arXiv research

Study classifies Einstein 4-manifolds with specific curvature properties.

New example shows open subset of anti-self-dual metrics is not closed.

Study on harmonic forms on K3 surfaces converging to a flat 4D orbifold.

Seiberg-Witten invariants match Gromov invariants for self-dual forms.

New framework for Seiberg-Witten map on non-compact 4-manifolds.

Simply connected 4-manifolds with specific Weyl tensor are geodesic balls in space forms.

Study Dolbeault harmonic forms on Lie group quotients with specific structures.

Study shows gap between de Rham and symplectic-Bott-Chern harmonic forms for specific almost-Kähler manifolds.

We will prove a Moser-type theorem for self-dual harmonic 2-forms on closed 4-manifolds, and use it to classify local forms on neighborhoods of singular circles on which the 2-form vanishes. Removing neighborhoods of the circles, we obtain a symplectic manifold with contact boundary - we show that the contact form on e…

New metric found for 4-manifolds with specific properties.

Study shows how to create special metrics on 4-manifolds with certain spheres.

A smooth, compact 4-manifold with a Riemannian metric and b^(2+) > 0 has a non-trivial, closed, self-dual 2-form. If the metric is generic, then the zero set of this form is a disjoint union of circles. On the complement of this zero set, the symplectic form and the metric define an almost complex structure; and the la…

In this note we address the problem of finding Abelian instantons of finite energy on the Euclidean Schwarzschild manifold. This amounts to construct self-dual L^2 harmonic 2-forms on the space. Gibbons found a non-topological L^2 harmonic form in the Taub-NUT metric, leading to Abelian instantons with continuous energ…

Novel singularity models for 4D harmonic forms and spinors from polytopes.

The paper constructs non-convergent solutions to Vafa-Witten equations with specific harmonic 2-form limits.

If $M$ is the underlying smooth oriented $4$-manifold of a Del Pezzo surface, we consider the set of Riemannian metrics $h$ on $M$ such that $W^+(ω, ω)> 0$, where $W^+$ is the self-dual Weyl curvature of $h$, and $ω$ is a non-trivial self-dual harmonic $2$-form on $(M,h)$. While this open region in the space of Riemann…

Study pinched self-dual Weyl curvature in compact 4-manifolds.

The study finds conditions for almost-Kähler 4-manifolds to be Kähler.

Paper characterizes behavior of sequences of solutions to Vafa-Witten equations.

The paper examines four-dimensional manifolds with specific curvature constraints.

We introduce a general notion of twistorial map and classify twistorial harmonic morphisms with one-dimensional fibres from self-dual four-manifolds. Such maps can be characterised as those which pull back Abelian monopoles to self-dual connections. In fact, the constructions involve solving a generalised monopole equa…

Study pinches Weyl curvature on 4-manifolds, proving anti-self-duality.

New estimates are derived concerning the behavior of self-dual hamonic 2-forms on a compact Riemannian 4-manifold with non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariants. Applications include a vanishing theorem for certain Seiberg-Witten invariants on compact 4-manifolds of constant negative sectional curvature.

Let M be a closed oriented 4-manifold, with Riemannian metric g, and a spin^C structure induced by an almost-complex structure ω. Each connection A on the determinant line bundle induces a unique connection \nabla^A, and Dirac operator \D^A on spinor fields. Let σ: W^+ --> Λ^+ be the natural squaring map, taking self-d…

We give a new construction of Ricci-flat self-dual metrics which is a natural extension of the Gibbons--Hawking ansatz. We also give characterisations of both these constructions, and explain how they come from harmonic morphisms.

Extends Taubes's theorem to non-compact manifolds with harmonic forms.

In this paper we continue our study of the fourth order transgression on hyperähler manifolds introduced in the previous paper. We give a local construction for the fourth-order transgression of the Chern character form of an arbitrary vector bundle supplied with a self-dual connection on a four dimensional hyperkähler…

A new spin structure is constructed for a bundle of harmonic forms.

We construct the most general reducible connection that satisfies the self-dual Yang-Mills equations on a simply connected, open subset of flat $\mathbb{R}^4$. We show how all such connections lie in the orbit of the flat connection on $\mathbb{R}^4$ under the action of non-local symmetries of the self-dual Yang-Mills …

The period map for 4-manifolds is dense and surjective under certain conditions.

We study finite action anti-self-dual Yang-Mills connections on the multi-Taub-NUT space. We establish the curvature and the harmonic spinors decay rates and compute the index of the associated Dirac operator. This is the first in a series of papers proving the completeness of the bow construction of instantons on mult…

A self-dual harmonic 2-form on a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold is symplectic where it does not vanish. Furthermore, away from the form's zero set, the metric with the 2-form give a compatible almost complex structure and thus pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties. Such a subvariety is said to have finite energy when the …

New construction of self-dual black holes using quadrics.

We establish a $C^{1,α}$ compactness theorem for the metrics with bounded self - dual Weyl tensor and Scalar curvature. The key step is to estimate the $C^{1,α}$ harmonic radius, where we use the blow up analysis as in \cite{Anderson90}. The result is motivated by, and may be applied to the Calabi flow on complex surfa…

Classifies instantons on a specific gravitational instanton and computes partition functions.

Study rigidifies geometry of electrostatic systems with specific tensor properties.

We investigate a new 8-dimensional Riemannian geometry defined by a generic closed and coclosed 3-form with stabiliser PSU(3), and which arises as a critical point of Hitchin's variational principle. We give a Riemannian characterisation of this structure in terms of invariant spinor-valued 1-forms, which are harmonic …

Develops SDYM equations on self-dual backgrounds using integration techniques.

The main result of this paper states that a symplectic s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming a canonical contact structure on the boundary). Based on this theorem, we conjecture that a smooth s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is smoothly a product if its universal cover is smooth…

New method solves 'googly problem' for Schwarzschild black holes.

Following an idea of Dadok, Harvey and Lawson, we apply the triality property of SO(8) to study the comass of certain self-dual 4-forms on R^8. In particular, we prove that the Cayley 4-form has comass 1 and that any self-dual 4-form realizing the maximal Wirtinger ratio is SO(8)-conjugate to the Cayley 4-form. We also…

Functional for Spin(7) forms defined on compact manifolds.

Weak harmonic Weyl metrics found on all 4D closed manifolds.

A new formalism simplifies SO(3) Yang-Mills theory connections.

New duality found between harmonic maps and self-dual solutions.

Let $X$ be a closed, four-dimensional, oriented, smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric, $g$, let $G$ be a compact Lie group, and $P$ be a principal $G$ bundle over $X$. D. Groisser and T. Parker (1987, 1989) and S. K. Donaldson (1990) conjectured that the moduli space of $g$-anti-self-dual connections on $P$, endowe…

Several results on existence and convergence of the Yang-Mills flow in dimension four are given. We show that a singularity modeled on an instanton cannot form within finite time. Given low initial self-dual energy, we then study convergence of the flow at infinite time. If an Uhlenbeck limit is anti-self-dual and has …

We describe two extensions of the notion of a self-dual connection in a vector bundle over a manifold M from dim M=4 to higher dimensions. The first extension, Omega-self-duality, is based on the existence of an appropriate 4-form Omega on the Riemannian manifold M and yields solutions of the Yang-Mills equations. The …