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Consider an immersed Legendrian surface in the five dimensional complex projective space equipped with the standard homogeneous contact structure. We introduce a class of fourth order projective Legendrian deformation called…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-22 Joe S. Wang

Given an oriented Riemannian surface $(\Sigma, g)$, its tangent bundle $T\Sigma$ enjoys a natural pseudo-K\"{a}hler structure, that is the combination of a complex structure $\J$, a pseudo-metric $\G$ with neutral signature and a symplectic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Henri Anciaux , Brendan Guilfoyle , Pascal Romon

Given a reductive representation $\rho: \pi_1(S)\rightarrow G$, there exists a $\rho$-equivariant harmonic map $f$ from the universal cover of a fixed Riemann surface $\Sigma$ to the symmetric space $G/K$ associated to $G$. If the Hopf…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Song Dai , Qiongling Li

We consider minimization problems of functionals given by the difference between the Willmore functional of a closed surface and its area, when the latter is multiplied by a positive constant weight $\Lambda$ and when the surfaces are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Marco Pozzetta

In this paper, we show that every $8$-dimensional closed Riemmanian manifold with $C^\infty$-generic metrics admits a smooth minimal hypersurface. This generalized previous results by N. Smale and Chodosh-Liokumovich-Spolaor. Different from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

We introduce a new Legendrian isotopy invariant for any closed orientable Legendrian surface $L$ embedded in a closed contact $5$-manifold $(M, \xi)$ which admits an "admissable" open book $(B, f)$ (supporting $\xi$) for $L$. We show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-13 M. Firat Arikan , Ozlem Ersen

We prove a Seifert-van Kampen theorem for Legendrian submanifolds and exact Lagrangian cobordisms, and use it to calculate the change in the DGA caused by critical Legendrian ambient surgery.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Mark Lowell

We prove that a deformation of a hypersurface in a $(n+1)$-dimensional real space form ${\mathbb S}^{n+1}_{p,1}$ induce a Hamiltonian variation of the normal congruence in the space ${\mathbb L}({\mathbb S}^{n+1}_{p,1})$ of oriented…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Nikos Georgiou , Guillermo Antonio Lobos Villagra

We study minimal graphs in the homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifold $\widetilde{PSL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ and we give examples of invariant surfaces. We derive a gradient estimate for solutions of the minimal surface equation in this space and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-26 Rami Younes

We generalize the results of Song-Zelditch on geodesics in spaces of Kahler metrics on toric varieties to harmonic maps of any compact Riemannian manifold with boundary into the space of Kahler metrics on a toric variety. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-13 Yanir A. Rubinstein , Steve Zelditch

We consider solutions of Lagrangian variational problems with linear constraints on the derivative. These solutions are given by curves $\gamma$ in a differentiable manifold $M$ that are everywhere tangent to a smooth distribution $\mathcal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Piccione , Daniel V. Tausk

We generalize the following result of White: Suppose $N$ is a compact, strictly convex domain in $\RR^3$ with smooth boundary. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact 2-manifold with boundary. Then a generic smooth curve $\Gamma\cong \partial\Sigma$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-18 David Hoffman , Brian White

In this article, we prove several results about the extension to the boundary of conformal immersions from an open subset $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $L$, into another Riemannian manifold $N$ of the same dimension. In dimension $n…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-06 Charles Frances

We investigate the geometry of Legendrian complex projective manifolds $X\subset\PP V$. By definition, this means $V$ is a complex vector space of dimension $2n+2$, endowed with a symplectic form, and the affine tangent space to $X$ at each…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. M. Landsberg , L. Manivel

We show that a bumpy closed Riemannian manifold $(M^{n+1}, g)$ $(3 \leq n+1 \leq 7)$ admits a sequence of connected closed embedded two-sided minimal hypersurfaces whose areas and Morse indices both tend to infinity. This improves a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Yangyang Li

In this paper we study holomorphic Legendrian curves in the standard holomorphic contact structure on $\mathbb{C}^{2n+1}$ for any $n\in\mathbb{N}$. We provide several approximation and desingularization results which enable us to prove…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Antonio Alarcon , Franc Forstneric , Francisco J. Lopez

We derive new, sharp lower bounds for certain curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics of a smooth compact 4-manifold with a non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariant. These allow one, for example, to exactly compute the infimum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Claude LeBrun

In compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension 3 or higher with positive Ricci curvature, we prove that every constant mean curvature hypersurface produced by the Allen-Cahn min-max procedure of Bellettini-Wickramasekera (with constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Costante Bellettini , Kobe Marshall-Stevens

We solve the classical problem of Plateau in the setting of proper metric spaces. Precisely, we prove that among all disc-type surfaces with prescribed Jordan boundary in a proper metric space there exists an area minimizing disc which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Alexander Lytchak , Stefan Wenger

In this paper, we introduce a kind of inverse mean curvature flow (1.2) in a Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifold $M$ for Legendrian curves, which slightly differs from the classical one, and confirm that this flow preserves the Legendrian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jingshi Cui , Peibiao Zhao