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We will provide bounds on both the Betti numbers and the torsion part of the homology of hyperbolic orbifolds. These bounds are linear in the volume and are a direct consequence of an efficient simplicial model of the thick part, which we…

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We introduce boundary special generic maps, a class of submersions from manifolds with boundary to Euclidean spaces whose restriction to the boundary has only boundary definite fold points as its singular points. We derive the…

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In this work, we construct distance like functions with integral hessian bound on manifolds with small curvature concentration and use it to construct Ricci flows on manifolds with possibly unbounded curvature. As an application, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Pak-Yeung Chan , Shaochuang Huang , Man-Chun Lee

We obtain strong upper bounds for the Betti numbers of compact complex-hyperbolic manifolds. We use the unitary holonomy to improve the results given by the most direct application of the techniques of [DS17]. We also provide effective…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Luca F. Di Cerbo , Mark Stern

We classify biharmonic submanifolds with certain geometric properties in Euclidean spheres. For codimension 1, we determine the biharmonic hypersurfaces with at most two distinct principal curvatures and the conformally flat biharmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Balmuş , S. Montaldo , C. Oniciuc

This paper deals with the subject of infinitesimal variations of Euclidean submanifolds with arbitrary dimension and codimension. The main goal is to establish a Fundamental theorem for these geometric objects. Similar to the theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 M. Dajczer , M. I. Jimenez

We derive the topological obstructions to the existence of non-Cliffordian pin structures on four-dimensional spacetimes. We apply these obstructions to the study of non-Cliffordian pin-Lorentz cobordism. We note that our method of…

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We construct small covers and quasitoric manifolds over $n$-dimensional simple polytopes which allow proper colorings of facets with $n$ colors. We calculate Stiefel-Whitney classes of these manifolds as obstructions to immersions and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Djordje Baralic , Vladimir Grujic

Exploiting the special features of four-dimensional Riemannian geometry, we derive topological and rigidity results for hypersurfaces immersed in space forms of dimension 5. First, we provide a complete description of the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Davide Dameno , Aaron J. Tyrrell

We prove rigidity theorems for ancient solutions of geometric flows of immersed submanifolds. Specifically, we find pinching conditions on the second fundamental form that characterize the shrinking sphere among compact ancient solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Susanna Risa , Carlo Sinestrari

This paper extends the possibility to examine the underlying curvature of data through the lens of topology by using the Betti curves, tools of Persistent Homology, as key topological descriptors, building on the clique topology approach.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Luigi Caputi , Anna Pidnebesna , Jaroslav Hlinka

In this paper, we consider the essential spectrum of submanifolds in Euclidean spaces under various geometric hypotheses. Our results involve extrinsic conditions such as finite total mean curvature, the convergence of the gradient of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Yuxin Dong , Hezi Lin , Wei Zhang

We prove for the first time a pointwise lower estimate of the normal injectivity radius of an embedded hypersurface in an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. Main applications include: (i) a pointwise lower estimate of the graphing radius of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sebastian Boldt , Batu Güneysu , Stefano Pigola

An immersion of a compact manifold is tight if it admits the minimal total absolute curvature over all immersions of the manifold. A prominent result in the study of minimal total absolute curvature immersions is the theorem of Chern and…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ross Niebergall , Gudlaugur Thorbergsson

We study cohomological properties of complex manifolds. In particular, under suitable metric conditions, we extend to higher dimensions a result by A. Teleman, which provides an upper bound for the Bott-Chern cohomology in terms of Betti…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Daniele Angella , Adriano Tomassini , Misha Verbitsky

In this paper, we systematically investigate the geometry and topology of manifolds with integral radial curvature bounds, and obtain many interesting and important conclusions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Jing Mao

We study the a.s. convergence of a sequence of random embeddings of a fixed manifold into Euclidean spaces of increasing dimensions. We show that the limit is deterministic. As a consequence, we show that many intrinsic functionals of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Sunder Ram Krishnan , Jonathan E. Taylor , Robert J. Adler

We obtain new topological restrictions for complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and RCD(0,n) spaces. Our main results are a Betti number rigidity theorem which answers a question open since work of M.-T. Anderson…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alessandro Cucinotta , Mattia Magnabosco , Daniele Semola

In this paper, we study the rigidity problem for compact minimal Legendrian submanifolds in the unit Euclidean spheres via eigenvalues of fundamental matrices, which measure the squared norms of the second fundamental form on all normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Pei-Yi Wu , Ling Yang

We study obstructions to the existence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on closed smooth manifolds arising from torsion classes in the integral homology of their fundamental groups. As an application, we construct new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Misha Gromov , Bernhard Hanke