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Constructs uniformly positive scalar curvature metrics on open manifolds

Classifies 3-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.

Uniformly positive scalar curvature implies a lower bound on injectivity radius.

We show that a space with a finite asymptotic dimension is embeddable in a non-positively curved manifold. Then we prove that if a uniformly contractible manifold X is uniformly embeddable in $\R^n$ or non-positively curved n-dimensional simply connected manifold then $X\times\R^n$ is integrally hyperspherical. If a un…

The paper proves rational connectedness for certain Kähler manifolds.

New examples show non-abelian fundamental groups for positive Ricci curvature manifolds.

We show the existence of uniformly bounded sequences of increasing numbers of orthonormal sections of powers $L^k$ of a positive holomorphic line bundle $L$ on a compact Kähler manifold $M$. In particular, we construct for each positive integer $k$, orthonormal sections $s^k_1,\dots,s^k_{n_k}$ in $H^0(M,L^k)$, $n_k\geβ…

Uniform RC-positivity results for direct image bundles.

Study finds open manifolds without complete metrics with positive scalar curvature.

Vanishing theorems show holomorphic tensor fields on certain Kähler manifolds are trivial.

We prove the nonexistence of stable immersed minimal surfaces uniformly conformally equivalent to the complex plane in any complete orientable four-dimensional Riemannian manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature. We also generalize the same nonexistence result to higher dimensions provided that the ambient …

Study finds topological restrictions on 4-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.

We introduce the concept of hereditarily non uniformly perfect sets, compact sets for which no compact subset is uniformly perfect, and compare them with the following: Hausdorff dimension zero sets, logarithmic capacity zero sets, Lebesgue 2-dimensional measure zero sets, and porous sets. In particular, we give an exa…

In this paper, we prove that if a compact Kähler manifold $X$ has a smooth Hermitian metric $ω$ such that $(T_X,ω)$ is uniformly RC-positive, then $X$ is projective and rationally connected. Conversely, we show that, if a projective manifold $X$ is rationally connected, then the tautological line bundle $\mathscr{O}_{T…

The paper proves stability of positive mass theorem for flat 3-manifolds.

Study eta invariant on non-compact manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

We prove that the moduli space of complete Riemannian metrics of bounded geometry and uniformly positive scalar curvature on an orientable 3-manifold is path-connected. This generalizes the main result of the fourth author [Mar12] in the compact case. The proof uses Ricci flow with surgery as well as arguments involvin…

No 5D aspherical manifolds can have uniformly positive scalar curvature.

Study on positive scalar curvature and its impact on Ricci limit spaces.

Local constancy of index for certain gradient mappings proved.

We formulate extensions of Wilking's Jacobi field splitting theorem to uniformly positive sectional curvature and also to positive and nonnegative intermediate Ricci curvatures.

This article generalizes the work of Ballmann and Światkowski to the case of Reflexive Banach spaces and uniformly convex Busemann spaces, thus giving a new fixed point criterion for groups acting on simplicial complexes.

We analyze the obstruction to metrics of positive scalar curvature within a given bounded distortion class of metrics. This obstruction lives in a non-Hausdorff cohomology group Poincare dual to the uniformly finite homology studied by Block and Weinberger. One of the applications is a converse to their theorem on infi…

The study finds a limit on the volume growth of certain 3-manifolds.

Study on anisotropic curvature flow for noncompact convex hypersurfaces.

For a proper action by a locally compact group $G$ on a manifold $M$ with a $G$-equivariant Spin-structure, we obtain obstructions to the existence of complete $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics with uniformly positive scalar curvature. We focus on the case where $M/G$ is noncompact. The obstructions follow from a Callia…

Proves upper bound on filling radius for manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

We introduce partial secondary invariants associated to complete Riemannian metrics which have uniformly positive scalar curvature outside a prescribed subset on a spin manifold. These can be used to distinguish such Riemannian metrics up to concordance relative to the prescribed subset. We exhibit a general external p…

Compactness proven for manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and uniformly convex boundary.

Sharp volume growth ratio for 3D manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

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…

Study on signatures of positive braids with bounds derived.

We study complete noncompact long time solutions $(M, g(t))$ to the Kähler-Ricci flow with uniformly bounded nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. We will show that when the Ricci curvature is positive and uniformly pinched, i.e. $ R_\ijb \ge cRg_\ijb$ at $(p,t)$ for all $t$ for some $c>0$, then there always e…

Unified flow solves $L^p$ Christoffel-Minkowski problem for $p>1$.

In a 2013 paper, Gromov proves that if smooth Riemannian metrics $g_i$ converge to a smooth Riemannian metric $g$ uniformly, and $g_i$ have scalar curvature uniformly bounded below, then $g$ shares the same scalar curvature lower bound. In some places in the paper, the proofs are only sketched. In this paper we explain…

If a normalized Kähler-Ricci flow $g(t),t\in[0,\infty),$ on a compact Kähler $n$-manifold, $n\geq 3$, of positive first Chern class satisfies $g(t)\in 2πc_{1}(M)$ and has $L^{n}$ curvature operator uniformly bounded, then the curvature operator will also uniformly bounded along the flow. Consequently the flow will conv…

We show that on a Riemann surface lamination locally embedded in $\mathbb{C}^2$, $C^1$ functions (in the sense of the $C^1$ structure of the lamination) are uniform limits of ambient $C^1$ functions, with $L^p$ control on the derivatives along the leaves. This implies that locally in $C^2$, a (1,1) positive closed curr…

Given a non-compact Riemannian manifold M and a submanifold N of codimension q, we will construct under certain assumptions on both M and N a wrong way map in uniformly finite homology. Using an equivariant version of the construction and applying it to universal covers, we will construct wrong way maps in homology of …

Let $Γ$ be a finite index subgroup of the mapping class group $MCG(Σ)$ of a closed orientable surface $Σ$, possibly with punctures. We give a precise condition (in terms of the Nielsen-Thurston decomposition) when an element $g\inΓ$ has positive stable commutator length. In addition, we show that in these situations th…

We study the Ricci flow for initial metrics with positive isotropic curvature (strictly PIC for short). In the first part of this paper, we prove new curvature pinching estimates which ensure that blow-up limits are uniformly PIC in all dimensions. Moreover, in dimension $n \geq 12$, we show that blow-up limits are wea…

Symbolic dynamics for flows in high dimensions, extending previous work.

We prove the following result: Let $(X,g_0)$ be a complete, connected 4-manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature and with bounded geometry. Then there is a finite collection $\mathcal{F}$ of manifolds of the form $\mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{R} /G$, where $G$ is a fixed point free discrete subgroup of the i…

Proves effective linear volume growth for 3-manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

We establish a second order smooth variational principle valid for functions defined on (possibly infinite-dimensional) Riemannian manifolds which are uniformly locally convex and have a strictly positive injectivity radius and bounded sectional curvature.

As shown by Gromov-Lawson and Stolz the only obstruction to the existence of positive scalar curvature metrics on closed simply connected manifolds in dimensions at least five appears on spin manifolds and is given by the non-vanishing of the $α$-genus of Hitchin. When unobstructed we shall realize a positive scalar cu…

The study finds large Betti numbers in minimal hypersurfaces with positive Ricci curvature.

We consider compact convex hypersurfaces contracting by functions of their curvature. Under the mean curvature flow, uniformly convex smooth initial hypersurfaces evolve to remain smooth and uniformly convex, and contract to points after finite time. The same holds if the initial data is only weakly convex or non-smoot…

It is proved that solutions of the complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Kähler manifolds with right hand side in $L^p, p>1$ are uniformly Hölder continuous under the assumption on non-negative orthogonal bisectional curvature.