arXiv research

The symmetry-rank of a riemannian manifold is by definition the rank of its isometry group. We determine precisely which smooth closed manifolds admit a positively curved metric with maximal symmetry-rank.

Proves a higher rank rigidity theorem for convex real projective manifolds.

New compact ECS manifolds with rank 2 discovered, differing from previous rank 1 examples.

We prove two rigidity results for complete Riemannian three-manifolds of higher rank. Complete three-manifolds have higher spherical rank if an only if they are spherical space forms. Complete finite volume three-manifolds have higher hyperbolic rank if and only if they are hyperbolic space forms.

Researchers describe the metric structure of compact ECS manifolds.

The study establishes uncertainty principles on harmonic manifolds of rank one.

Study on rank-one ECS manifolds, focusing on dilational type.

The study finds a limit on subgroup complexity in hyperbolic 3-manifold groups.

Riemannian gradient descent escapes some spurious critical points on low-rank matrix manifold.

We construct a counterexample to the Rank versus Genus Conjecture, i.e. a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold with rank of its fundamental group smaller than its Heegaard genus. Moreover, we show that the discrepancy between rank and Heegaard genus can be arbitrarily large for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We also constr…

New insights into compact rank-one ECS manifolds, proving they are bundles over circles.

An LCK manifold with potential is a compact quotient of a Kahler manifold $X$ equipped with a positive Kahler potential $f$, such that the monodromy group acts on $X$ by holomorphic homotheties and multiplies $f$ by a character. The LCK rank is the rank of the image of this character, considered as a function from the …

New rigidity results for manifolds with maximal symmetry rank and positive intermediate Ricci curvature.

We complete the classification of rank two affine manifolds in the moduli space of translation surfaces in genus three. Combined with a recent result of Mirzakhani and Wright, this completes the classification of higher rank affine manifolds in genus three.

Study finite group actions on 4-manifolds, finding rank bounds.

Study the rank of Nijenhuis tensor on parallelizable almost complex manifolds.

Study closed manifolds with rank one ray structures, proving completeness or covering properties.

Study manifolds with positive intermediate Ricci curvature and large symmetry rank.

New method reduces computational cost for nonnegative low rank matrix approximation.

Derives smooth homogeneous structures for low-rank tensors.

We say that a Riemannian manifold M has rank at least k if every geodesic in M admits at least k parallel Jacobi fields. The Rank Rigidity Theorem of Ballmann and Burns-Spatzier, later generalized by Eberlein-Heber, states that a complete, irreducible, simply connected Riemannian manifold M of rank at least 2 (the high…

Stochastic gradient descent on manifolds improves low-rank approximation.

The paper encourages Kleinian group thinking for higher rank Lie groups.

Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded above by 1. We say that M has positive spherical rank if along every geodesic one hits a conjugate point at t=π. The following theorem is then proved: If M is a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with upper curvature bound 1 and po…

Finite groups with a hyperelliptic involution have a 2-rank of at most 4.

The paper calculates ranks and bounds for Stiefel manifolds over different fields.

We show that any effective isometric torus action of maximal rank on a compact Riemannian manifold with positive (sectional) curvature and maximal symmetry rank, that is, on a positively curved sphere, lens space, complex or real projective space, is equivariantaly diffeomorphic to a linear action. We show that a compa…

Study on invariant anti-quasi-Sasakian structures on compact manifolds.

Proposes tensor Q-rank for better tensor rank recovery in complex data.

The study proves stabilizing of ascending chains in specific groups.

In this paper we show that a simply connected 8-dimensional manifold M of positive sectional curvature and symmetry rank $\geq 2$ resembles a rank one symmetric space in several ways. For example, the Euler characteristic of M is equal to the Euler characteristic of S^8, H P^2 or C P^4. And if M is rationally elliptic …

We prove that the Euler characteristic of an even-dimensional compact manifold with positive (nonnegative) sectional curvature is positive (nonnegative) provided that the manifold admits an isometric action of a compact Lie group $G$ with principal isotropy group $H$ and cohomogeneity $k$ such that $k - (\rank G - \ran…

We classify closed, simply-connected, non-negatively curved 6-manifolds of almost maximal symmetry rank up to equivariant diffeomorphism.

Equivalent formulations for low-rank matrix optimization are proven.

This paper studies knots in sutured manifolds achieving minimum instanton homology rank.

We construct a geometric decomposition for the convex core of a thick hyperbolic 3-manifold M with bounded rank. Corollaries include upper bounds in terms of rank and injectivity radius on the Heegaard genus of M and on the radius of any embedded ball in the convex core of M.

Let M be a positive quaternionic Kaehler manifold of dimension 4m. If the isometry group Isom(M) has rank at least m/2 +3, then M is isometric to HP^m or Gr_2(C^{m+2}). The lower bound for the rank is optimal if m is even.

Robust PCA is a widely used statistical procedure to recover a underlying low-rank matrix with grossly corrupted observations. This work considers the problem of robust PCA as a nonconvex optimization problem on the manifold of low-rank matrices, and proposes two algorithms (for two versions of retractions) based on ma…

We give a construction of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with rank two fundamental groups and report an experimental search to find such manifolds. Our manifolds are all surface bundles over the circle with genus two surface fiber. For the manifolds so obtained, we then examine whether they are of Heegaard genus two or not. As…

We classify closed, simply-connected non-negatively curved 5-manifolds admitting an (almost) effective, isometric $T^3$ or $T^2$ action. As a direct consequence, we show that for any manifold, of dimensions up to and including 9 under the same hypotheses, the maximal symmetry rank is equal to $[2n/3]$ and the free rank…

We use a local argument to prove if an $r$-dimensional torus acts isometrically and effectively on a connected $n$-dimensional manifold which has positive $k^\mathrm{th}$-intermediate Ricci curvature at some point, then $r \leq \lfloor \frac{n+k}{2} \rfloor$. This symmetry rank bound generalizes those established by Gr…

We consider the problem of constructing a reduced-rank regression model whose coefficient parameter is represented as a singular value decomposition with sparse singular vectors. The traditional estimation procedure for the coefficient parameter often fails when the true rank of the parameter is high. To overcome this …

Affirmative proof that rank 3 3-manifolds have filling links.

A Riemannian manifold $M$ has higher hyperbolic rank if every geodesic has a perpendicular Jacobi field making sectional curvature -1 with the geodesic. If in addition, the sectional curvatures of $M$ lie in the interval $[-1,-\frac14]$, and $M$ is closed, we show that $M$ is a locally symmetric space of rank one. This…

Study critical exponents for L^p-cohomology of higher rank Lie groups and manifolds.

Paper classifies structures on 5D manifolds with specific rank and conditions.

Let $M$ be a compact connected orientable Seifert manifold with hyperbolic orbifold $B_M$, and $f_π: π_1(M)\rightarrowπ_1(M)$ be an automorphism induced by an orientation-reversing homeomorphism $f$ of $M$. We give a bound on the rank of the fixed subgroup of $f_π$, namely, $\rank\fix(f_π)<2\rank π_1(M)$, which is simi…

In this paper, we show that the simplicial volume of Q-rank one locally symmetric spaces covered by the product of R-rank one symmetric spaces is strictly positive.