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In this paper we study cobordism categories consisting of manifolds which are endowed with geometric structure. Examples of such geometric structures include symplectic structures, flat connections on principal bundles, and complex…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-06-11 David Ayala

Given a general pseudo-Anosov flow in a three manifold, the orbit space of the lifted flow to the universal cover is homeomorphic to an open disk. We compactify this orbit space with an ideal circle boundary. If there are no perfect fits…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Sergio R. Fenley

We prove that the boundary of an orbit space or more generally a leaf space of a singular Riemannian foliation is an Alexandrov space in its intrinsic metric, and that its lower curvature bound is that of the leaf space. A rigidity theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Karsten Grove , Adam Moreno , Peter Petersen

In this article, we investigate the geometry of compact quasi-Einstein manifolds with boundary. We show that a $3$-dimensional simply connected compact quasi-Einstein manifold with boundary and constant scalar curvature is isometric, up to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Johnatan Costa , Ernani Ribeiro , Detang Zhou

Let $M$ be a topological $G_2$-manifold. We prove that the space of infinitesimal associative deformations of a compact associative submanifold $Y$ with boundary in a coassociative submanifold $X$ is the solution space of an elliptic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Damien Gayet , Frederik Witt

Stiefel manifolds arise naturally as spaces of injective operators and as total spaces of principal bundles over Grassmannians. While their finite-dimensional topology is governed by Bott periodicity, the infinite-dimensional theory…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Nizar El Idrissi

This paper is a survey on the structure of manifolds with a lower Ricci curvature bound.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guofang Wei

Singularities play an important role in General Relativity and have been shown to be an inherent feature of most physically reasonable space-times. Despite this, there are many aspects of singularities that are not qualitatively or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Richard A. Barry , Susan M. Scott

Herein we present open problems and survey examples and theorems concerning sequences of Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower bounds on scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Examples of Gromov and of Ilmanen which naturally ought to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Christina Sormani

We study Riemannian manifolds with boundary under a lower Bakry-E'mery Ricci curvature bound. In our weighted setting, we prove several rigidity theorems for such manifolds with boundary. We conclude a rigidity theorem for the inscribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Yohei Sakurai

This article is based on a lecture at the Journal of Differential Geometry Conference, Harvard 2017. We discuss closed and torsion-free $G_{2}$-structures on a 7-manifold with boundary, with prescribed $3$-form on the boundary. Much of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Simon Donaldson

This paper presents some finiteness results for the number of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces of given genus g in a compact 3-manifold with torus boundary. In the case of hyperbolic 3-manifolds we obtain uniform quadratic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Shicheng Wang

In this paper, we discuss how a Gromov-Hausdorff-like distance function over the space of all isometric classes of compact $C^k$-Riemannian manifolds should be defined in the aspect of the Riemannan submanifold theory, where $k\geq 1$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Naoyuki Koike

A theorem of Anderson and Bando-Kasue-Nakajima from 1989 states that to compactify the set of normalized Einstein metrics with a lower bound on the volume and an upper bound on the diameter in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense, one has to add…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Tristan Ozuch

We establish curvature obstruction theorems for manifolds with boundary. Our main theorems show that, for dimensions up to 7, a topologically nontrivial compact manifold with boundary cannot have a metric of positive $m$-intermediate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Jingche Chen , Han Hong

This paper concerns the study of the homotopy type of the ordered configuration space for manifolds with boundary and as an application we will study the collision free motion planning problem on manifolds with boundary.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata

The goal of this article is to motivate and describe how Gromov-Witten theory can and has provided tools to understand the moduli space of curves. For example, ideas and methods from Gromov-Witten theory have led to both conjectures and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Vakil

We show that a noncompact manifold with bounded sectional curvature, whose ends are sufficiently Gromov-Hausdorff close to rays, has a finite dimensional space of square-integrable harmonic forms. In the special case of a finite-volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

In Gel'fand's inverse problem, one aims to determine the topology, differential structure and Riemannian metric of a compact manifold $M$ with boundary from the knowledge of the boundary $\partial M,$ the Neumann eigenvalues $\lambda_j$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dmitri Burago , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu

In this short note we prove that a Kahler manifold with lower Ricci curvature bound and almost maximal volume is Gromov-Hausdorff close to the projective space with the Fubini-Study metric. This is done by combining the recent results of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Ved Datar , Harish Seshadri , Jian Song