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We show that there exist closed manifolds with arbitrarily small transcendental simplicial volumes. Moreover, we exhibit an explicit uncountable family of (transcendental) real numbers that are not realised as the simplicial volume of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Nicolaus Heuer , Clara Loeh

A. Derdzinki [D] gave examples of Riemannian metrics with harmonic curvature and non parallel Ricci tensor on some compact manifolds $(M,g]$ . We examine their existence as well as their number wich naturally depends on the geometry of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Raouf Chouikha

We study pseudo-Riemanniasn manifolds $(M,g)$ with transitive group of conformal transformation which is essential, i.e. does not preserves any metric conformal to $g$. All such manifolds of Lorentz signature with non exact isotropy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Dmitri V. Alekseevsky

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This paper is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. We prove that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Sergio Almaraz

A peeling theorem for the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds is presented. We obtain it by generalizing a proof from the four dimensional case. We derive a generic behavior, discuss interesting subcases and retrieve the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Selim Amar

We discuss the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is done by characterizing algebraically special Weyl tensors by means of the existence of aligned null vectors of various orders of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Coley , R. Milson , V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

This paper deals with the subject of infinitesimal variations of Euclidean submanifolds with arbitrary dimension and codimension. The main goal is to establish a Fundamental theorem for these geometric objects. Similar to the theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 M. Dajczer , M. I. Jimenez

We show that there exist infinite-dimensional quasi-flats in the compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of the Liouville domain, with respect to the spectral norm, if and only if the symplectic cohomology of this Liouville…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Qi Feng , Jun Zhang

Exploiting the special features of four-dimensional Riemannian geometry, we derive topological and rigidity results for hypersurfaces immersed in space forms of dimension 5. First, we provide a complete description of the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Davide Dameno , Aaron J. Tyrrell

In this note we classify compact 4-manifolds with harmonic Weyl tensor and nonnegative biorthogonal curvature

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Ezio Araujo Costa

We continue our study of ends of non-compact manifolds, with a focus on the inward tameness condition. For manifolds with compact boundary, inward tameness, has significant implications. For example, such manifolds have stable homology at…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Craig R. Guilbault , Frederick C. Tinsley

On four-dimensional closed manifolds we introduce a class of canonical Riemannian metrics, that we call weak harmonic Weyl metrics, defined as critical points in the conformal class of a quadratic functional involving the norm of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

Restrictions are obtained on the topology of a compact divergence-free null hypersurface in a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose Ricci tensor is zero or satisfies some weaker conditions. This is done by showing that each null…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Alan D. Rendall

A Riemannian manifold is called Weyl homogeneous, if its Weyl tensors at any two points are "the same", up to a positive multiple. A Weyl homogeneous manifold is modeled on a homogeneous space $M_0$, if its Weyl tensor at every point is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Y. Nikolayevsky

It is shown that there are infinitely many compact orientable smooth 4-manifolds which do not admit Einstein metrics, but nevertheless satisfy the strict Hitchin-Thorpe inequality 2 chi > 3 |tau|. The examples in question arise as…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Claude LeBrun

We describe the local structure of Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature which admit a maximum number, in a well-defined sense, of local warped-product decompositions, and at the same time their Ricci tensor has, at some point, only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Andrzej Derdzinski , Paolo Piccione

This paper investigates the question of which smooth compact 4-manifolds admit Riemannian metrics that minimize the L2-norm of the curvature tensor. Metrics with this property are called OPTIMAL; Einstein metrics and scalar-flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claude LeBrun

We study the question of integrability of a compatible almost complex structure on a compact symplectic 4-manifold, under various natural assumptions on the curvature of the associated almost Kahler metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vestislav Apostolov , Tedi Draghici

Any pseudo-Hermitian or para-Hermitian manifold of dimension 4 admits a unique Kaehler-Weyl structure; this structure is locally conformally Kaehler if and only if the alternating Ricci tensor vanishes. The alternating Ricci tensor takes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-20 M. Brozos-Vazquez , E. Garcia-Rio , P. Gilkey , R. Vazquez-Lorenzo

We study the geometry of compact Lorentzian manifolds that admit a somewhere timelike Killing vector field, and whose isometry group has infinitely many connected components. Up to a finite cover, such manifolds are products (or amalgamated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Paolo Piccione , Abdelghani Zeghib