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Conformal invariance plays a significant role in many areas of Physics, such as conformal field theory, renormalization theory, turbulence, general relativity. Naturally, it also plays an important role in geometry: theory of Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Tristan Rivière

This paper is concerned with the existence of conformal metrics of the disk with prescribed Gaussian and geodesic curvatures. Being more specific, given nonnegative smooth functions $K: \overline{\mathbb{D}} \to \mathbb{R}$ and $h: \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-02 David Ruiz

In this paper, we consider the problem of existence and multiplicity of conformal metrics on a riemannian compact $4-$dimensional manifold $(M^4,g_0)$ with positive scalar curvature. We prove new exitence criterium which provides existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-10 Hichem Chtioui , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

In this paper we extend some well-known rigidity results for conformal changes of Einstein metrics to the class of generalized quasi-Einstein (GQE) metrics, which includes gradient Ricci solitons. In order to do so, we introduce the notions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Jeffrey Jauregui , William Wylie

We obtain necessary conditions for the existence of special K\"ahler structures with isolated singularities on compact Riemann surfaces. We prove that these conditions are also sufficient in the case of the Riemann sphere and, moreover, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Andriy Haydys , Bin Xu

In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature under minimal boundary conditions on the standard four dimensional half sphere. We provide an Euler-Hopf type criterion for a given function to be a scalar curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 M. Ben Ayed , K. El Mehdi , M. Ould Ahmedou

This article studies the harmonicity of vector fields on Riemannian manifolds, viewed as maps into the tangent bundle equipped with a family of Riemannian metrics. Geometric and topological rigidity conditions are obtained, especially for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , L. Todjihounde

To study asymptotic structures, we regularize Einstein's field equations by means of conformal transformations. The conformal factor is chosen so that it carries a dimensional scale that captures crucial asymptotic features. By choosing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Niklas Rohr , Claes Uggla

A new characterization is provided for the class of compact rank-one symmetric spaces. Such spaces are the only symmetric spaces of compact type for which the standard vector field on their sphere bundles is Killing with respect to some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 J. C. González-Dávila

A discrete conformality for hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces is introduced in this paper. This discrete conformality is shown to be computable. It is proved that each hyperbolic polyhedral metric on a closed surface is discrete conformal to a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Xianfeng Gu , Ren Guo , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

Cone spherical metrics are conformal metrics with constant curvature one and finitely many conical singularities on compact Riemann surfaces. By using Strebel differentials as a bridge, we construct a new class of cone spherical metrics on…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Jijian Song , Yiran Cheng , Bo Li , Bin Xu

Using variational considerations, we establish that there exists a new symmetric trace-free tensor conformal invariant of hypersurfaces embeddings in even dimensional conformal manifolds. This conformal invariant completes the family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover

We study complex non-K\"ahler manifolds with Hermitian metrics being locally conformal to metrics with special cohomological properties. In particular, we provide examples where the existence of locally conformal holomorphic-tamed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Daniele Angella , Luis Ugarte

In this article we introduce a diffeomorphism-invariant Riemannian metric on the space of vector valued one-forms. The particular choice of metric is motivated by potential future applications in the field of functional data and shape…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Martin Bauer , Eric Klassen , Stephen C. Preston , Zhe Su

We establish the following Hadamard--Stoker type theorem: Let $f:M^n\rightarrow\mathscr{H}^n\times\mathbb R$ be a complete connected hypersurface with positive definite second fundamental form, where $\mathscr H^n$ is a Hadamard manifold.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Ronaldo Freire de Lima

We consider a $3$-dimensional differentiable manifold with two circulant structures -- a Riemannian metric and an additional structure, whose third power is the identity. The structure is compatible with the metric such that an isometry is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Georgi Dzhelepov

This paper makes a formal study of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics given, as conformal infinity, a conformal manifold with boundary. The space on which such an Einstein metric exists thus has a finite boundary in addition to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Stephen E. McKeown

This work deals with the conformal transformations in six-dimensional spinorial formalism. Several conformally invariant equations are obtained and their geometrical interpretation are worked out. Finally, the integrability conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Carlos Batista

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes