,n)-Higgs bundles on non-compact hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Establishing harmonic metrics for SO0(n,n)-Higgs bundles.
method Using canonical line bundle and holomorphic differentials, the existence and uniqueness of harmonic metrics are proven.
result Existence and uniqueness of harmonic metrics compatible with SO0(n,n) structure on non-compact hyperbolic surfaces.
New p-harmonic and harmonic morphisms found on Lie groups.
problem Constructing explicit p-harmonic and harmonic morphisms on Lie groups.
method Using the method of eigenfamilies to construct explicit complex-valued p-harmonic functions and harmonic morphisms.
result Explicit complex-valued p-harmonic functions and harmonic morphisms constructed on non-compact classical Lie groups.
Study on existence of harmonic metrics for non-Hermitian Yang-Mills bundles.
problem Existence of harmonic metrics in non-Hermitian Yang-Mills bundles.
method Examined compact Kähler manifolds and equivalence to semisimplicity of NHYM bundles.
result Existence of harmonic metrics is equivalent to semisimplicity of NHYM bundles.
New type of harmonic Finsler manifolds created.
problem Creating new types of harmonic Finsler manifolds.
method Defined by a Riemannian metric and a special 1-form.
result Constructed harmonic and asymptotically harmonic Finsler manifolds of (α,β)-type. Pseudo-harmonic morphisms give rise on the domain space to a distribution which admits an almost complex structure compatible with the given Riemannian metric. We shall show that this property, together with the harmonicity, are preserved by a biconformal change of the domain metric. The special case of the pseudo-hori…
In this paper we find a criterion for the Gauss map of an immersed smooth submanifold in some Lie group with left invariant metric to be harmonic. Using the obtained expression we prove some necessary and sufficient conditions for the harmonicity of this map in the case of totally geodesic submanifolds in Lie groups ad…
New metrics produce discrete zero sets for nondegenerate harmonic forms.
problem Creating metrics to produce discrete zero sets for nondegenerate harmonic forms.
method Metric perturbation to produce new nondegenerate harmonic forms with discrete zero sets.
result Existence of metrics producing discrete zero sets for nondegenerate harmonic forms.
Study harmonicity on tangent bundles with a specific metric.
problem Harmonicity of canonical projection and vector field in tangent bundles.
method Investigate harmonicity on tangent bundles with a Berger-type deformed Sasaki metric.
result Characterized conditions for harmonicity of the canonical projection and vector field.
The paper proves a Liouville theorem for specific harmonic maps with free boundary.
problem Analyzing harmonic maps with free boundary conditions.
method Developed Liouville theorem for φ-F-symphonic, φ-F-harmonic, and φ-ΦS,p,ε harmonic maps. result Established Liouville theorem for the specified harmonic maps with free boundary.
The absence of interesting harmonic sections for the Sasaki and Cheeger-Gromoll metrics has led to the consideration of alternatives, for example in the form of a two-parameter family of natural metrics shown to relax existence conditions for harmonicity. This article investigates harmonic Killing vector fields, proves…
Sacks-Uhlenbeck's result on metric spaces expanded.
problem Existence of non-trivial harmonic 2-spheres in metric spaces.
method Developed a metric approach to generalize Sacks-Uhlenbeck's result.
result Generalized Sacks-Uhlenbeck's result to a broader class of compact metric spaces.
Study on harmonic metrics for rank 3 Higgs bundles in Hitchin section.
problem Finding compatible harmonic metrics for rank 3 Higgs bundles in the Hitchin section.
method Defined a symmetric pairing and studied spectral curves as 2-sheeted branched coverings.
result Gave a condition for Higgs bundles on C or C∗ to have compatible harmonic metrics. Study harmonicity of normal almost contact structures on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Understanding harmonicity of normal almost contact structures.
method Analyzing harmonicity through associated sections of a twistor bundle and rewriting equations in terms of curvature tensor.
result Conditions relating harmonicity of almost contact metric and almost complex structures.
We say that a distribution is harmonic if it is harmonic when considered as a section of a Grassmann bundle. We find new examples of harmonic distributions and show nonexistense of harmonic distrubutions on some Riemannian manifolds by two different approaches. Firstly, we lift distributions to the second tangent bundl…
The paper develops harmonic theory on vector bundles with singular metrics and extends results from complex geometry.
problem Analyzing vector bundles with singular Hermitian metrics and positivity.
method Develops harmonic theory and extends results from complex geometry.
result Extends Nakano's vanishing theorem to vector bundles with singular metrics.
Study improves regularity estimates for harmonic maps into ellipsoids.
problem Independence of regularity estimates on harmonic maps with varying target dimensions.
method Analyzes harmonic maps into ellipsoids, uses Palais-Smale sequences, and critical metrics.
result Enhanced regularity estimates for Laplace harmonic eigenmaps.
Develops relative harmonic metrics and deformation theory for Higgs and flat bundles on compact Kähler manifolds.
problem Analyzing harmonic metrics and deformations on Higgs and flat bundles on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Relative analytic theory, Sobolev completions, elliptic regularity, normalized gluing, plotwise smoothness, heat flow, harmonic filtrations, obstruction theory.
result Global smooth harmonic metrics exist for smooth stable Higgs families under certain conditions, and this theory extends to reduced singular parameter spaces.
Estimates for harmonic forms on a 3-Torus, proving their existence.
problem Existence of nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-forms on a 3-Torus.
method Explicit computation of injectivity estimates using the Laplace operator on the 3-Torus and its perturbations.
result Existence of a nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-form on a perturbed metric on the 3-Torus.
Continuous metrics on R^3 with specific properties have non-negative harmonic mass.
problem Proving non-negativity of mass for continuous metrics.
method Defining harmonic mass and using properties of approximating smooth metrics.
result The harmonic mass of continuous metrics is non-negative.
We prove that manifolds admitting a Riemannian metric for which products of harmonic forms are harmonic satisfy strong topological restrictions, some of which are akin to properties of flat manifolds. Others are more subtle, and are related to symplectic geometry and Seiberg-Witten theory. We also prove that a manifold…
We study harmonic sections of a Riemannian vector bundle whose total space is equipped with a 2-parameter family of metrics which includes both the Sasaki and Cheeger-Gromoll metrics. This enables the theory of harmonic unit sections to be extended to bundles with non-zero Euler class.
Study on biharmonic and interpolating sesqui-harmonic vector fields on para-Kähler--Norden manifolds.
problem Investigating higher-order harmonicity in pseudo-Riemannian geometry.
method Deriving first variations of bienergy and interpolating sesqui-energy functionals, characterizing biharmonic and interpolating sesqui-harmonic vector fields.
result Explicit characterizations and examples of vector fields satisfying biharmonic and interpolating sesqui-harmonic conditions.
Harmonic Hermitian structures found on specific Riemannian manifolds.
problem Finding conditions for harmonic Hermitian structures on Riemannian manifolds with skew-torsion.
method Geometric conditions on a four-dimensional Hermitian manifold with a metric connection of totally skew-symmetric torsion.
result The complex structure is a harmonic map into the twistor space under certain conditions.
We introduce and study H-paracontact metric manifolds, that is, paracontact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field ξ is harmonic. We prove that they are characterized by the condition that ξ is a Ricci eigenvector. We then investigate how harmonicity of the Reeb vector field ξ of a paracontact metric manifold…
Unified approach to Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues via n-harmonic maps.
problem Eigenvalue problems on manifolds of arbitrary dimension.
method Unified description using n-harmonic maps. result Uncovering two new features of Steklov eigenvalues.
The paper derives Liouville theorems for various generalized maps on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Deriving Liouville theorems for generalized maps on Riemannian manifolds.
method Using conservation laws and monotonicity formulas, the paper derives Liouville theorems for different types of maps under various conditions.
result The paper establishes Liouville theorems for several types of generalized maps, including φ-F harmonic maps, φ-F symphonic maps, and φ-F-V-harmonic maps. Study proves short-term existence for harmonic maps under evolving metrics.
problem Analyzing harmonic maps under time-dependent metrics.
method Proves short-term existence for harmonic map heat flow coupled with a smooth family of complete metrics.
result Generalizes short-term existence results for harmonic map heat flow.
Study classifies biharmonic and harmonic homomorphisms between specific Lie groups.
problem Classifying biharmonic and harmonic homomorphisms between Riemannian three-dimensional unimodular Lie groups.
method Classification based on left invariant Riemannian metrics.
result Classification of biharmonic and harmonic homomorphisms between specific Lie groups.
A metric is formal if all products of harmonic forms are again harmonic. The existence of a formal metric implies Sullivan formality of the manifold, and hence formal metrics can exist only in presence of a very restricted topology. We show that a warped product metric is formal if and only if the warping function is c…
Study existence of harmonic 1-forms on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
problem Tackles existence of harmonic 1-forms on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
method Uses neural networks to approximate metrics and harmonic 1-forms.
result Suggests existence of harmonic 1-forms on some Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Study shows unique harmonic metrics for certain Higgs bundles over non-compact surfaces.
problem Finding harmonic metrics for specific Higgs bundles.
method Generalized Kalka-Yang's theorem for non-compact hyperbolic surfaces to a coupled system.
result Generically regular nilpotent Higgs bundles admit unique maximal harmonic metrics.
We go further on the study of harmonicity for almost contact metric structures already initiated by Vergara-Diaz and Wood. By using the intrinsic torsion, we characterise harmonic almost contact metric structures in several equivalent ways and show conditions relating harmonicity and classes of almost contact metric st…
Maps between Riemannian manifolds which are submersions on a dense subset, are studied by means of the eigenvalues of the pull-back of the target metrics, the first fundamental form. Expressions for the derivatives of these eigenvalues yield characterizations of harmonicity, totally geodesic maps and biconformal change…
New metrics with special curvature properties are shown to be parallel in certain Lie groups.
problem Characterizing metrics with harmonic curvature in Lie groups.
method Analyzing left invariant metrics on solvable and low-dimensional Lie groups.
result Left invariant metrics with harmonic curvature are Ricci-parallel in solvable Lie groups and Lie groups of dimension ≤6.
Harmonic gauge simplifies geometric analysis of Riemannian metrics.
problem Analyzing the Hilbert-Einstein functional and its stability.
method Developed a harmonic gauge to eliminate divergence terms and induce elliptic structure.
result Positivity of curvature operator implies spectral stability of the functional.
We study harmonic almost contact structures in the context of contact metric manifolds, and an analysis is carried out when such a manifold fibres over an almost Hermitian manifold, as exemplified by the Boothby-Wang fibration. Two types of almost contact metric warped products are also studied, relating their harmonic…
Study on harmonic spinors on specific Lie groups.
problem Existence of left-invariant harmonic spinors on 3D Lie groups.
method Revised spin Dirac operator formula for left-invariant spinors, identified constraints on Lie algebras, and classified metrics with harmonic spinors.
result Identified conditions and metrics for left-invariant harmonic spinors on 3D Lie groups.
Proves regularity of harmonic maps into Teichmüller space.
problem Harmonic maps into Teichmüller space and their singularities.
method Analyzes harmonic maps from Riemannian domains to Teichmüller space with specific conditions.
result If a harmonic map intersects a stratum, it is entirely contained in that stratum.
In this note, we propose an approach to the study of the analogue for unipotent harmonic bundles of Schmid's Nilpotent Orbit Theorem. Using this approach, we construct harmonic metrics on unipotent bundles over quasi-compact Kähler manifolds with carefully controlled asymptotics near the compactifying divisor; such a m…