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We discuss asymptotically hyperbolic manifold with a noncompact boundary which is close to a horosphere in a certain sense. The model case is a horoball or the complement of a horoball in standard hyperbolic space. We show some geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Xiaoxiang Chai

We show that the metric universal cover of a plane with a puncture yields an example of a nonstandard hull properly containing the metric completion of a metric space. As mentioned by do Carmo, a nonextendible Riemannian manifold can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Vladimir Kanovei , Mikhail G. Katz , Tahl Nowik

Let K be a connected Lie group and M a Hamiltonian K-manifold. In this paper, we introduce the notion of convexity of M. It implies that the momentum image is convex, the moment map has connected fibers, and the total moment map is open…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Friedrich Knop

Given a closed orientable Euclidean cone 3-manifold C with cone angles less than or equal to pi, and which is not almost product, we describe the space of constant curvature cone structures on C with cone angles less than pi. We establish a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Joan Porti , Hartmut Weiss

We consider principal fibre bundles with a given connection and construct almost complex structures on the total space if the adjoint bundle is isomorphic to the tangent bundle of the base. We derive the integrability condition. If the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Raphael Zentner

We study topological rigidity of real moment-angle manifolds associated to flag simplicial complexes. Using the cubical geometry arising from the Davis construction, we identify the universal cover with the Davis complex and deduce that it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Ioannis Gkeneralis

We prove that every locally conformally flat metric on a closed, oriented hyperbolic 4-manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by -12 satisfies Schoen's conjecture. We also classify all closed Riemannian 4-manifolds of positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jialong Deng

In their 2012 paper, Bobadilla and Koll\'ar studied topological conditions which guarantee that a proper map of complex algebraic varieties is a topological or differentiable fibration. They also asked whether a certain finiteness property…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Yongqiang Liu , Laurenţiu Maxim , Botong Wang

4-manifolds have special topological properties which can be used to get a different view on quantum mechanics. One important property (connected with exotic smoothness) is the natural appearance of 3-manifold wild embeddings (Alexanders…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

In this note we relate the geometric notion of fill radius with the fundamental group of the manifold. We prove: ''Suppose that a closed Riemannian manifold M satisfies the property that its universal cover has bounded fill radius. Then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-27 Mohan Ramachandran , Jon Wolfson

Using a recent description of the geometric stability manifold, we show the geometric stability manifold associated to any smooth projective complex surface is contractible. We then use this result to demonstrate infinitely many new…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Nick Rekuski

We find boundaries of Borel-Serre compactifications of locally symmetric spaces, for which any filling is incompressible. We prove this result by showing that these boundaries have small singular models and using these models to obstruct…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Grigori Avramidi

We prove the rigidity of positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. Namely, if the mass equality holds, then the manifold is isometric to hyperbolic space. The result was previously proven for spin manifolds or under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Hyun Chul Jang , Daniel Martin

We prove the infinitesimal rigidity of some geometrically infinite hyperbolic 4- and 5-manifolds. These examples arise as infinite cyclic coverings of finite-volume hyperbolic manifolds obtained by colouring right-angled polytopes, already…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Ludovico Battista

We prove global rigidity for compact hyperbolic and spherical cone-3-manifolds with cone-angles $\leq \pi$ (which are not Seifert fibered in the spherical case), furthermore for a class of hyperbolic cone-3-manifolds of finite volume with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Hartmut Weiss

The aim of this manuscript is to obtain rigidity and non-existence results for parabolic spacelike submanifolds with causal mean curvature vector field in orthogonally splitted spacetimes, and in particular, in globally hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Jónatan Herrera , Rafael M. Rubio

The spectral geometry of negatively curved manifolds has received more attention than its positive curvature counterpart. In this paper we will survey a variety of spectral geometry results that are known to hold in the context of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Emilio A. Lauret , Benjamin Linowitz

We show, up to h-cobordism, that the existence and uniqueness of connected sum decompositions of oriented 4-dimensional manifolds is an invariant of homotopy equivalence, assuming that the fundamental group of each summand is "good" in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Qayum Khan

The Isomorphism Conjecture is a conceptional approach towards a calculation of the algebraic K-theory of a group ring RG, where G is an infinite group. In this paper we prove the conjecture in dimensions n<2 for fundamental groups of closed…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Arthur Bartels , Tom Farrell , Lowell Jones , Holger Reich

This paper uses algebro-topological techniques such as characteristic classes and obstruction theory, together with the $h$-principles for $\widetilde{\mathrm{G}}_2$ and $\mathrm{SL}(3;\mathbb{R})^2$ forms recently established by the author…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Laurence H. Mayther