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New metric on geodesic currents connects different surface genera.

Study shows convergence of Fubini-Study currents to equilibrium metrics on Kähler manifolds.

We relate Ambrosio-Kirchheim metric currents to Alberti representations and Weaver derivations. In particular, given a metric current $T$, we show that if the module $\mathscr{X}(\|T\|)$ of Weaver derivations is finitely generated, then $T$ can be represented in terms of derivations; this extends previous results of Wi…

We examine the theory of metric currents of Ambrosio and Kirchheim in the setting of spaces admitting differentiable structures in the sense of Cheeger and Keith. We prove that metric forms which vanish in the sense of Cheeger on a set must also vanish when paired with currents concentrated along that set. From this we…

Introduces Lie group actions in smoothing processes for currents and spaces with curvature.

Recently, a new embedding/compactness theorem for integral currents in a sequence of metric spaces has been established by the second author. We present a version of this result for locally integral currents in a sequence of pointed metric spaces. To this end we introduce another variant of the Ambrosio--Kirchheim theo…

New definition of metric current yields Finsler geometry volume densities.

The study defines Finsler metrics on special surfaces and constructs geodesic currents.

The study shows how certain singular Kähler metrics can define Kähler currents and RCD spaces.

The paper shows how Sobolev maps affect currents in metric spaces.

Tian's theorem applies to Moishezon spaces with singular metrics.

Proves rigidity for maps between manifolds using degree theory and current developments.

It is well known that in compact local Lipschitz neighborhood retracts in Euclidean space flat convergence for integer rectifiable currents amounts just to weak convergence. In the present paper we extend this result to integral currents in complete metric spaces admitting a local cone type inequality. These include in…

Paper proves Hermitian-Yang-Mills metrics for stable Kähler bundles.

Geodesic currents on hyperbolic surfaces have dual spaces that are metric trees.

For any geodesic current we associated a quasi-metric space. For a subclass of geodesic currents, called filling, it defines a metric and we study the critical exponent associated to this space. We show that is is equal to the exponential growth rate of the intersection function for closed curves.

Geodesic currents on surfaces have comparable metrics in thick regions.

We extend Thurston's metric to projective filling currents, embedding Teichmüller space into the larger space.

We take the novel perspective to view data not as a probability distribution but rather as a current. Primarily studied in the field of geometric measure theory, $k$-currents are continuous linear functionals acting on compactly supported smooth differential forms and can be understood as a generalized notion of orient…

We characterize the existence of a locally conformally Kähler metric on a compact complex manifold in terms of currents, adapting the celebrated result of Harvey and Lawson for Kähler metrics.

We prove that every one-dimensional real Ambrosio-Kirchheim normal current in a Polish (i.e. complete separable metric) space can be naturally represented as an integral of simpler currents associated to Lipschitz curves. As a consequence a representation of every such current with zero boundary (i.e. a cycle) as an in…

By Federer and Fleming there exist at least one mass-minimizing normal current in every real-valued homology class of a Riemannian manifold. However the regularity of the mass-minimizing currents and their distributions may generally be quite complicated. In this paper we shall study how to construct nice metrics so th…

Geodesic currents in strongly hyperbolic spaces are dense.

Unique tangent cones found for Kahler-Einstein metrics on singular varieties.

We quantitatively relate the Patterson-Sullivant currents and generic stretching factors for free group automorphisms to the asymmetric Lipschitz metric on Outer space and to Guirardel's intersection number.

New findings on Kähler-Einstein currents dominating Kähler forms on compact spaces.

Study of random sections on complex spaces converging to equilibrium metrics.

We prove that every acyclic normal one-dimensional real Ambrosio-Kirchheim current in a Polish (i.e. complete separable metric) space can be decomposed in curves, thus generalizing the analogous classical result proven by S. Smirnov in Euclidean space setting. The same assertion is true for every complete metric space …

New insights into currents of Hitchin representations with combinatorial restrictions.

We show that normalized currents of integration along the common zeros of random $m$-tuples of sections of powers of $m$ singular Hermitian big line bundles on a compact Kähler manifold distribute asymptotically to the wedge product of the curvature currents of the metrics. If the Hermitian metrics are Hölder with sing…

The paper studies how certain currents can induce metric structures from Kähler-Ricci flows.

Constructs a new type of metric for elliptic surfaces.

Study confirms conjecture on extremal length of hyperbolic metrics.

Geodesics and boundaries found for metric structures on hyperbolic groups.

Let B be a fiber bundle with compact fiber F over a compact Riemannian n-manifold M. There is a natural Riemannian metric on the total space B consistent with the metric on M. With respect to that metric, the volume of a rectifiable section s:M--> B is the mass of the image s(M) as a rectifiable n-current in B. Theorem…

The paper proves existence and partial regularity for Legendrian area-minimizing currents.

The purpose of this article is to prove existence of mass minimizing integral currents with prescribed possibly non-compact boundary in all dual Banach spaces and furthermore in certain spaces without linear structure, such as injective metric spaces and Hadamard spaces. We furthermore prove a weak$^*$-compactness theo…

Characterizes rigid and flexible hyperbolic cone metrics and billiards.

Maximal representations are studied using tree embeddings and geodesic currents.

We construct new examples of normal (metric) currents using inverse systems of cube complexes. For any $N\ge 2$ we provide examples of $N$-dimensional normal currents whose associated vector fields are simple, and whose supports are purely $2$-unrectifiable and have Nagata dimension $N$. We show that in $l^\infty$ norm…

Kähler-Ricci flow smooths out positive closed currents with divisorial singularities

Let L be a holomorphic line bundle with a positively curved singular Hermitian metric over a complex manifold X. One can define naturally the sequence of Fubini-Study currents associated to the space of square integrable holomorphic sections of the p-th tensor powers of L. Assuming that the singular set of the metric i…

A quick overview is provided on the current development of the WP metric geometry.

Maps between certain Lipschitz manifolds are isometries if they preserve volume.

In this article we construct a canonical Kähler-Einstein current on a LC (log canonical) pairs of log general type as the limit of a sequence of canonical Kähler-Einstein currents on KLT(Kawamata log terminal) pairs of log general type. We call the volume form associated with the canonical Kähler-Einstein current the c…

Let $L$ be a holomorphic line bundle over a compact Kähler manifold $X$ endowed with a singular Hermitian metric $h$ with curvature current $c_1(L,h)\geq0$. In certain cases when the wedge product $c_1(L,h)^k$ is a well defined current for some positive integer $k\leq\dim X$, we prove that $c_1(L,h)^k$ can be approxima…

Let $p:X\to Y$ be an holomorphic surjective map between compact Kähler manifolds and let $D$ be an effective divisor on $X$ with generically simple normal crossings support and coefficients in $(0,1)$. Provided that the adjoint canonical bundle $K_{X_y}+D_y$ of the generic fiber is ample, we show that the current obtai…

This is a survey article, based on the author's lectures in the 2015 Current developments in Mathematics meeting; published in "Current developments in Mathematics". Version 2, references corrected and added.