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An outstanding open question, which has attracted renewed attention following the pioneering work of Huang--Li--Treuer, is whether, for a given positive integer $m$, there exists a complex manifold whose Bergman metric is locally isometric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shreedhar Bhat , Soumya Ganguly , Achinta Kumar Nandi , Ming Xiao

The main result of this paper is an expression of the flag curvature of a submanifold of a Randers-Minkowski space $({\mathscr V},F)$ in terms of invariants related to its Zermelo data $(h,W)$. More precisely, these invariants are the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Matthieu Huber , Miguel Angel Javaloyes

A Finsler space $(M,F)$ is called flag-wise positively curved, if for any $x\in M$ and any tangent plane $\mathbf{P}\subset T_xM$, we can find a nonzero vector $y\in \mathbf{P}$, such that the flag curvature $K^F(x,y, \mathbf{P})>0$. Though…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Ming Xu

An important classification problem in Algebraic Geometry deals with pairs $(\E,\phi)$, consisting of a torsion free sheaf $\E$ and a non-trivial homomorphism $\phi\colon (\E^{\otimes a})^{\oplus b}\lra\det(\E)^{\otimes c}\otimes \L$ on a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander H. W. Schmitt

In this paper we study spherically symmetric metrics on a symmetric space in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with scalar and constant flag curvature and we also obtain families of this type of metrics. Many explicit examples are provided for Douglas metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Newton Solorzano , Benedito Leandro

In this paper, studying the inverse problem, we establish a curvature compatibility condition on a spherically symmetric Finsler metric. As an application, we characterize the spherically symmetric metrics of scalar curvature. We construct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-08 S. G. Elgendi

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

The aim of the present paper is to provide a global presentation of the theory of special Finsler manifolds. We introduce and investigate globally (or intrinsically, free from local coordinates) many of the most important and most commonly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-20 Nabil L. Youssef , S. H. Abed , A. Soleiman

We develop a new approach to the conformal geometry of embedded hypersurfaces by treating them as conformal infinities of conformally compact manifolds. This involves the Loewner--Nirenberg-type problem of finding on the interior a metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-15 A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

An $(\alpha,\beta)$-manifold $(M,F)$ is a Finsler manifold with the Finsler metric $F$ being defined by a Riemannian metric $\alpha$ and $1$-form $\beta$ on the manifold $M$. In this paper, we classify $n$-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Guojun Yang

Given a flat metric one may generate a local Hamiltonian structure via the fundamental result of Dubrovin and Novikov. More generally, a flat pencil of metrics will generate a local bi-Hamiltonian structure, and with additional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Liana David , Ian A. B. Strachan

We find a new obstruction for a real Einstein 4-orbifold with an A1-singularity to be a limit of smooth Einstein 4-manifolds. The obstruction is a curvature condition at the singular point. For asymptotically hyperbolic metrics, with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Olivier Biquard

We obtain topological obstructions to the existence of a complete Riemannian metric with uniformly positive scalar curvature on certain (non-compact) $4$-manifolds. In particular, such a metric on the interior of a compact contractible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Otis Chodosh , Davi Maximo , Anubhav Mukherjee

Let $F$ be a homogeneous $(\alpha_1,\alpha_2)$ metric on the reductive homogeneous manifold $G/H$. Firstly, we characterize the natural reductiveness of $F$ as a local $f$-product between naturally reductive Riemannian metrics. Secondly, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Ju Tan , Ming Xu

We present a general method for constructing real solutions to some problems in enumerative geometry which gives lower bounds on the maximum number of real solutions. We apply this method to show that two new classes of enumerative…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Frank Sottile

In this note we prove that a four-dimensional compact oriented half-confor\-mally flat Riemannian manifold $M^4$ is topologically $\mathbb{S}^{4}$ or $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2},$ provided that the sectional curvatures all lie in the interval…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 R. Diógenes , E. Ribeiro , E. Rufino

We consider a triality between the Zermelo navigation problem, the geodesic flow on a Finslerian geometry of Randers type, and spacetimes in one dimension higher admitting a timelike conformal Killing vector field. From the latter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-05 G. W. Gibbons , C. A. R. Herdeiro , C. M. Warnick , M. C. Werner

We investigate certain immersions of constant curvature from Riemann surfaces into flag manifolds equipped with invariant metrics, namely primitive lifts associated to pseudoholomorphic maps of surfaces into complex Grassmannians. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Rui Pacheco , Mehmood Ur Rehman

In this paper, a class of holomorphic invariant metrics is introduced on the irreducible classical domains of type I-IV, which are strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler metrics in the strict sense of M. Abate and G. Patrizio[2]. These…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Xiaoshu Ge , Chunping Zhong

The curvature discussed in this paper is a rather far going generalization of the Riemannian sectional curvature. We define it for a wide class of optimal control problems: a unified framework including geometric structures such as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Andrei Agrachev , Davide Barilari , Luca Rizzi