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We consider the problem of when a closed hyperbolic surface admits a totally geodesic embedding into a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold, and in particular equivariant versions of such embeddings. In a previous paper we considered…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Bruno P. Zimmermann

We lay out the foundations of the theory of second-order conformal superintegrable systems. Such systems are essentially Laplace equations on a manifold with an added potential: $(\Delta_n+V({\bf x}))\Psi=0$. Distinct families of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 E. G. Kalnins , J. M. Kress , W. Miller , S. Post

A geodesic orbit manifold is a complete Riemannian manifold all of whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter groups of isometries. We give both a geometric and an algebraic characterization of geodesic orbit manifolds that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Carolyn S. Gordon , Yuriĭ G. Nikonorov

We establish, via geometric quantization of the supercotangent bundle sM of (M,g), a correspondence between its conformal geometry and those of the spinor bundle. In particular, the Kosmann Lie derivative of spinors is obtained by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Jean-Philippe Michel

In this paper, we study an extension of the CPE conjecture to manifolds $M$ which support a structure relating curvature to the geometry of a smooth map $\varphi : M \to N$. The resulting system, denoted by $(\varphi-\mathrm{CPE})$, is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Giulio Colombo , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

This article establishes the foundation for a new theory of invariant/integral manifolds for non-autonomous dynamical systems. Current rigorous support for dimensional reduction modelling of slow-fast systems is limited by the rare events…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 A. J. Roberts

We show that a natural class of twistorial maps gives a pattern for apparently different geometric maps, such as, $(1,1)$-geodesic immersions from $(1,2)$-symplectic almost Hermitian manifolds and pseudo horizontally conformal submersions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Radu Pantilie

We define the notion of special Lagrangian curvature, showing how it may be interpreted as an alternative higher dimensional generalisation of two dimensional Gaussian curvature. We obtain first a local rigidity result for this curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Graham Smith

We answer to the question whether a system of the 3rd order ODEs describes geodesics of a conformal structure. We construct a functor from a category of conformal geometries to a category of Cartan geometries associated to the 3rd order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Alexandr Medvedev

Consider an elliptic self-adjoint pseudodifferential operator $A$ acting on $m$-columns of half-densities on a closed manifold $M$, whose principal symbol is assumed to have simple eigenvalues. We show existence and uniqueness of $m$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Matteo Capoferri , Dmitri Vassiliev

The spinor representation is developed for conformal immersions of Riemann surfaces into space. We adapt the approach of Dennis Sullivan, which treats a spin structure on a Riemann surface M as a complex line bundle S whose square is the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Rob Kusner , Nick Schmitt

This paper investigates the transfer of classical geometric structures from a smooth manifold $M$ to its Weil bundle $(M^\mathbf A, \tilde\pi_M, M)$ associated with a Weil algebra $\mathbf A$. We show that various structures including…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 S. Tchuiaga , A. Ndiaye , C. Khoule , R. A. M. Mohameden

Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional manifold, $V$ the space of a representation $\rho: GL(n)\longrightarrow GL(V)$. Locally, let $T(V)$ be the space of sections of the tensor bundle with fiber $V$ over a sufficiently small open set $U\subset M$,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Pavel Grozman

Over forty years ago, Paneitz, and independently Fradkin and Tseytlin, discovered a fourth-order conformally-invariant differential operator, intrinsically defined on a conformal manifold, mapping scalars to scalars. This operator is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

We consider odd Laplace operators arising in odd symplectic geometry. Approach based on semidensities (densities of weight 1/2) is developed. The role of semidensities in the Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism is explained. In particular, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hovhannes M. Khudaverdian

For a hypersurface V of a conformal space, we introduce a conformal differential invariant I = h^2/g, where g and h are the first and the second fundamental forms of V connected by the apolarity condition. This invariant is called the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

We describe the invariant metrics on real flag manifolds and classify those with the following property: every geodesic is the orbit of a one-parameter subgroup. Such a metric is called g.o. (geodesic orbit). In contrast to the complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Brian Grajales , Lino Grama , Caio J. C. Negreiros

Tubular neighborhoods play an important role in differential topology. We have applied these constructions to geometry of almost Hermitian manifolds. At first, we consider deformations of tensor structures on a normal tubular neighborhood…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Alexander A. Ermolitski

On a M\"obius surface, as defined by D. Calderbank, we study a variant of the Einstein-Weyl (EW) equation which we call scalar-flat M\"obius EW (sf-MEW). This is a conformally invariant, finite type, overdetermined system of semi-linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Matthew Randall

We study the rigidity of compact submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary codimension that satisfy a sharp pinching condition involving the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. Without assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Theodoros Vlachos