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Using Real Seiberg--Witten theory, Miyazawa introduced an invariant of certain 4-manifolds with involution and used this invariant to construct infinitely many exotic involutions on $\mathbb{CP}^2$ and infinitely many exotic smooth…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-31 David Baraglia

Herein we present open problems and survey examples and theorems concerning sequences of Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower bounds on scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Examples of Gromov and of Ilmanen which naturally ought to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Christina Sormani

We study both analytically and numerically a coupled system of spherically symmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills-dilaton equation in 3+1 Minkowski space-time. It has been found that the system admits a hidden scale invariance which becomes transparent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. E. Donets , O. I. Streltsova , T. L. Boyadjiev

We discover a fundamental exterior differential system of Riemannian geometry; indeed, an intrinsic and invariant global system of differential forms of degree $n$ associated to any given oriented Riemannian manifold $M$ of dimension $n+1$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Rui Albuquerque

Recall that Federer-Fleming defined the notion of flat convergence of submanifolds of Euclidean space to solve the Plateau problem. Here we prove the upper semicontinuity of Neumann eigenvalues of the submanifolds when they converge in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Jacobus W Portegies

For conformal geometries of Riemannian signature, we provide a comprehensive and explicit treatment of the core local theory for embedded submanifolds of arbitrary dimension. This is based in the conformal tractor calculus and includes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Sean. N Curry , A. Rod Gover , Daniel Snell

In a recent work, Galloway [9] proved a local foliation theorem by MOTSs for a 3-dimensional initial data set $(M,g,K)$ with mean curvature $\tau\le0$ in a 4-dimensional spacetime $(\overline M,\overline g)$ when (under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Abraão Mendes

We discuss hypersurface motions in Riemannian manifolds whose normal velocity is a function of the induced hypersurface volume element and derive a second order partial differential equation for the corresponding time function $\tau(x)$ at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Bordemann , Jens Hoppe

The paper is devoted to the group analysis of equations of motion of two-dimensional uniformly stratified rotating fluids used as a basic model in geophysical fluid dynamics. It is shown that the nonlinear equations in question have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Nail H. Ibragimov , Ranis N. Ibragimov

Construction and classification of 2D superintegrable systems (i.e. systems admitting, in addition to two global integrals of motion guaranteeing the Liouville integrability, the third global and independent one) defined on 2D spaces of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cezary Gonera , Magdalena Kaszubska

In this paper, we study systems of nonlinear partial differential equations which describe surfaces of constant curvature. From the flatness condition of connection 1-forms, we present a classification of systems of Camassa-Holm-type…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Mingyue Guo , Jing Kang , Zhenhua Shi

It is known that every nonorientable surface $\Sigma$ has an orientable double cover $\tilde{\Sigma}$. The covering map induces an involution on the moduli space $\tilde{\M}$ of gauge equivalence classes of flat $G$-connections on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nan-Kuo Ho

We study two aspects of the loop group formulation for isometric immersions with flat normal bundle of space forms. The first aspect is to examine the loop group maps along different ranges of the loop parameter. This leads to various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-06 David Brander

We introduce a new geometric evolution equation for hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat spacetime initial data sets, that unites the theory of marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTS) with the study of inverse mean curvature flow in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Kristen Moore

A general method for the construction of smooth flat connections on 3-manifolds is introduced. The procedure is strictly connected with the deduction of the fundamental group of a manifold M by means of a Heegaard splitting presentation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Enore Guadagnini , Philippe Mathieu , Frank Thuillier

This study derives conservative and skew-symmetric formulations of the incompressible flow equations in a terrain-following sigma-coordinate system that preserve key structural properties of the Cartesian formulation. Unlike conventional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-27 Jaeyoung Jung , Marco Giometto

We develop a unified Courant--Hilbert framework for constructing two-dimensional integrable sigma models deformed by two couplings: a marginal one $\gamma$ and an irrelevant one $\lambda$. The integrability condition is encoded in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 H. Babaei-Aghbolagh , Bin Chen , Song He

This paper surveys results found by the authors in the previous papers (see for example, A. Duyunova, V. Lychagin, S. Tychkov, Differential invariants for spherical layer flows of a viscid fluid, Journal of Geometry and Physics, 130,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Anna Duyunova , Valentin Lychagin , Sergey Tychkov

Starting from suitable tableaux over finite dimensional Lie algebras, we provide a scheme for producing involutive linear Pfaffian systems related to various classes of submanifolds in homogeneous spaces which constitute integrable systems.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-06 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

Cauchy invariants are now viewed as a powerful tool for investigating the Lagrangian structure of three-dimensional (3D) ideal flow (Frisch & Zheligovsky, Commun. Math. Phys., vol. 326, 2014, pp. 499-505, Podvigina et al., J. Comput. Phys.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-01 Nicolas Besse , Uriel Frisch