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The paper constructs metrics with negative curvature on complex manifolds.

The paper explores anti-hyperbolicity for hyperkähler varieties.

Proves non-hyperbolicity of symplectic varieties with specific properties.

We prove that elliptic tubes over properly convex domains of the real projective space are C-convex and complete Kobayashi-hyperbolic. We also study a natural construction of complexification of convex real projective manifolds.

Study of pseudometric properties on domains in Nagano spaces.

Survey on recent breakthrough linking curvature and Kobayashi hyperbolicity.

We establish several characterizations of Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into real reductive Lie groups, in terms of a Cartan projection or Lyapunov projection of the Lie group. Using a properness criterion of Benoist and Kobayashi, we derive applications to proper actions on homogeneous spaces of red…

Using the Donaldson-Auroux theory, we construct complete intersections in complex projective manifolds, which are negatively curved in various ways. In particular, we prove the existence of compact simply connected Kahler manifolds with negative holomorphic bisectional curvature. We also construct hyperbolic hypersurfa…

Study Gromov hyperbolic domains in Minkowski space, proving equivalence to boundary properties.

New examples of hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds proven.

In this paper we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the Kobayashi metric on a convex domain to be Gromov hyperbolic. In particular we show that for convex domains with $C^\infty$ boundary being of finite type in the sense of D'Angelo is equivalent to the Gromov hyperbolicity of the Kobayashi metric. We also …

Demailly's conjecture, which is a consequence of the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture on varieties of general type, states that an algebraically hyperbolic complex projective variety is Kobayashi hyperbolic. Our aim is to provide evidence for Demailly's conjecture by verifying several predictions it makes. We first defi…

Classifies hyperbolic manifolds with specific automorphism groups.

The Fridman function is bounded by the injectivity radius for certain hyperbolic manifolds.

The paper proves Gromov hyperbolicity of certain metrics using isoperimetric inequalities.

The study proves Gromov hyperbolicity for certain complex domains.

In an earlier paper, I defined a new winding number of regular closed curves on complete euclidean/hyperbolic surfaces and showed that this winding number, together with the free homotopy class, determines the regular homotopy class. In this paper, I give a Whitney-type formula for the winding number of non-null-homoto…

Study visibility properties of Kobayashi distance on unbounded domains.

A compact complex manifold is Kobayashi non-hyperbolic if there exists an entire curve on it. Using mirror symmetry we establish that there are (possibly singular) elliptic or rational curves on any Calabi-Yau manifold $X$, whose mirror dual $\check X$ exists and is not "Hodge degenerate", therefore proving that $X$ is…

In this paper we study the global geometry of the Kobayashi metric on domains in complex Euclidean space. We are particularly interested in developing necessary and sufficient conditions for the Kobayashi metric to be Gromov hyperbolic. For general domains, it has been suggested that a non-trivial complex affine disk i…

Characterizes visibility and geodesic loops in complex domains.

In this short note, we prove that a complex Finsler vector bundle with positive Kobayashi curvature must be ample, which partially solves a problem of S. Kobayashi posed in 1975. As applications, a strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler manifold with positive Kobayashi curvature must be biholomorphic to the complex proj…

We determine all connected homogeneous Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $n\ge 2$ whose holomorphic automorphism group has dimension $n^2-3$. This result complements existing classifications for automorphism group dimension $n^2-2$ (which is in some sense critical) and greater.

We prove that every bounded strictly $J$-convex region equipped with the Kobayashi metric is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov. We apply this result to the study of the dynamics of pseudo-holomorphic maps.

We determine all connected homogeneous Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $n\ge 2$ whose holomorphic automorphism group has dimension $n^2-2$. This result complements an existing classification for automorphism group dimension $n^2-1$ and greater obtained without the homogeneity assumption.

We give a necessary complex geometric condition for a bounded smooth convex domain in Cn, endowed with the Kobayashi distance, to be Gromov hyperbolic. More precisely, we prove that if a smooth bounded convex domain contains an analytic disk in its boundary, then the domain is not Gromov hyperbolic for the Kobayashi di…

New metric defined for bounded symmetric domains.

The paper revisits Markowitz's pseudodistance on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

We determine all connected homogeneous Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $n\ge 4$ whose group of holomorphic automorphisms has dimension either $n^2-4$, or $n^2-5$, or $n^2-6$. This paper continues a series of articles that achieve classifications for automorphism group dimension $n^2-3$ and greater.

The paper defines two types of hyperbolicity for complex manifolds and proves related results.

The classical Brody's theorem asserts the equivalence between two notions of hyperbolicity for compact complex spaces, one named after Kobayashi and one expressed in terms of lack of non constant holomorphic entire functions (compactness is only used to prove the harder implication). We extend this theorem to Deligne-M…

Sharp estimates for Finsler metrics in convex domains.

Study connects surface projections in fibered 3-manifolds.

Establishes Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence for nef and big classes.

Study extends Kobayashi's method to non-reductive subgroups for homogeneous spaces.

We deliver examples of non-Gromov hyperbolic tube domains with convex bases (equipped with the Kobayashi distance). This is shown by providing a criterion on non-Gromov hyperbolicity of (non-smooth) domains.The results show the similarity of geometry of the bases of non-Gromov hyperbolic tube domains with the geometry …

Study proves correspondence for special bundles on complex surfaces.

We define the Kobayashi quotient of a complex variety by identifying points with vanishing Kobayashi pseudodistance between them and show that if a compact complex manifold has an automorphism whose order is infinite, then the fibers of this quotient map are nontrivial. We prove that the Kobayashi quotients associated …

We construct a compactification $M^{μss}$ of the Uhlenbeck-Donaldson type for the moduli space of slope stable framed bundles. This is a kind of a moduli space of slope semistable framed sheaves. We show that there exists a projective morphism $γ\colon M^{ss} \to M^{μss}$, where $M^{ss}$ is the moduli space of S-equiva…

Study of alternating links on nonorientable surfaces, extending results to nonorientable projections.

Cooper and Long generalised Epstein and Penner's Euclidean cell decomposition of cusped hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume to non-compact strictly convex projective manifolds of finite volume. We show that Weeks' algorithm to compute this decomposition for a hyperbolic surface generalises to strictly convex projecti…

The paper constructs contact-hyperbolic manifolds with large automorphism groups.

New metric on geodesic currents connects different surface genera.

We give a simple criterion for a Heegaard splitting to yield a Haken manifold. As a consequence, we construct many Haken manifolds, in particular homology spheres, with prescribed properties, namely Heegaard genus, Heegaard distance and Casson invariant. Along the way we give simpler and shorter proofs of the existence…

This article describes a Hitchin-Kobayashi style correspondence for the Vafa-Witten equations on smooth projective surfaces. This is an equivalence between a suitable notion of stability for a pair $(\mathcal{E}, \varphi)$, where $\mathcal{E}$ is a locally-free sheaf over a surface $X$ and $\varphi$ is a section of $\t…

We obtain a complete classification of complex Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $n\ge 2$, for which the dimension of the group of holomorphic automorphisms is equal to $n^2$.

The Fock-Bargmann-Hartogs domain $D_{n,m}$ in $\mathbb{C}^{n+m}$ is defined by the inequality $\|w\|^2<e^{-\|z\|^2},$ where $(z,w)\in \mathbb{C}^n\times \mathbb{C}^m$, which is an unbounded non-hyperbolic domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n+m}$. This paper mainly consists of three parts. Firstly, we give the explicit expression o…

Our goal here is to give a simple proof of the non integrable version of Brody's characterisation theorem.