arXiv research

Study shows some contractible complexes can't have certain immersions.

A complex disproves a curvature property.

The paper studies a relative version of non-positive immersion for 2-complex pairs and shows conditions under which a transitivity law holds.

Splitting theorem for non-positively curved Lorentzian spaces.

We develop the structure theory of full isometry groups of locally compact non-positively curved metric spaces. Amongst the discussed themes are de Rham decompositions, normal subgroup structure and characterising properties of symmetric spaces and Bruhat--Tits buildings. Applications to discrete groups and further dev…

We study homogenous Weyl connections with non-positive sectional curvatures. The Cartesian product $\mathbb S^1 \times M$ carries canonical families of Weyl connections with such a property, for any Riemmanian manifold $M$. We prove that if a homogenous Weyl connection on a manifold, modeled on a unimodular Lie group, …

The paper proves rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics.

Paper finds non-positive Weyl connections on Lie groups, confirming a conjecture.

We prove two injectivity theorems for the geodesic ray transform on two-dimensional, complete, simply connected Riemannian manifolds with non-positive Gaussian curvature, also known as Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. The first theorem is concerned with bounded non-positive curvature and the second with decaying non-positive…

We characterize symmetric spaces of non-positive curvature by the equality case of general inequalities between geometric quantities

Conformal invariants of manifolds of non-positive scalar curvature are studied in association with growth in volume and fundamental group.

Study on solvable Lie groups with specific Weyl connections.

Using the Perron method, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces of prescribed special Lagrangian curvature with prescribed boundary inside complete Riemannian manifolds of non-positive curvature.

The study shows that ergodic measures are not generic on non-positively curved manifolds.

Groups with specific curvature have a regular language of geodesics.

Study on weakly G-slim complexes and non-positive immersions for group presentations.

4-manifolds with non-positive curvature are essentially Euclidean.

Survey on harmonic maps in non-smooth spaces, focusing on rigidity.

We prove distance bounds for graphs possessing positive Bakry-Émery curvature apart from an exceptional set, where the curvature is allowed to be non-positive. If the set of non-positively curved vertices is finite, then the graph admits an explicit upper bound for the diameter. Otherwise, the graph is a subset of the …

We give a Pontryagin-Thom-Szucs type construction for non-positive codimensional singular maps, and obtain results about cobordism and bordism groups of -1 codimensional stable maps with prescribed singular fibers.

Survey on non-positively curved cube complexes and geometric group theory.

Study finds criteria for surfaces with specific curvature properties.

It is shown that if a $C^2$ surface $M\subset\mathbb R^3$ has negative curvature on the complement of a point $q\in M$, then the $\mathbb Z/2$-valued Poincaré-Hopf index at $q$ of either distribution of principal directions on $M-\{q\}$ is non-positive. Conversely, any non-positive half-integer arises in this fashion. …

In this paper by using left invariant Riemannian metrics on some 3-dimensional Lie groups we construct some complete non-Riemannian Berwald spaces of non-positive flag curvature and several families of geodesically complete locally Minkowskian spaces of zero constant flag curvature.

We prove that any metric of non-positive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov on a compact surface can be isometrically embedded as a convex spacelike Cauchy surface in a flat spacetime of dimension (2+1). The proof follows from polyhedral approximation.

We study biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds with finite energy and finite bi-energy. We show that if the domain is complete and the target of non-positive curvature, then such a map is harmonic. We then give applications to isometric immersions and horizontally conformal submersions.

Study shows non-compact convex hulls in certain metric spaces.

We show that for an isometric immersion of a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive curvature, the norm of the mean curvature vector field is square integrable, then it is minimal. This is a partial affirmative answer of the B. Y. Chen's conjecture.

Harmonic maps study on surfaces with non-positive curvature.

Totally geodesic submanifolds in product spaces imply special curvature properties.

We extend to any simply connected Kähler manifold with non-positive sectional curvature some conditions for interpolation in $\mathbb{C}$ and in the unit disk given by Berndtsson, Ortega-Cerdà and Seip. The main tool is a comparison theorem for the Hessian in Kähler geometry due to Greene, Wu and Siu, Yau.

Paper proves curvature estimate for curved spaces.

In this survey article, we present some panorama of groups acting on metric spaces of non-positive curvature. We introduce the main examples and their rigidity properties , we show the links between algebraic or analytic properties of the group and geometric properties of the space. Finally, we conclude with a few conj…

In this paper two metric properties on geodesic length spaces are introduced by means of the metric projection, studying their validity on Alexandrov and Busemann NPC spaces. In particular, we prove that both properties characterize the non-positivity of the sectional curvature on Riemannian manifolds. Further results …

In this note we prove that any closed graph manifold admitting a metric of non-positive sectional curvature (NPC-metric) has a finite cover, which is fibered over the circle. An explicit criterion to have a finite cover, which is fibered over the circle, is presented for the graph manifolds of certain class.

Improved spectral projection estimates on manifolds of non-positive curvature.

No conformal product structures on compact manifolds with constant curvature.

We study harmonic maps from Riemannian manifolds into arbitrary non-positively curved and CAT(-1) metric spaces. First we discuss the domain variation formula with special emphasis on the error terms. Expanding higher order terms of this and other formulas in terms of curvature, we prove an analogue of the Eels-Sampson…

In this work, we show that along a particular choice of Hermitian curvature flow, the non-positivity of Chern-Ricci curvature will be preserved if the initial metric has non-positive bisectional curvature. As an application, we show that the canonical line bundle of a compact Hermitian manifold with nonpositive bisecti…

In this paper, we show that steady or shrinking complete gradient Yamabe solitons with finite total scalar curvature and non-positive Ricci curvature are Ricci flat. Moreover, under certain pinching condition for Ricci curvature, we show that steady or shrinking complete gradient Yamabe solitons with finite total scala…

Free finite group actions on non-positively curved 3-manifolds

In this paper, we show that every harmonic map from a compact Kähler manifold with uniformly RC-positive curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature is constant. In particular, there is no non-constant harmonic map from a compact Kähler manifold with positive holomorphic sectional c…

Solves Calabi-Yau equation on complex manifolds with non-positive astheno-Ricci curvature.

Busemann points are sparse in Teichmüller spaces.

The study extends isoperimetric inequalities to non-positive curvature spaces.

In the biharmonic submanifolds theory there is a generalized Chen's conjecture which states that biharmonic submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature must be minimal. This conjecture turned out false by a counter example of Y. L. Ou and L. Tang in \cite{Ou-Ta}. However it remains inter…

The paper shows conditions for vanishing of certain topological invariants on specific types of manifolds.

A triharmonic map is a critical point of the 3-energy in the space of smooth maps between two Riemannian manifolds. We study a triharmonic isometric immersion into a space form of non-positively constant curvature. We show that if the domain is complete and both the 4-enegy and the L^4-norm of the tension field are fin…