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We continue our study, initiated in our earlier paper, of Riemann surfaces with constant curvature and isolated conic singularities. Using the machinery developed in that earlier paper of extended configuration families of simple divisors,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Rafe Mazzeo , Xuwen Zhu

Invariants for Riemann surfaces covered by the disc and for hyperbolic manifolds in general involving minimizing the measure of the image over the homotopy and homology classes of closed curves and maps of the $k$-sphere into the manifold…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Robert E. Greene , Kang-Tae Kim , Nikolay V. Shcherbina

In this paper we study the existence and regularity of stable manifolds associated to fixed points of parabolic type in the differentiable and analytic cases, using the parametrization method. The parametrization method relies on a suitable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Inmaculada Baldomá , Ernest Fontich , Pau Martín

In this article, we consider perturbations of isometries on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$. We investigate the smooth (resp. analytic) rigidity phenomenon of groups of these isometries. As a particular case, we prove that if a finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Laurent Stolovitch , Zhiyan Zhao

We consider a class of overdetermined problems in rotationally symmetric spaces, which reduce to the classical Serrin's overdetermined problem in the case of the Euclidean space. We prove some general integral identities for rotationally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Giulio Ciraolo , Luigi Vezzoni

Is a sequence of Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature, satisfying some conditions to keep the sequence reasonable, compact? What topology should one use for the convergence and what is the regularity of the limit space? In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Brian Allen , Wenchuan Tian , Changliang Wang

This paper proposes several Converse Lyapunov Theorems for nonlinear dynamical systems defined on smooth connected Riemannian manifolds and characterizes properties of corresponding Lyapunov functions in a normal neighborhood of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Farzin Taringoo , Peter M. Dower , Dragan Nešić , Ying Tan

Let $(M, g)$, $(N, h)$ be compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary, and let $f$ be a smooth map from $M$ into $N$. We consider a covariant symmetric tensor $T_f$ $=$ ${\displaystyle f^*h - \frac{1}{m} |df|^2 g}$, where $f^*h$ denotes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Shigeo Kawai , Nobumitsu Nakauchi

On compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and smooth (possibly empty), convex (or mean convex) boundary, if the sharp Li-Yau type gradient estimate of an Neumann (or Dirichlet) eigenfunction holds at some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Guoyi Xu , Xiaolong Xue

In this paper we give a general family of conformal invariants associated to bordered Riemann surfaces endowed with boundary parametrizations, or equivalently compact surfaces endowed with conformal maps. Each invariant is specified by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Eric Schippers , Wolfgang Staubach

We present ${\cal N}{=}\,4$ supersymmetric mechanics on $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds constructed within the Hamiltonian approach. The structure functions entering the supercharges and the Hamiltonian obey modified covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Nikolay Kozyrev , Sergey Krivonos , Olaf Lechtenfeld , Armen Nersessian , Anton Sutulin

We consider the Riemannian functional defined on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume on a closed smooth manifold M given by $R_p(g) :=\int_M|R(g)|^pdvg$ where $R(g)$, $dv_g$ denote the corresponding Riemannian curvature, volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Soma Maity

Let a sequence of conformal Riemannian metrics $\{g_k=u_k^2g_0\}$ be isospectral to $g_0$ over a compact boundaryless smooth 4-dimension manifold $(M,g_0)$. We prove that the subsequence of conformal factors $\{u_k\}$ converges to $u$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Ke Xu

We study the surjectivity of the Cauchy-Riemann and Laplace operators on certain weighted spaces of smooth functions of rapid decay on strip-like domains in the complex plane that are defined via weight function systems. We fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Andreas Debrouwere , Quinten Van Boxstael , Jasson Vindas

We study closed $n$-dimensional manifolds of which the metrics are critical for quadratic curvature functionals involving the Ricci curvature, the scalar curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor on the space of Riemannian metrics with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Guangyue Huang

We prove sharp inequalities for determinants of Toeplitz operators and twisted Laplace operators on the two-sphere, generalizing the Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality. In particular a sharp version of conjectures of Gillet-Soule and Fang…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Robert J. Berman

Compact polyhedral surfaces (or, equivalently, compact Riemann surfaces with conformal flat conical metrics) of an arbitrary genus are considered. After giving a short self-contained survey of their basic spectral properties, we study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-04 Alexey Kokotov

A rigidity theory is developed for bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ whose vertices are constrained to lie on concentric $d$-spheres with independently variable radii. In particular, combinatorial characterisations are established…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Walter Whiteley

We construct non-trivial continuous isospectral deformations of Riemannian metrics on the ball and on the sphere in $\R^n$ for every $n\geq 9$. The metrics on the sphere can be chosen arbitrarily close to the round metric; in particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Carolyn S. Gordon

We consider solutions to some semilinear elliptic equations on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds and study their classification as well as the effect of their presence on the underlying manifold. When the Ricci curvature is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Farina , Camilla Chiara Polvara