A complete solution to the quaternionic contact Yamabe problem on the seven-dimensional sphere is given. Extremals for the Sobolev inequality on the seven-dimensional Heisenberg group are explicitly described and the best constant in the L2 Folland–Stein embedding theorem is determined.
We give the definition of -biminimal submanifolds and derive the equation for -biminimal submanifolds. As an application, we give some examples of -biminimal manifolds. Finally, we consider -minimal hypersurfaces in the product space and derive two rigidity theorems.
We investigate the role of Hertling-Manin condition on the structure constants of an associative commutative algebra in the theory of integrable systems of hydrodynamic type. In such a framework we introduce the notion of -manifold with compatible connection generalizing a structure introduced by Manin.
O’Grady showed that certain special sextics in called EPW sextics admit smooth double covers with a holomorphic symplectic structure. We propose another perspective on these symplectic manifolds, by showing that they can be constructed from the Hilbert schemes of conics on Fano fourfolds of degree ten. As applications, we construct families of Lagrangian surfaces in these symplectic fourfolds, and related integrable systems whose fibers are intermediate Jacobians.