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We investigate the Einstein equation with a positive cosmological constant for $4n+4$-dimensional metrics on bundles over Quaternionic K\"ahler base manifolds whose fibers are 4-dimensional Bianchi IX manifolds. The Einstein equations are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitsuo Hiragane , Yukinori Yasui , Hideki Ishihara

Given a metric defined on a manifold of dimension three, we study the problem of finding a conformal filling by a Poincar\'e-Einstein metric on a manifold of dimension four. We establish a compactness result for classes of conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Sun-Yung Alice Chang , Yuxin Ge

We initiate a systematic study of the deformation theory of the second Einstein metric $g_{1/\sqrt{5}}$ respectively the proper nearly $G_2$ structure $\varphi_{1/\sqrt{5}}$ of a $3$-Sasaki manifold $(M^7,g)$. We show that infinitesimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Paul-Andi Nagy , Uwe Semmelmann

Let {(M,g_i)} be a sequence of smooth compact oriented Einstein 4-manifolds of fixed Einstein constant $\lambda > 0$ that Gromov-Hausdorff converges to a 4-dimensional Einstein orbifold X. Suppose, moreover, that the limit metric is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Claude LeBrun , Tristan Ozuch

We give an explicit local classification of conformally equivalent but oppositely oriented Kaehler metrics on a 4-manifold which are toric with respect to a common 2-torus action. In the generic case, these structures have an intriguing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Vestislav Apostolov , David M. J. Calderbank , Paul Gauduchon

We study the problem of conformally deforming a manifold with boundary to have vanishing {\sigma}4-curvature in the interior and constant H4- curvature on the boundary. We prove that there are geometrically distinct solutions using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Zhengyang Shan

We compute curvatures of a family of tractable metrics on Stiefel manifolds, introduced recently by H{\"u}per, Markina and Silva Leite, which includes the well-known embedded and canonical metrics on Stiefel manifolds as special cases. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Du Nguyen

This paper defines two new extrinsic curvature quantities on the corner of a four-dimensional Riemannian manifold with corner. One of these is a pointwise conformal invariant, and the conformal transformation of the other is governed by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Stephen E. McKeown

In this work we study the existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics on the total space of homogeneous fibrations such that the fibers are totally geodesic manifolds. We obtain the Ricci curvature of an invariant metric with totally geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-25 Fatima Araujo

We construct bi-Lipschitz embeddings into Euclidean space for manifolds and orbifolds of bounded diameter and curvature. The distortion and dimension of such embeddings is bounded by diameter, curvature and dimension alone. Our results also…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Sylvester Eriksson-Bique

In this paper, we deduce a Bochner-type identity for compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with boundary. As consequence, we are able to show a rigidity result for Einstein-type manifolds assuming the parallel Ricci curvature condition.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Maria Andrade , Halyson Baltazar , Christopher Queiroz

In this paper we construct a family of examples of self-dual Einstain metrics of neutral signature, which are not Ricci flat, nor locally homogenous. Curvature of these manifolds is studied in details. These are obtained by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Novica Blazic , Srdjan Vukmirovic

A new 8-dimensional conformal gauging avoids the unphysical size change, third order gravitational field equations, and auxiliary fields that prevent taking the conformal group as a fundamental symmetry. We give the structure equations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James T. Wheeler

In this paper we provide new necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on small deformations of a Fano K\"ahler-Einstein manifold. We also show that the Weil-Petersson metric can be approximated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Xiaofeng Sun , Shing-Tung Yau , Yingying Zhang

In this paper we discuss and prove $\epsilon$-regularity theorems for Einstein manifolds $(M^n,g)$, and more generally manifolds with just bounded Ricci curvature, in the collapsed setting. A key tool in the regularity theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Aaron Naber , Ruobing Zhang

We prove that a $4-$dimensional $C^2$ conformally compact Einstein manifold with H\"older continuous scalar curvature and with $C^{m,\alpha}$ boundary metric has a $C^{m,\alpha}$ compactification. We also study the regularity of the new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Xiaoshang Jin

This article presents a new and more elementary proof of the main Seiberg-Witten-based obstruction to the existence of Einstein metrics on smooth compact 4-manifolds. It also introduces a new smooth manifold invariant which conveniently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claude LeBrun

We provide a sufficient condition for the local stability of closed Einstein manifolds of positive Ricci curvature under the Ricci iteration in terms of the spectrum of the Lichnerowicz Laplacian acting on divergence-free tensor fields. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Timothy Buttsworth , Maximilien Hallgren

We develop methods for constructing and computing conformal invariants of submanifolds, with a particular emphasis on conformal submanifold scalars and conformally invariant integrals of natural submanifold scalars. These methods include a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Jeffrey S. Case , Ayush Khaitan , Yueh-Ju Lin , Aaron J. Tyrrell , Wei Yuan

The self-dual Einstein equations on a compact Riemannian 4-manifold can be expressed as a quadratic condition on the curvature of an $SU(2)$ (spin) connection which is a covariant generalization of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Torre