arXiv research

Global and local blowups of manifolds are proven equivalent.

Stability of weighted extremal manifolds proven through blowups.

We give conditions under which the blowup of an extremal Kähler manifold along a submanifold of codimension greater than two admits an extremal metric. This generalizes work of Arezzo-Pacard-Singer, who considered blowups in points.

Blowups of Kähler manifolds can inherit extremal metrics.

Kähler blowups can have scalar curvature arbitrarily close to any given metric.

Study curvature of blown-up manifold, finds negative holomorphic sectional curvature.

Functor connects symplectic and contact structures via cutting and blowups.

Study deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation on complex projective space blowup.

We present natural and general ways of building Lie groupoids, by using the classical procedures of blowups and of deformations to the normal cone. Our constructions are seen to recover many known ones involved in index theory. The deformation and blowup groupoids obtained give rise to several extensions of $C^*$-algeb…

Blowups of Kähler manifolds with extremal metrics inherit such metrics under stability conditions.

Walker manifolds of signature (2,2) have been used to provide examples of Osserman and of conformal Osserman manifolds of signature (2,2). We study questions of geodesic completeness and Ricci blowup in this context.

Consider a vector bundle over a Kähler manifold which admits a Hermitian Yang-Mills connection. We show that the pullback bundle on the blowup of the Kähler manifold at a collection of points also admits a Hermitian Yang-Mills connection, for Kähler classes on the blowup which make the exceptional divisors small. Our p…

Characterizes blowups of Dirac structures on manifolds.

We show that the blowup of an extremal Kahler manifold at a relatively stable point in the sense of GIT admits an extremal metric in Kahler classes that make the exceptional divisor sufficiently small, extending a result of Arezzo-Pacard-Singer. We also study the K-polystability of these blowups, sharpening a result of…

Proves uniqueness of blowups for forced mean curvature flow.

Proves invariance of weighted extremal Kähler metrics under smooth blowups.

Study BF invariants using simple type concepts.

We study the blowup behavior at infinity of the normalized Kahler-Ricci flow on a Fano manifold which does not admit Kahler-Einstein metrics. We prove an estimate for the Kahler potential away from a multiplier ideal subscheme, which implies that the volume forms along the flow converge to zero locally uniformly away f…

Study Toda systems blowup masses linked to Weyl groups.

We consider wave maps on $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space. For each dimension $d\geq 8$ we construct a negatively curved, $d$-dimensional target manifold that allows for the existence of a self-similar wave map which provides a stable blowup mechanism for the corresponding Cauchy problem.

This is a continuation of the work of Arezzo-Pacard-Singer and the author on blowups of extremal Kähler manifolds. We prove the conjecture stated in [32], and we relate this result to the K-stability of blown up manifolds. As an application we prove that if a Kähler manifold M of dimension greater than 2 admits a cscK …

Paper analyzes blowup of regularized Jang solutions and constant expansion surfaces.

Ancient ovals are key blowup limits in 3D Ricci flow near singularities.

Modulo trivial exceptions, we show that smoothly nontrivial symplectic sums of symplectic 4-manifolds along surfaces of positive genus are never rational or ruled, and we enumerate each case in which they have Kodaira dimension zero (i.e., are blowups of symplectic 4-manifolds with torsion canonical class). In particul…

Let (X,L) be a polarised manifold. We show that K-stability and asymptotic Chow stability of the blowup of X along a 0-dimensional cycle are closely related to Chow stability of the cycle itself, for polarizations making the exceptional divisors small. This can be used to give (almost) a converse to a result of Arezzo …

Study of gauge theory blowups and Painlevé VI identity.

The paper resolves singular foliations through a series of blowups.

Stable blowup solutions found for supercritical Yang-Mills equations.

In this paper we define a new convergence called "asymptotically conic convergence" in which a smooth family of Riemannian metrics on a fixed compact manifold degenerate to a metric with isolated conic singularity. Our results are: convergence of the spectrum of the geometric Laplacians and uniform convergence of the c…

Stable blowup profile identified for wave maps in all dimensions.

Strict type-II blowup in harmonic map flow is proven to have Hölder continuous body map.

Study on properties of special Kähler metrics and their interplay.

The aim of this paper is to collect some facts about the blowup of Jang's equation. First, we discuss how to construct solutions that blow up at an outermost MOTS. Second, we exclude the possibility that there are extra blowup surfaces in data sets with non-positive mean curvature. Then we investigate the rate of conve…

Study the pullbacks and blowups of Lie algebroids and related structures.

The paper finds asymmetric Type-I blowup solutions for Yang-Mills flow.

Uniqueness of nondegenerate blowups for planar networks shown.

Wave maps with noise can lead to self-similar blowup from arbitrary initial data.

Study proves energy critical heat equation solutions are Type I blowups for n ≥ 7.

Solves complex Monge-Ampère equation for Kähler-Ricci solitons.

We present an analytic proof of the relationship between the Calabi-Futaki invariant for a Kähler manifold relative to a holomorphic vector field with a nondegenerate zero and the corresponding invariant of its blowup at that zero, restricting to the case that zeros on the exceptional divisor are isolated. This extends…

We construct minimal laminations with prescribed singularities on a line segment using perturbation techniques and PDE methods. In addition to the singular set, the rate of curvature blowup is also prescribable in our construction, and we show that all curvature blowup rates between quadratic and quartic arise. Our res…

We study almost-calibrated, $O(n)$-equivariant Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{C}^n$, and prove structural theorems about the Type I and Type II blowups of finite-time singularities. In particular, we prove that any Type I blowup of such a flow must be a special Lagrangian pair of transversely intersecting p…

In this article, we construct infinitley many simply connected, nonsymplectic and pairwise nondiffeomorphic 4-manifolds starting from E(n) and applying the sequence of knot surgery, ordinary blowups and rational blowdown. We also compute the Seiberg-Witten invariants of these manifolds.

We describe a method for recursively calculating Gromov-Witten invariants of all blowups of the projective plane. This recursive formula is different from the recursive formulas due to Göttsche and Pandharipande in the zero genus case, and Caporaso and Harris in the case of no blowups. We use tropical curves and a recu…

Yamabe invariants of certain non-Kähler surfaces are zero.

We show relationships between uniform K-stability and plt blowups of log Fano pairs. We see that it is enough to evaluate certain invariants defined by volume functions for all plt blowups in order to test uniform K-stability of log Fano pairs. We also discuss the uniform K-stability of two log Fano pairs under crepant…

In the paper we formulate and derive the family blowup formula of family Seiberg-Witten invariants. The formula has been used in the enumerative application of counting singular curves on algebraic surfaces. We first give a topological derivation of the formula by using family index theorem. Then we define the algebrai…

We prove the expansion formula for the classical Futaki invariants on the blowup of Kähler surfaces, which explains the balancing condition of Arezzo-Pacard. The relation with Stoppa's result is also discussed.