Soit $g_0$ la métrique riemannienne standard sur ${ℝ}^4$ et soit $g=e^{2u}$ une déformation conforme lisse de $g_0$. Nous présentons une condition suffisante en terme de $Q$-courbure pour que la variété $({ℝ}^4,g)$ se plonge de façon bilipschitzienne, en tant qu’espace métrique, dans $({ℝ}^4,g_0)$. Ce théorème du à Bonk, Heinonen et Saksman découle d’un résultat lié au problème du jacobien quasiconforme.

We show global existence and convergence results for the pluriclosed flow on manifolds for which certain naturally associated tensor bundles are globally generated.

The aim of the present work is to present a geometric formulation of higher order variational problems on arbitrary fibred manifolds. The problems of Engineering and Mathematical Physics whose natural formulation requires the use of second order differential invariants are classic, but it has been the recent advances in the theory of integrable non-linear partial differential equations and the consideration in Geometry of invariants of increasingly higher orders that has highlighted the interest...

The solution manifold M of the equation ⎯φ + gφ3 = 0 in Minkowski space is studied from the standpoint of the establishment of differential-geometric structures therein. It is shown that there is an almost Kähler structure globally defined on M that is Poincaré invariant. In the vanishing curvature case g = 0 the structure obtained coincides with the complex Hilbert structure in the solution manifold of the real wave equation. The proofs are based on the transfer of the equation to an ambient universal...

Let $S$ be a Riemann surface. Let ${ℍ}^3$ be the $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space and let ${\partial }_{\infty }{ℍ}^3$ be its ideal boundary. In our context, a Plateau problem is a locally holomorphic mapping $\varphi :S\to {\partial }_{\infty }{ℍ}^3=\widehat{ℂ}$. If $i:S\to {ℍ}^3$ is a convex immersion, and if $N$ is its exterior normal vector field, we define the Gauss lifting, $\widehat{ı}$, of $i$ by $\widehat{ı}=N$. Let $\overrightarrow{n}:U{ℍ}^3\to {\partial }_{\infty }{ℍ}^3$ be the Gauss-Minkowski mapping. A solution to the Plateau problem $(S,\varphi )$ is a convex immersion $i$ of constant Gaussian curvature equal to $k\in (0,1)$ such that the Gauss lifting $(S,\widehat{ı})$ is complete and $\overrightarrow{n}\circ \widehat{ı}=\varphi$. In this paper, we show...

In this paper we present recent results concerning the Lichnerowicz-Poisson cohomology and the canonical homology of Poisson manifolds.

Let $X$ be a complex manifold with strongly pseudoconvex boundary $M$. If $\psi$ is a defining function for $M$, then $-log\psi$ is plurisubharmonic on a neighborhood of $M$ in $X$, and the (real) 2-form $\sigma =i\partial \overline{\partial }(-log\psi )$ is a symplectic structure on the complement of $M$ in a neighborhood of $M$ in $X$; it blows up along $M$. The Poisson structure obtained by inverting $\sigma$ extends smoothly across $M$ and determines a contact structure on $M$ which is the same as the one induced by the complex structure. When $M$ is compact, the Poisson structure near...

As a generalization of Postnikov’s construction [P], we define a map from the space of edge weights of a directed network in an annulus into a space of loops in the Grassmannian. We then show that universal Poisson brackets introduced for the space of edge weights in [GSV3] induce a family of Poisson structures on rational matrix-valued functions and on the space of loops in the Grassmannian. In the former case, this family includes, for a particular kind of networks, the Poisson bracket associated...

Examples of Poisson structures with isolated non-symplectic points are constructed from classical r-matrices.