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We investigate harmonic unit vector fields with totally geodesic integral curves on 3-manifolds. Under mild curvature assumptions, we classify both the vector fields and the manifolds that support them. Our results are inspired by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Georges Habib , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

In this paper we examine different aspects of the geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. We begin by getting obstructions to the existence of closed conformal and nonparallel vector fields on complete manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-01 A. Caminha

Steady fluid flows have very special topology. In this paper we describe necessary and sufficient conditions on the vorticity function of a 2D ideal flow on a surface with or without boundary, for which there exists a steady flow among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

Given a compact smooth manifold $M$ with non-empty boundary and a Morse function, a pseudo-gradient Morse-Smale vector field adapted to the boundary allows one to build a Morse complex whose homology is isomorphic to the (absolute or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-12 Francois Laudenbach

The sectional curvature of the volume preserving diffeomorphism group of a Riemannian manifold $M$ can give information about the stability of inviscid, incompressible fluid flows on $M$. We demonstrate that the submanifold of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Pearce Washabaugh , Stephen C. Preston

We obtain height, gradient, and curvature a priori estimates for a modified mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. As a consequence, we prove the existence of smooth, entire, longtime solutions for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jocel Faustino Norberto de Oliveira , Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira , Matheus Nunes Soares

In this paper, we derive a new form of maximum principle for smooth functions on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $M$ for which there exists a bounded vector field $X$ such that $\langle\nabla f,X\rangle\geq 0$ on $M$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Luis J. Alias , Antonio Caminha , F. Yure do Nascimento

Brinkmann Lorentz manifolds are those admitting an isotropic parallel vector field. We prove geodesic completeness of the compact and also compactly homogeneous Brinkmann spaces. We also prove, partially, that their parallel vector field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Lilia Mehidi , Abdelghani Zeghib

Any traversally generic vector flow on a compact manifold $X$ with boundary leaves some residual structure on its boundary $\d X$. A part of this structure is the flow-generated causality map $C_v$, which takes a region of $\d X$ to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Gabriel Katz

A hypercomplex manifold is by definition a smooth manifold equipped with two anticommuting integrable almost complex structures. For example, every hyperkaehler manifold is canonically hypercomplex (the converse is not true). For every…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 D. Kaledin

In this paper we study the existence of periodic orbits in the flow of non-singular steady Euler fields $X$ on closed 3-manifolds, that is $X$ is a solution of time independent Euler equations. We show, that when $X$ is $C^2$ the flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Ana Rechtman

In this work we construct the $\Co^{\r}$-completion and $\Co^{\l}$-completion of a dynamical system. If $X$ is a flow, we construct canonical maps $X\to \Co^{\r}(X)$ and $X\to \Co^{\l}(X)$ and when these maps are homeomorphism we have the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-01 J. M. Garcia Calcines , L. J. Hernandez Paricio , M. T. Rivas Rodriguez

A unit vector field on a Riemannian manifold $M$ is called geodesic if all of its integral curves are geodesics. We show, in the case of $M$ being a flat 3-manifold not equal to $\mathbb{E}^3$, that every such vector field is tangent to a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tilman Becker

The aim of this article is to investigate the presence of a conformal vector $\xi$ with conformal factor $\rho$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with or without boundary $\partial M$. We firstly prove that a compact Riemannian manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 A. Barros , I. Evangelista , E. Viana

We prove here that given a proper isometric action $K\times M\to M$ on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ then every continuous isometric flow on the orbit space $M/K$ is smooth, i.e., it is the projection of an $K$-equivariant smooth flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Marcos M. Alexandrino , Marco Radeschi

Given a covering f: X \to Y of projective manifolds, we consider the vector bundle E on Y given as the dual of f_*(\O_X) / \O_Y. This vector bundles often has positivity properties, e.g. E is ample when Y is projective space by a theorem of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Peternell , Andrew J. Sommese

Motivated by the wild behavior of isolated essential singularities in complex analysis, we study singular complex analytic vector fields $X$ on arbitrary Riemann surfaces $M$. By vector field singularities we understand zeros, poles,…

The incompressible Euler equations on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ take the form \begin{align*} \partial_t u + \nabla_u u &= - \mathrm{grad}_g p \\ \mathrm{div}_g u &= 0, \end{align*} where $u: [0,T] \to \Gamma(T M)$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Terence Tao

A vector field X on a manifold M with possibly nonempty boundary is inward if it generates a unique local semiflow $\Phi^X$. A compact relatively open set K in the zero set of X is a block. The Poincar\'e-Hopf index is generalized to an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Morris W. Hirsch

In Finsler geometry the complete lift vector fields have distinguished geometric significance. For example a vector field on a Finsler manifold is said to be conformal if its complete lift is conformal in usual sense. In this work we define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Bidabad