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Let $M$ be a compact smooth Riemannian manifold of finite dimension $n+1$ with boundary $\partial M$and $\partial M$ is a compact $n$-dimensional submanifold of $M$. We show that for generic Riemannian metric $g$, all the critical points of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

We study the moduli space of negatively curved metrics of a hyperbolic manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 F. T. Farrell , P. Ontaneda

We consider conformal deformations within a class of incomplete Riemannian metrics which generalize conic orbifold singularities by allowing both warping and any compact manifold (not just quotients of the sphere) to be the "link" of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Thalia Jeffres , Julie Rowlett

Let $X$ be an open (i.e. complete, non-compact and without boundary) Alexandrov $n$-space of nonnegative curvature with a soul $S$. In this paper, we will establish several structural results on $X$ that can be viewed as counterparts of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Xueping Li , Xiaochun Rong

We prove that compact non-flat manifolds with constant sectional curvature admit no conformal product structure. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the methods extend naturally to irreducible, compact locally symmetric spaces of non-positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Xianfeng Jiang

This is a survey of some results on the structure and classification of normal analytic compactifications of C^2. Mirroring the existing literature, we especially emphasize the compactifications for which the curve at infinity is…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Pinaki Mondal

We show that a properly immersed minimal hypersurface in M x R_+ equals some M x {c} when M is a complete, recurrent n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with bounded curvature. If on the other hand, M has nonnegative Ricci curvature with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Harold Rosenberg , Felix Schulze , Joel Spruck

The conullity of a curvature tensor is the codimension of its kernel. We consider the cases of conullity two in any dimension and conullity three in dimension four. We show that these conditions are compatible with non-negative sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Thomas G. Brooks

Let $M$ be a topological spherical space form, i.e. a smooth manifold whose universal cover is a homotopy sphere. We determine the number of path components of the space and moduli space of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Philipp Reiser

We show that any horizontally homothetic submersion from a compact manifold of nonnegative sectional curvature is a Riemannian submersion.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ye-Lin Ou , Frederick Wilhelm

In this paper, we completely classify all compact 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature. We show that they are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{S}^4,$ or $\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^4$ or quotients of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$ by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-14 Bing-Long Chen , Siu-Hung Tang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We prove metric rigidity for complete manifolds supporting solutions of certain second order differential systems, thus extending classical works on a characterization of space-forms. In the route, we also discover new characterizations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Stefano Pigola , Michele Rimoldi

We consider an asymptotically flat Riemannian spin manifold of positive scalar curvature. An inequality is derived which bounds the Riemann tensor in terms of the total mass and quantifies in which sense curvature must become small when the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Felix Finster , Ines Kath

Using a method introduced by R. Bamler to study the behavior of scalar curvature under continuous deformations of Riemannian metrics, we prove that if a sequence of smooth Riemannian metrics gi on a fixed compact manifold M has isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Thomas Richard

Let $M=X\times Y$ be the product of two complex manifolds of positive dimensions. In this paper, we prove that there is no complete K\"ahler metric $g$ on $M$ such that: either (i) the holomorphic bisectional curvature of $g$ is bounded by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-30 Luen-Fai Tam , Chengjie Yu

We study positive scalar curvature on the regular part of Riemannian manifolds with singular, uniformly Euclidean ($L^\infty$) metrics that consolidate Gromov's scalar curvature polyhedral comparison theory and edge metrics that appear in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Chao Li , Christos Mantoulidis

We study curvature functionals for immersed 2-spheres in a compact, three-dimensional Riemannian manifold M. Under the assumption that the sectional curvature of M is strictly positive, we prove the existence of a smoothly immersed sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Ernst Kuwert , Andrea Mondino , Johannes Schygulla

In this article we study compact K\ahler manifolds satisfying a certain nonnegativity condition on the bisectional curvature. Under this condition, we show that the scalar curvature is nonnegative and that the first Chern class is positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Albert Chau , Luen-Fai Tam

We give a geometric obstruction to the non-negativity of the sectional curvature in the total spaces of certain Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibers; applications of this obstruction to several examples are given.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-17 C. Durán , L. D. Sperança

We consider the problem of conformally deforming a metric to one with a prescribed symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor, in the case of negative curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Matthew Gursky , Jeff Viaclovsky